The focus of this year’s efforts of the Rotarian’s Wine Appreciation Fellowship will be three-fold. First, as always, we will attempt to disseminate as much information about wine, wine and food pairings and other wine related topics as we can so that our own appreciation of good wine and food will be enhanced. Second, we will encourage more active participation by all members in the Fellowship. Third, we intend to host a fun event at the RI International Convention.

Specifically our goals for the year are:

1. Publish at least 4 newsletters. These will be sent to all current members for whom we have correct email addresses. Please inform us of any changes in your contact information. We will send back issues upon request. A concerted effort will be made to keep our membership list current but we need your help. 
2. Maintain and update our website (www.rotarywine.net). The International Fellowship of Digital Technology Rotarians provide ongoing advice. We encourage members to send us articles, comments, announcements of upcoming events, stories of event successes and any other information that would be of interest to our membership. We will post these on the website and/or include them in the newsletters. 
3. Host a RWAF booth at the annual Rotary International Convention. 
4. Plan a wine dinner party some time during the convention. Annual wine dinners have been well attended and  a lot of fun. We are investigating the possibility of a cruise similar to the very successful one we did at the Brisbane convention.
5. Organize at least one wine tour during the year and possibly one after the convention. Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
6. Increase our membership. All of us know at least several Rotarians that would enjoy being members of our Fellowship. Our booth at the RI convention has been very successful in bringing in new members. We also receive many letters of interest to which we respond.
7. Encourage members to form local chapters that meet several times during the year for fun and fellowship. These local chapters are encouraged to accomplish service projects as another way to extend our Rotary service. Periodically we have very successful universal Fellowship projects that all individual members and/or local chapters can be involved. 
8. Prepare and publish an annual financial statement and adhere to all the rules and regulations that Rotary expects of all Fellowships. 
9. Provide value for our membership dues. By the end of this year we hope every member will have learned a little more about wine appreciation and will feel that belonging to the RWAF has been worthwhile.

10. Have fun. Learning more about any hobby or personal interest should always be fun but enjoying a good glass of wine over a good meal with family and friends and knowing more about what made this particular pairing of food, wine, people and setting so special can be memorable. Whenever we mention the Wine Appreciation Fellowship we see smiles and it seems that wine appreciation provides a common language among Rotarians.