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Sidebar Wine Store and Bar

Locality: Sandringham, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9521 9410

Address: 39 Melrose Street 3191 Sandringham, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.sidebarwine.com

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24.01.2022 SIDEBAR WINE PROCUREMENT AND CELLAR MANAGEMENT Starting, maintaining and managing your cellar can take a lot of time and effort. Let us do the hard work for you. Our in house Sommelier and manager, Rod Morris has over 20 years experience working for some of Melbourne’s best establishments and has helped design and create wine lists from the small to the large (in excess of 1100 products). At Sidebar, wine is a part of our every day life and we wish to extend our knowledg...e to help you get the very best from your wines at home. Offering expert advice, competitive pricing and a personalised approach to your cellar we have access to wines that are often not found in retail from the boutique to the weird and wonderful varieties you may not have heard of. We will also take care of your cellar management with each wine catalogued with suggested cellaring time. Contact us now on [email protected] or call on 03 9521 9410 for more information. We look forward to taking this wine journey with you. See more

23.01.2022 LET US COOK LUNCH OR DINNER FOR YOU!!! HANDMADE PASTA COOKED TO ORDER FOR PICK UP!! Drop in and pick up a freshly cooked handmade pasta or give us a call on 9521 9410 to pre order. Ready in under 10 minutes and absolutely delicious and just $15 per serve. Available from 12pm - 8pm everyday.... HANDMADE GRANA PADANO AND PARMESAN GNOCCHI HAND ROLLED EGG FETTUCCINE SERVED WITH A CHOICE OF WILD MUSHROOM, BOLOGNESE OR AMATRICIANA SAUCE.

21.01.2022 A TASTE OF VENETO WITH THESE NEW ADDITIONS TO THE SIDEBAR WINE LIST 2017 BASTIANICH 'VINI ORSONE' RIBOLLA GIALLA and 2018 I CASTIE 'CAMPO DEL BIOTTO' VALPOLICELLA The Bastianich winery dates back to 1997. Its founders, Joe and Lydia Bastianic, are known throughout the world as the leading culinary shows, restaurateurs and authors of a number of popular books. ... The wine has a gentle, expressive fruity shades, with white flowers and light mineral haze. The Bastianich has a pleasant, refined taste, demonstrating a good balance of freshness and fruity. The aftertaste is long, with mineral accents. The CASTELLANI MICHELE estate consists of about 40 hectares of directly owned or grown vineyards situated in the hillside area of the Valpolicella Classica. Both the new vineyard and the well renowned ones at Ca'del Pipa and Castei, in the heart of Valpolicella Classica. The nose opens with intense Morello and bing cherry with soft, savoury spice. It leans to the lighter side of mid-weight with plush, spicy red fruits and savoury herbs and spice nuances. Bright and crunchy with a nice bitter clip at the end.

18.01.2022 Measuring out our new outdoor space before we reopen tomorrow!

16.01.2022 FATHER'S DAY Not sure what to get your Father, Husband, Significant other for Father's Day. Why not let them decide and buy them a Sidebar Wine Store and Bar Gift Voucher. Can be used for any purchase and is valid for 3 years. Perfect for buying wine for home, starting a cellar or after the restrictions are lifted and they can enjoy the Sidebar experience once again!!! https://shop.sidebarwine.com/collections/gift-packs

15.01.2022 Some exciting developments on Melrose Street!!! We look forward to welcoming everyone back to Sidebar for food and drinks from Melbourne Cup Day, Tuesday 3rd November! We cannot wait share our new and expanded outdoor dining area. Be sure to also try out our new Spring inspired wine and cocktail list. ... Reservations are highly recommended. Follow the link below. https://www.sidebarwine.com/reservations

