Special Interest Groups
Nineteen of them, from Legal and Minerals and Energy to Clay Shooting, Club Chorale and Mahjong. Each is run by a member who volunteers as convenor, and most bring in a guest speaker from time to time. Members join as many as they like.
Club Table
Every Thursday a member of the Principal Committee hosts lunch at the Club Table, alongside a group convenor or someone from the Membership Sub-Committee. Turn up on your own and you will not eat on your own. New members are invited as a matter of course.
Signature Events
The President’s Dinner, the At Home, the Business Series, the Melbourne Cup Luncheon, and the Members and Daughters and Members and Sons dinners, plus Christmas and Easter.
A Word from our Head Sommelier
In Portugal, my grandfather kept six bottles and considered himself a wealthy man. Here I have rather more to look after.
People ask me how I choose. I am not buying for tonight. I am buying for a Tuesday ten years from now, for a Member who has perhaps not joined us yet. And I do not buy labels. A famous name in a poor year is still a poor year.
What I enjoy most is when a Member comes down and tells me what the evening is. An anniversary. A deal finally signed. A friend out from London who thinks he knows wine. Then we find the bottle together.
A cellar that is only admired is a sad cellar. Wine is made to be opened.
— Joao, Head Sommelier
Upcoming Cellar Events
Upcoming Events What is coming up across the groups and the Club’s own calendar.
