Vintners Club

“For the period january 1 through december 31, 2024, the organization paid 2,556 per month to its vice-president for rental of: - one furnished executive office space, including utilities; - one unfurnished executive office space, including utilities; - multiple rooms for storage of thousands of wine glasses, stemware racks, wine-tasting and bottle-opening equipment, linens needed for conducting sit-down wine tastings, storage cabinets, large hand-trucks, and numerous boxes of the organizations's historical records, files, treatises and books. These items were donated to the salvation army and to goodwill in november-december 2024. In 2024, the organization's vice-president received a total of 30,680for rents.”

“Expenses office expenses & supplies 478 4,163 board meetings 1,044 telephone 295 event expenses 3,314 business promotion 647 automobile expenses 157 tolls 35 bank & credit card charge 13 annual fees & taxes 50 equipment repairs 802 donation of inventory 2,800 total 13,798”

“Inventories for sale or use 2,700 0 machinery & equipment 20,030 0 less accumulated depreciation 20,030 0 total 2,700 0”

“Conducting wine tastings and wine-related education, including, but not limited to, conducting tastings of rare and exceptional wines in "blind" conditions, providing scholarships to students for said tastings, publishing the results of said tastings, and conducting wine-related education with field trips to various viticultural regions, both domestic and international, for enhanced learning about terroir, viticulture and enology.”

“Conducting wine tastings and publishing the results. During year 2024 we held 2 in-person tastings of rare and exceptional wines. All of these tastings focused on some of the most rare and exceptional wines in the world.”