14.01.2022 We are very excited to be included in the Good Food section of The Age today with 15 other amazing bars and restaurants written by Dani Valent!!! Sidebar Opposite Sandringham Station, this amaro-obsessed wine bar is building decking in car spaces, taking outdoor capacity to about 36. Chef Joe Grbac (ex-Saxe) is doing the food, with squid ink angel hair pasta marinara feeling like a summer-ready winner. The Sandy drink of the season is the Chinato Solstice made with grower ch...ampagne, aromatised barolo, orange and rosemary. 39 Melrose Street, Sandringham, sidebarwine.com

14.01.2022 CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL GRENACHE DAY To celebrate International Grenache Day at Sidebar Wine we are offering 15% off our selection of our Grenache based wines for the entire weekend. You can purchase in store or from our online store. Grenache is a variety that deserves more recognition, particularly in these times of climate change. It revels in heat and is a very hardy and sustainable grape. Originating most likely in Spain it is grown all over the world and is third beh...ind Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in production. We have 7 wines on hand to pique your interest. 2018 Chateau Mont Redon Grenache Blanc, Cote du Rhone, France $22.95 2019 Chateau Riotor Rosé, Provence, France $26.35 2018 Domaine du Gro Noré Rosé, Bandol, France $56.1 2019 Ricca Terra 'Soldiers Land' Grenache, Riverland, South Australia 2018 iToma! Tinto Tempranillo Garnacha, Navarra, Spain $18.70 2017 Chateau Mont Redon 'Reserve' Rouge, Cotes Du Rhone, France $21.25 2017 Chateau Mont Redon Chateauneuf du Pape, Cotes $88.40 https://shop.sidebarwine.com/

12.01.2022 You can't dine (or wine in) but you can dine in, at home. Sidebar is open for takeaway, Tuesdays to Sundays from 12pm. Try a Sidebar favourite - our Handmade Gnocchi with Wild Mushroom, Bolognese or Amatriciana by Joe Grbac from "one hatted" Saxe in Melbourne’s CBD. Call 9521 9410 ahead to order. Your food can be ready in as little as 10-15 minutes. ... Pair our Handmade Gnocchi with one of our Reds, White or Rose. Red: Fletcher minion Nebbiolo 2019 - $37 Camporsino Chianti 2018 - $25 Tenuta Montanello 2017 Barbera d’Alba - $40 White: Journey Fiano 2019 - $28 Rosé Chateau Riotor Rosé 2019 - Côtes de Provence -$31 #sidebarwine See more

11.01.2022 STAGE 4 RESTRICTIONS OFFER We are still open and attending to your wine needs everyday during Stage 4 Restrictions. For the rest of this week we are offering free delivery to Bayside on any order and applying a 15% discount across all our products with the exception of our Special Case Deals. Simply go to https://shop.sidebarwine.com/ and enter in discount code Stage4 at checkout or drop in to the store and let us help you make a selection from our diverse range of wines and cocktails. With Father's Day just around the corner this is a great opportunity to buy him something special!!!

10.01.2022 What do you give someone while in lockdown 2.0 and loves wine and quality food? Hint, hint. A Sidebar gift voucher. We now have gift vouchers available. Call 9521 9410 to arrange a gift card.

10.01.2022 SIDEBAR REOPENING!!! We are very excited to be able to welcome you back to Sidebar from Tuesday 3rd of November. We will be open Tuesday to Sunday from 12 till late for Dining and Drinking. Reservations are now open online via the Facebook link or from our website. Obviously bookings are restricted for the time being with limited numbers and a 2 hour time limit. There is a waiting list option if you can not make a booking for your preferred date or time. If you wish to b...ook for a party of more than 8 please contact us directly. We have a new Spring menu and wine list on offer and we can not wait to see everyone enjoying the 'Sidebar Experience' once again. We appreciate all the support we have had during this long and arduous lockdown and hope you have all stayed safe.

10.01.2022 INTERNATIONAL NEGRONI WEEK!! It's International Negroni week and we are celebrating here at Sidebar with our take away range of Negronis for only $10 to go along side our $10 Aperol Spritz!!! Usually held in June, but due to Covid 19 has been delayed until now which we think is perfect as sunshine and a Negroni work hand in hand. It is all the bitterness you should have during Melbourne's lockdown!!!

