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December 2017
Summer Wine Tasting 9th December 3-5 pm at Rewine.
$20
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I've had so many requests that we are going to do one last tasting for the year. Like the previous two, we're going to just have some fun with Summer wine. And it would be nice to see everyone again before it gets super busy. Summer Wines The honest truth is that so many people have air conditioning now that you can drink a Barossa red in the height of summer. But, the food we eat does tend to change.…
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Sparkling Wine and Cheese For Valentines Day @ Richmond Hill Cafe and Larder 14th February 6.30pm
$70
Valentines day is about romance; finding the one and celebrating that union. And let us face the facts, Champagne and Brillat Savagnin is a great union that we should all celebrate at least once a year. But what do you pair with Prosecco? Or Moscato? Or anything fizzy for that matter? Let's find out by sharing six wine and cheese matches. Wine and Cheese with the experts Celia and Blake from the Richmond Hill and I (Phil the Wine Guy)…
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Pinot Noir At Spencer and Co 18th April 6.30-8pm. $26.35 per head
$26.35
Join me for a casual tasting. Six Pinots Noir with complementary food at Spencer and Co in North Carlton. Compare and contrast six Pinots The distinctively different styles and regions will give you a great insight into the grape. We’ll look at some unmissable Australian Pinots with excellent examples from other countries including New Zealand, and Burgundy from France (of course!). I don’t need to tell you Pinot Noir is the greatest grape variety on earth but there are 100s,…
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Australian Wine Month @ Beneath Driver Lane 12th May 2-4pm
$20
May is Australian Wine Month; where we celebrate Australian wine. To be fair, I think most of us drink Australian wine every month. As is tradition, we will dig a little deeper and look at three wineries from three classic regions that show three distinct personalities of Australian wine. We will meet up at Beneath Driver Lane with three producers who are making great wine. The Producers Yelland & Papps – Barossa Valley It is a story about new beginnings;…
Find out more »July 2018
Winter Wines at ReWine Brunswick 19th July 6.30pm
$30
Hail to those of you who drink in the seasons. Winter isn’t so bad if you embrace it rather than reject it, pining for the warm days. And what would you do with an endless summer anyway? Complain? Worse still, you’d never find a time to drink the great winter wines of the world. Full bodied, oozing with flavour, brimming with vitality and richly seeping to every corner of your mouth. Winter stews, roast meats, bold flavours. An epic Clash…
Find out more »October 2018
Super Tuscan Wine Dinner at Spencer and Co 3rd October 2018
$200
The Super Tuscans It is time to share some more great wine. This time I keen to look at some more of Italy’s best work. Since their release, the Super Tuscan wines have represented some of the best wines in Italy and the whole world. The term "Super Tuscan" was coined to define the new wave of wines from Tuscany. Rebelling against the constrictive laws of the time, these wine makers moved away from the ‘boring’ to make thrilling and…
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Cheese and Wine Event: Burgundy To Bordeaux at Richmond Hill Cafe and Larder 13th November 2018
$100
BOOK YOUR TICKETS Burgundy to Bordeaux. We are going back to Richmond Hill for our semi-regular cheese and wine pairing nights. Our theme this time around is: Burgundy To Bordeaux. Partly to celebrate my trip next year but mostly just to enjoy some great food and wine. Burgundy The pinnacle of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The work the Cistercian monks did to divide up the land into individual parcels and then rank them by quality is still used today. And…
Find out more »Sud-Ouest The Classic Wines of South West France
$50
Sud-Ouest or the South West France is a wine area covering several wine producing regions situated to the South and inland from Bordeaux. These regions have a total of 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres) of vineyards in several discontinuous wine “islands” throughout the Aquitaine region (where Bordeaux region itself is situated). Lack of one central governing body, a fruit salad of weird and wonderful grape varieties and wines style probably holds these wines back from the mainstream market. But when you find…
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Phil’s Favourite Wines of 2018 @ Beneath Driver Lane 1st December
$40.00
BOOK YOUR TICKETS Over the course of a year I try a lot of wines (lots and lots). Mostly they are good wines, very few bad wines (thankfully) and occasionally they are outstanding wines. You only hear about a very small percentage of them because most of the time I am tasting with an objective in mind. Often there are lovely wines that I really enjoy drinking but I don’t have room/purpose/customers for it at that time. The very best…
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Wine & Cheese Italy vs Spain @ Spencer & Co 13th March 2019
$65
Italy vs Spain. Wine vs Wine. Cheese vs Cheese. The Spaniards drink more but who does it better? Both Italy and Spain have the European “drink with food” culture. Spain drinks quite a lot more because alcohol is more tolerated. Spain = 11.2 litres per capita per year - pretty typical of Europe (eg UK is 11.6) Italy = 6.9 litres per capita per year - the lowest in Europe (this might be related to ‘bella figura’ - both in…
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