As part of our Vocational activity we were delighted to have two local business people speak at our dinner meeting on Tuesday 3 March.
Our Vocational Director, Brynton Fennell, was the Chair for the evening.
Our guests were Chris Bradley from the Mt Eliza Pharmacy and Marcus Tacon from Mt Eliza Fine Wine Merchants.
Originally from Deniliquin in NSW Chris Bradley studied at Sydney University before moving to Victoria. After a spell in Maryborough, Chris has spend the last 30 years working and living in Mt Eliza.
Chris spoke about the expanding role of community pharmacies and how patients now visit pharmacies for advice, diagnosis of common ailment, vaccinations and treatments. Local or community pharmacists work closely with local GPs to ensure quality health care.
There are over 5000 community pharmacies in Victoria.
In Mt Eliza Chris runs two local pharmacies in conjunction with several other younger pharmacists with interesting and diverse backgrounds.
Marcus spoke about Fine Wine Mercahant which is a specialist fine wine retail business that provides collectors and consumers access to great wines from Australia and around the world.
While there are a number of wine shops in Mt Eliza, the Fine Wine Merchant offers wines that are generally not available in local bottle shops.
About 20% of the wine on offer is common to other outlets, however the vast majority of the wines on offer are not available elsewhere in the district.
The Fine Wine Merchant does have a number of less expensive wines with the lowest price being around $9 per bottle. Their most expensive wine sells for $5000 per bottle.
Their most popular wine is Pinot Noir.
The business has a broad range of Australian and International quality wines.
A number of celebrities, politicians and other well known personalities are customers of the business.
Marcus and his partners have a close relationship with Ritchies IGA and they often refer customers to each other.
Members enjoyed the presentations of both Chris and Marcus and President Ross suggested that they would both make great Rotarians.
A very fit looking Brynton, Chris Bradley & Marcus Tacon
