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24.01.2022 Some days are better than others! A zoom tasting with @aurelie_domaine_geschickt of new releases they sent us to try last week (the 2020 obi-wine pet-nat was only disgorged by Arnaud 2 weeks ago). It’s so, so long since we’ve tasted wines in a cellar in France and talked with producers about new cuvées! This was the next best thing. Then these special sausages made by @analiesegregory from the blood and offal from her two pigs she home-killed the day before. It was a privile...ge to eat them, knowing how stressful and intense everything leading to the fact they existed was. Plus @tmchugos at home, which is always a treat. This bottle is the only bottle of Beetle Juice in Australia at the moment, the first commercial results of a 15 year agri-forestry program at Geschickt where each year they plant a whole lot of trees in and around their vineyards. It’s made with 300kg of cherries (a big red cherry variety called Coeur de Pigeon) from cherry trees they planted, hand picked in 2020, foot-pressed, and the juice added to some 2019 Gewertztraminer from their Kaefferkopf Grand Cru vineyard, the same place as where the cherries grew. It’s sensational and set the minds of two chef friends @analiesegregory and @kobi_ruz who joined us for the tasting into overdrive about what it can match with (many things including these sausages). Actually all the wines had them thinking about gastronomic matchings. When they arrive in Australia we are hoping there will be a Kobi and AG dinner at @diermakr to show them off. If it happens it will be very special. The idea for their brilliant truffle dinners last year was seeded at this table. Here’s hoping this one comes to fruition later in 2021. .. #geschickt #tasmania See more

14.01.2022 The menu at @zunicafe on 4 November 2008, the night Obama was elected for the first time - the capital O in ‘electiOn’ discreetly celebrating what was happening. Political tragics to the end it was a deliberate decision for us to be in the US for that particular election night and we will never forget the euphoria. The moment we remember most was hours later in a bus on Market St returning to our hotel and overhearing a young woman say to a friend I don’t feel dirty anymore..., shedding, at least for that moment, the memory of Iraq, Guantanomo Bay, waterboarding and the rest of Bush’s legacy. We can only imagine what Americans are feeling as you wake this morning knowing you are wresting your country back from the lies and chaos of the last four years which took you and the rest of us to the brink. A big thank you to everyone who voted to end this. It matters for the planet, not just for you and your country. Take a deep breath and feel a moment of light. We are grateful.

14.01.2022 So interesting. A bottle of the 2013 vintage of Axel Prufer’s Fou du Roi. Not a wine we deliberately aged or one we would recommend others age. Just a sequence of events that led to it not being drunk until now. The storage has not been perfect - it came back to us as part of a box where one bottle had broken so has spent some time in the wild in the custody of Fastway - probably in 2015 - and then has been in home storage - in a space which has variable temperature but never... too hot and never too cold. Even so, the difference between extremes of the temperature variation is probably at least 15 between winter and summer so not ideal. But despite all that the wine is pristine - not better than if it had been drunk a year or two after bottling (there was no need to age it) but not in any way damaged. Most of the explanation may be in the slight pop from the release of residual carbon dioxide captured from the fermentation process when the cork was pulled. Finishing it tonight (it was opened yesterday) there was still noticeable CO2 when removing the cork (that slight pop is a noise that gives the same pleasure as music). Anyway this wine with no added sulphites, no wood aging to help out with a few more tannins (100% fibreglass carbonic maceration) clearly survived well and 6 years after bottling was still very much alive. Thank you Axel - looking forward to the 2019 vintage arriving this week. See more

03.01.2022 For some reason blue sky goes with pink things, including these two recent arrivals. From the Jura, Domaine de la Loue’s 2018 rosé pét-nat’, made with Pinot Noir, is a picnic-friendly 9% alcohol. And the 2019 Geschickt Phénix, from Alsace, is macerated Pinot Gris (one month of maceration then a short aging in stainless steel). It’s an orange wine but because there is so much colour in the skins of Pinot Gris it tends more to pink, as reflected in the colours of the super-cute mythological phénix (aka as phoenix) on the label. Thirst quenching enough to be a wedge wine, with pomegranate-like acidity, it also goes very well with blue sky.

02.01.2022 As glorious as the view!