Hunter Valley Semillon is a personal favourite wine of mine, I think it is a world class style that doesn’t get nearly enough recognition. I was excited to be able to attend this recent tasting with a regular tasting group, focussing on Australian Semillon. As usual there were some wild cards thrown in to the […]
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I had a couple of days free in Toronto recently and I wanted to visit a number of restaurants and bars with a good selection of local Canadian wines to try by the glass. I quickly generated a shortlist and one of the places that came out near the top was Enoteca Sociale. While they […]
This event put on by the Australian importer a couple of months ago was a great opportunity to try the range of wines from this producer. It is evident that Bernstein has lofty ambitions, and the prices are extremely ambitious already to match. There are some excellent wines here and clearly some high quality vineyard […]
This huge blind tasting was put on by a single member of a tasting group where I have just joined this year. Going into the tasting we had no information other than we were about to be served a large number of flights of red wine. As we went along, some information did trickle out, […]
Dinner at the 3* Michelin Caprice in the Four Seasons, Hong Kong. This was actually mid last year, but I’ve never been especially happy with the photos. I’m posting to clear the slate so I can post some reviews from Canada and France, hopefully the standard has remained high in the year past. This meal […]
A few brief notes from a recent unexpected one night stopover in Los Angeles. N.V. Krug Champagne Grande Cuvée Brut – Champagne, France The first bottle was a bit flat on the palate so a second was opened and it was much better. Vanilla, apple, ginger and pine nuts on the nose. Power and precision […]
The final night of our (not so recent) stay in Hong Kong was at the newly opened Ritz Carlton. Tin Lung Heen was not full on the night we were there but I understand it is now exceptionally busy, especially for lunch. The view from Tin Lung Heen is very impressive, although it is out […]
Dinner at Tetsuya Wakuda’s fairly new venture “Waku Ghin” in Singapore. There are two seatings per night and the first must have been running late as there was a 10-15 minute wait at the bar. The restaurant is divided into a series of rooms each with seats at a counter and large teppan. The majority […]
Lunch at the Cantonese restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Central, Hong Kong. This restaurant was highly recommended on various forums/blogs and it was indeed very good, but also relatively expensive. We arrived slightly early and were invited to wait at the bar outside. The bar has a great view of the harbour from […]
Lunch at Robuchon a Galera in the Hotel Lisboa, Macau. The food was outrageously good. The presence of gold leaf on almost everything was pointless but didn’t detract from the meal. Loved that the wine list comes either as a massive leather bound 300+ page tome or on a somewhat more modern ipad with searchable […]