08.01.2022 FATHER'S DAY GIFT PACKS Treat your dad, husband, or significant other to something special this Father's Day and buy them a gift pack from Sidebar Wine. Choose from one of our Standard or Premium gift packs or create your own. We will be delivering all day on Fathers Day for free to Bayside area if you want to keep it a surprise. Pre prepared gift packs are available online from this afternoon. If you wish to create a more personalised gift pack, please come and see us in store and of course we are happy to deliver it on Father's Day. To see our Gift pack range go to https://shop.sidebarwine.com/collections/gift-packs Or come in and see us.

08.01.2022 New wines from our friends @cellarhandwine

07.01.2022 CELEBRATE SPRING WITH $10 APEROL SPRITZ Why not welcome the beautiful Spring sunshine with a take away Aperol Spritz!!! For this week only you can take home a slice of Veneto in a jar for just $10, over 100 years of Italian drinking can't be wrong!!!

07.01.2022 A little something interesting from Sidebar Wine 2018 DOMAINE PICHOT VOUVRAY SEC COTEAU DE LA BICHE and 2019 TERRE À TERRE PICCADILLY RED. The Pichot family is one of the oldest in Vouvray with origins as restaurateurs going back to 1739 later followed by the purchase of the superb Coteau de la Biche vineyards in 1770. These days the wine maker is Christophe Pichot. This wine comes from vines situated just above the family house and winery in the prime south-east facing Val...lee de Nouys. Aromas of pear candied fruit and spice with hints of honey and that distinctive chalkiness that is so typical of great Vouvray. Fine, brilliantly focused flavours with exceptional texture and length this shows the tension typical of great dry Vouvray. From the beginning, the vision for Terre à Terre has been to grow grapes of exceptional quality from our carefully selected vineyard sites every year, and then vinify them using the best of French and Australian wine practices. With rigour and precision, winemaking couple Xavier Bizot and Lucy Croser can produce world class fine wines which will have great ageing potential, combining elegance and power. A blend of the different red grape varietals Trousseau Noir, Cabernet Franc, Mondeuse and Merlot from their Piccadilly Valley vineyard, with cranberries, pomegranate, violets and sweet vanillin spice bounce up out of the glass. Its chalky tannins give the wine a nice firmness whilst the juicy red fruits and bright acidity keep it lively and fresh.

06.01.2022 SIDEBAR WINE UPDATE There are some exciting changes happening at Sidebar and I guess the first one we have worked hard on is our new Spring/Summer menu and wine list. We have some great new additions to both and can not wait to share them with you when we reopen on the 3rd of November!!! If you wish to have a look you can go to our website and see them there. While you are on our website check out our function packages and perhaps book a reservation. Reservations are fil...ling up very quickly so I recommend you get in quick to get your preferred date and time!!!! https://www.sidebarwine.com/ See more

06.01.2022 SIDEBAR TAKE AWAY MENU From tomorrow you can enjoy your favourite items from us cooked or made to order from 12pm till 8pm everyday of the week. From our pork sliders to our pastas are available. You can also buy it to take and cook at home if you prefer. Please see our menu attached. We hope everyone stays safe and that this will be the final time we have to close our doors to patrons enjoying our unique wine bar. Regards... The team at Sidebar Wine

