Wine tasting

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Munskänkarna means cupbearer (an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household).

Munskänkarna is the largest wine tasting society in the world. It has more than 20 000 members. A few hundred members are spread all over the world outside Sweden. Munskänkarna's aim is to nourish the wine culture, spread the knowledge of the wine and wine making and take active part in the wine debate. It is a non-profit organization.

to broaden recognition and knowledge about wine and other nobel beverages
to work for good and moderate drinking habits.
to promote studies and education by:

arranging wine tastings
giving lectures
having seminairs
arranging courses

to collect litterature on the subject
to produce a member newspaper and a home page (only in Swedish)
to give possibility to pass different grades in wine knowledge
to evaluate travels of interest to different countries
to create and maintain contacts with producers and other wine organizations

The society is divided in regions and sections. Sections can be founded in a place where there are enough members to maintain the activity set by the Munskänkarna. Sections in a certain aerea together form a region. Sections can be formed in an other country than Sweden. The leader of the section is choosen by the members of the section.

Our section in Härnösand has around 120 members. I was one of the founders of our section in 1990.