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Yves Cuilleron Tasting Prince Wine Store Saturday 27th June
"Why aren't there more people here?" I posed rhetorically to the handful of other tasters at the recent presentation of Yves Cuilleron's latest releases at Prince Wine Store's Sydney shop. Once again "The Prince" had put on a great show and it seemed to me that anyone...
A Must Buy! Jean Marc Pillot Bourgogne Blanc 2013 – “Le Haut Des Champs”
Long Lunchers are always on the lookout for great value. A recent Saturday tasting at the Sydney branch of the Prince Wine Store featured the wines of Jane Eyre, an Australian winemaker producing pinots in Australia but also in Burgundy. She had some interesting wines...
World’s Best Ice Cream – Part 1
La Gelateria della Musica via Pestalozzi 4 Porta Genova 20143 Milan Italy In October last year I stayed at a rather non descript hotel in the Porta Genova district of Milan in Italy. One day whilst talking to the hotel manager our conversation drifted towards the...

The World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Whilst traipsing aimlessly along the retail corridors of Dubai International Airport recently, I spied a big beautiful black wine bottle in an elegant display case. It was impossible to miss because it was so enormous. Everyone who passed by was tempted to take a...

Friday 5th July, 2013 La Cucinetta Italian Wine Lunch
At the end of our May lunch we decided to try something a bit different and settled upon the theme of Italian wines. We approached La Cucinetta's chef and he agreed to create a special menu for us. Ray did a great job organising the people and the food and I've done...
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Although classed as a simple Bourgogne Blanc this is easily Villages quality and would test many premiere cru whites from Burgundy. Lack of fruit weight was all that separated this wine from that esteemed status of premiere cru.
It is fresh and vibrant with great acid and a noticeable mineral character, almost Chablis like. This is not dull, flat and flabby like a lot of lesser chardonnays but has plenty of life and leaves a wonderful zing in your mouth. A very different style to the fruit driven, oak drenched chardonnay often made in Australia.
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