06.01.2022 2 STUNNING WINES FROM MARLBOROUGH, NZ Novum is a moving tribute to everything that Will and Rachel have learned through their considerable careers to date. Will started as a cellar hand and finished as General Manager and winemaker at Fromm after 19 years. Rachel played with both winemaking and marketing, graduating winemaking at Roseworthy and immediately departing to chase her love of Chardonnay with vintages at Domaine Drouhin in Oregon en route to Domaine des Comtes La...fon in Meursault, before returning to NZ in marketing roles at Cloudy Bay and later, Fromm. NED GOODWIN MW REVIEWS 2019 NOVUM CHARDONNAY $63 95 Points A limpid pale yellow augurs restraint. Very savoury. Chalky and oyster shell-saline, with the fruit a flashback rather than primary focus. Riffs on oatmeal biscuit, apricot pith, barley sugar, nashi pear and raw cashew are reeled across a spool of tensile acidity, punctuated with a gentle pucker. A high-wire act, this is balletic in its elegance and confident in the way it moves across the mouth. Some sexy oak nestled in there somewhere as an adjunct rather than a scream. Nothing jangly or coarse. Just strident, persuasive and extremely fine of length and feel. 2018 NOVUM PINOT NOIR $63 94 Points I like this. A lot! A typically NZ in its structural meld of fine-boned tannins, sandy latticework of acidity and something salty and moreish. The structure is the totem, sure, but the core of subtle fruit creeps up: damson plum, bloodstone, bing cherry, orange zest and a cinnamon twirl of oak. There is nothing too sweet, cloying or overly exuberant about this. The voice is one of measured, mid-weighted refinement. A benchmark for the region.

05.01.2022 Thank you for your patience! The works here have been finished and we are back open for business. Come in to see our new awning and our latest additions to the wine list, like the 2018 Marli Russle Marsanne Roussanne by Mount Mary or the 2018 Domaine Chanson Bourgogne all the way from Burgundy. You can see more details on the wines on out website https://shop.sidebarwine.com/

05.01.2022 Closed for Maintenance! To all our valued customers, Sidebar will be closed from Monday 31st August until Wednesday 2nd September due to the completion of our street front awning. We will be back open on Thursday 4th as usual. With that in mind, we still are offering 20% off any purchase today with free delivery to Bayside. To take advantage of this offer simply come in to the store or shop online at https://shop.sidebarwine.com/

04.01.2022 In need of something bubbly during our 2nd wave? Try this amazing sparkling from Marlborough, New Zealand. NO. 1 FAMILY ESTATE CUVÉE BLANC DE BLANC NV $46 For almost 40 years, champagne maker Daniel Le Brun has had one goal: to make Méthode Traditionelle wines that rival the best in the world and to do it in Marlborough, New Zealand.... The first record of a Le Brun planting vines in France is from 1684 and the family still produce Méthode Traditionelle under their own labels in France. Intense wine, complex with fine bubbles that spiral elegantly to the top of the glass, green lemon aromas, peach and brioche, ample mousse in the palate, fresh acidity and fine fruit make this wine exceptionally enjoyable.

01.01.2022 We at Sidebar would like to welcome two new additions to our list. 2019 CORYMBIA CABERNET SAUVIGNON and 2015 TERRAZZE DELL'ETNA 'CARUSU' Corymbia is the deep-rooted, far-sighted vision of husband-and wife-team, Rob and Genevieve Mann. The Mann name is synonymous with Western Australia’s Swan Valley, where Rob’s pioneering grandfather Jack worked a remarkable 51 consecutive vintages for Houghton.... This Margret River Cabernet is a stunning wine, medium bodied with violet and black razz berry on the nose, plum and black olive on the palate with fine tannin and a long savoury finish. Terrazze dell'Etna 'Carusu' is a Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappucio blend hailing from Sicily. The property Terrazze dell’Etna stretches from 650 to 950 meters above sea level and brushes up against the natural Etna Park. It was acquired in 2008 by Nino Bevilacqua, a Palermitan engineer deeply in love with his homeland. His passion for Sicily has induced him to rediscover and restore an ancient and characteristic agricultural estate, purchasing numerous small plots of land which shape an amphitheatre of terraces where vineyards are cultivated. A prime example of an Etna wine, cherry and strawberry leaf hints on the nose, smokey cranberry with spice on the palate and a fine mineral finish.