Wine Lounge opens in the Tanglin Club, Singapore, and The Affordable Wine Section - What's In It for you?

 White wine by the glass and the new wine menu at the Lounge bar. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

What do you do with an empty space, a tea lounge which has no customers after 6 pm? Convert it into a wine lounge. The Tanglin Club already has a bar in the Tavern restaurant where you can perch on bar stools before a sit down dinner. The wine lounge is a good place to go if you are waiting for a table in the Tavern.  Or don't like bar stools.

The Wine Lounge is closed Monday and Tuesday. Open Wednesday to Sunday. The menu shows lots of wines by the glass including the Prosecco which I had. Cold cuts (meat) and cheese platters can be ordered to go with the wine.

Angela Lansbury,wearing grape and wine theme blouse, enjoying the white wine she chose to buy, plus anjoying the free cashew and mixed nuts provided to celebrate the opening of  the new Wine Lounge, evenings Wednesday to Sunday at the Tanglin Club in Singapore. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

My husband and I were able to promote TAWS, The Affordable Wine Section, which meets in the club for a wine dinner once a month. You pay a year's membership (as well as your monthly fee the club if you are a member, and get free leftover drinks at the end of the year party. You can invite guests who have to pay a bit more as they are not paying the wine section member ship fee, which is used to buy the wines for the wine dinners in advance of receiving the payments for those signing up to attend. If you are a member of one of many clubs worlwide which have a reciprocal arrangement with the Tanglin club, you can arrange to attend by getting a letter of introduction emailed, and/or by finding a friend who is a member of the club.

We were members of the club for twenty years and never made any friends. I used to go to the bridge club where you sat in silence playing cards. However, after joining some of the sub-groups and finding people with common interests, we started making friends. It also helps to get on a committee since you are in regular touch with minor queries. The same as in Toastmasters International Clubs. 

Useful Websites

https://www.tanglinclub.org/

https://www.tanglinclub.org/dining/tea-room.html

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Tanglin Club Taws Wine Dinner With Bottles Bearing Artistic Labels

 The Tanglin Club offers members and guests two wine clubs which organize dinner on a regular basis. The more expensive wine club offers better, more expensive wines. 

The Affordable wine club offers wine dinners with cheaper wines at an affordable price. We have been to both.

In April 2023 the TAWS (The Affordable Wine Society) offered a buffet dinner featuring four wines from Australia's Margaret River. The Margaret River is on the west coast of Australia, you would fly into Perth as we did a couple of times.

The feature of the bottles of this wine company, Leeuwin Estate, is the labels showing different colourful works of art. Inspired, yes, you might have guessed, by the Rothschild Wine bottles.

(The Rothschild wine bottles had famous artists such as Picasso and Salvador Dali designing their labels.)

The TAWS society is run by a committee. On the evening they are aided by the knowledgeable Rose of the Tanglin Club who is studying for a qualification from WSET. I took level one. She is two levels above me, a bright jolly young woman.

Art Series bottles from Leeuwin Estate.  Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Useful Websites

https://www.tanglinclub.org.sg/

https://www.tanglinclub.org.sg/dining.html

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