I love a good tasting session, especially in a well-appointed tasting room. The baby stills in the background a fully functioning and served as the perfect eye-candy for my Prickly Moses beer tasting paddle. The tasting room at the Queenscliff Brewhouse was a delightful escape from the football crowd in the main bar.
I stopped in at the Bellarine Whisky Distillery this afternoon and spent an excellent hour chatting and tasting with the lovely Logan at the distillery door. We had much discussion around flavours and stories and production.
I’m playing at Itinerant Spirits on Thursday night. As a distillery, they have a cocktail special matched with the musician. I flipped through my cocktail book looking for inspiration and found this page. The French Whore sounds very tasty!
There’s something about Friday that just feels better with a glass of wine in a nice little bistrot. Woods Yard in Albert Park is doing it perfectly. A beautifully balanced Albariño from Margan in Orange is in my glass next to a tasty bowl of olives.
The dregs of a dark beer on a winter afternoon. A sign of time well spent in conversation and contemplation.
There’s a special place in my heart for Calvados, having lived in Brittany for a year. I’ve been watching chef Guillaume Brahimi doing a tour of the west coast of France, which compelled me to pour a little glass of the divine apple spirit.
It is a fair question to ask, why drink coffee in a shot glass? The answer is for the sheer pleasure of watching the coffee settle after it comes out of the machine. The tiny waves swirl around until the crema sits on top, a perfect straight line separating it from the dark
Isn’t Mr Tea the cutest little tea ball you’ve ever seen? He hangs there on the side of the cup, grinning and splashing his legs in his Earl Grey bath. My tea-drinking daughter thought he was a pretty good 17th birthday present.
Oh my, this is delicious! Gin, applejack, lime and grenadine, topped with a maraschino cherry. An intense and refreshing concoction served by the very stylish bartenders at Mill Place Merchants, hiding down an alley in central Melbourne.
I’m sipping on a delicious aged white from Best’s Great Western. It’s one of the oldest wineries in Victoria and the Concongella Blanc is a field blend from the nursery block that includes 39 varieties, 8 still unidentified. There’s a good portion of Riesling in the mix and as the result the wine
