Laupäeval, 8. märtsil toimusid Haapsalu Raudteejaamas XI Eesti lahtised meistrivõistlused viskitundmises, millele registreerus 8 võistkonda erinevatest Eesti paikadest ja valdkondadest.
Võitjaks tuli suure edumaaga juba kolmandat aastat järjest Põltsamaa Viskiklubi koosseisus Andres Kert, David Schreyer ja Guido Pook. Teise koha saavutas Tallinna Viskiklubi ning kolmandaks jäi Lõuna-Eesti viskiklubi võistkond.
Võistluste žürii esimehe ja Viskiklubi UBC presidendi Toomas Tiiveli sõnul nõuab võistlus osalejatelt täpseid teadmisi viski erinevate päritolumaade ja valmistamisomaduste kohta. Suuremat rõhku pööratakse sealjuures Šoti viski ja kultuuri tundmisele.
“Lisaks viskit puudutavatele küsimustele panime osalejate teadmised proovile Šotimaast, selle ajaloost, kultuurist kui ka hetkepoliitikast. Õnneks on meistrivõistluste tase Eestis aastatega aina kõrgemaks muutunud ning huviliste teadmised viskikultuuri ja -tootmise kohta järjest kasvanud. Põltsamaa Viskiklubi oli nii Šoti kultuuri kui viskitundise koha pealt head kodutööd teinud ja see tõi neile juba mitmedat aastat järjest võidu,” sõnas Tiivel.
Võistluse korraldaja ja Šotimaa Sõprade Klubi liige Mari Mandre lisas, et tänavuse viskivõistluse muutis eriliseks ennekõike selle toimumiskoht – Haapsalu ajalooline jaamahoone.
“Idee selleks tuli Haapsalu linnapealt Urmas Sukleselt ning võeti Šoti Klubi poolt tänuga vastu. Neil päevil toimusid Haapsalus Šoti pidustused, mis tõid linna palju Šotimaa kui ka viskihuvilisi, viskivõistlus sobis sellesse konteksti suurepäraselt. Esmakordselt osales võistlusel Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor, mis tõestab, et huvi viskikultuuri vastu Eestis on jõuliselt väljumas kitsast fanaatikute ringist,” rääkis Mandre.
XI Eesti lahtiseid meistrivõistlusi viskitundmises korraldas Šotimaa Sõprade Klubi koostöös maaletoojatega Pernod Ricard Estonia, Prike ja Tridens.
Traditsiooniks saanud võistlust peetakse kahes voorus: esmalt küsitakse võistlejatelt teoreetilisi küsimusi viski tootmispiirkondade ja -kultuuri kohta, mille järel asutakse praktikale ehk pimedegusteerimisele.
Ürituse eesmärk on arendada viskikultuuri Eestis ning anda võimalus sarnase suunitlusega klubidel üle Eesti vähemalt kord aastas kokku tulla ning jõudu katsuda.
Šotimaa Sõprade Klubi ehk Šoti Klubi tähistab sel aastal oma 21. aastapäeva, seistes hea Šoti kultuuri, traditsioonide ning viski kui osa selle iidse kultuuripärandi hoidmise eest Eestis.
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Yay for July babies! My LO was born July 22nd last year, on her due date. We did her nrerusy based on my big love of pigs and her name, Rose. Pigs and flowers. If it were a boy I was planning on doing pigs anyway, but more colorful instead of pink. We’re going team green for the next one and my plan is to do an ugly doll theme.
Our baby is due in early June and we have not started on the nerusry yet. This weekend we plan to clean out the room that will be the nerusry, so that’s a start! The theme will be a sort of fairytale library – lots of books, and the ceiling will be painted with clouds and some stars (my mom is an artist who will paint the ceiling). There will be a very art deco stenciled moon and stars border, and some little fairies hanging from the ceiling by in invisible wire. LO is a girl, and we did not… Loe rohkem »
OK, if this seminar was inndteed as the introduction to the semester, then I agree that it’s strange to combine that with a meeting about women’s issues. In that case, I think they should probably have had two different meetings, shouldn’t they? But the seminar is still called “connections with women” for a reason, right? And don’t the invited speakers talk about their own work, as well? Or do they only give an overview of general topics?I was imagining a seminar where women talk about the work that they do – not an overview of the “accomplishments of women”, the… Loe rohkem »
Hi Katya, good to hear from you. the women who aren’t happy to have so few women in the department would presamubly be that much more likely to leave to do other things.Well, one of the panelists told us that she rejected her first offer because she would be the first woman in that department, and she had suspected that they were interested not in her personally but jut in hiring a woman to improve their statistics. I was tempted to point out that if such a behavior were common, such departments would not have a chance to change their… Loe rohkem »
Наташа & Katya, now I am really csunfoed about the language to use when talking to both of you. A nice discussion! I am glad Katya raised one issue I was going to raise too, viz. “where did all these girls who were great at mathematics in school [and let me add, in their undergrad and graduate studies] disappear to?” Well, I am not sure I am totally convinced by Natasha’s reply to this. Here at MSRI they worry about this issue, and here is the statistics that bothers them: among math Ph.D’s in the US, women constitute about 30%.… Loe rohkem »
It sounds to me like the crrneut situation in most math departments is likely to select for women who don’t mind or even prefer to be in the minority – the women who aren’t happy to have so few women in the department would presumably be that much more likely to leave to do other things. And it seems from the comments people made at the panel that events like this can help to keep those women from leaving for reasons that have nothing to do with their abilities in math, and to attract other women who might otherwise be… Loe rohkem »
One of the panelists told us that she rjeected her first offer because she would be the first woman in that department, and she had suspected that they were interested not in her personally but jut in hiring a woman to improve their statistics.I can’t quite tell agreeing with me or disagreeing with me with this example, but I agree with you that this can be a disturbing trend, too, and can make it that much harder for math departments to hire women. I admit that I was thinking more in terms of female graduate students who might decide to… Loe rohkem »
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