Welcome to the Lake Tahoe Branch


Wine and Food Society Website!

The mission of the International Wine and Food Society is to bring together men and women whose goal is to promote critical understanding and intelligent enjoyment of wine and to encourage and sustain creative preparation of food and its discriminating consumption within one's community. Our Society in the Americas consists of Branches that have many differences in composition, as to numbers as well as memberships, and each branch exercises independence in the way it operates. Yet we create a sense of unity and fellowship that is the envy of many other societies


Officers & Directors

President:   Jim Clark
Immediate past president:   Mike Chamberlain
Vice President-Functions   Janet Pahl
Secretary   Sara Lafrance
Membership Chair   Julie Rauchle
Treasurer   Dennis Haney
Co-Treasurer   Leonard Lafrance
Historian   Richard Mehl
IW&FS Liaison   Ananth Natarajan
Wine Director Chair of the Wine Committee   Claire (Sudsy) Torbeck
Emeritus Cellar Master   Warren Kocmond

Wine Committee

Dan Torbeck  
Walter Binder