Together with Megan Nunn, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to our Champagne Magnum Soirée at her Winnifred’s on Arthur on Saturday 11 October 2025! Our Grower Champagne Lunch announcement went viral and sold out in just three days, so we are very proud to launch our soirée of grand proportions in Winnifred’s private […]
Penfolds Bin 51 Eden Valley Riesling 2025 $45 10.5% A particularly dry season of warm conditions and small yields, which Kym Schroeter describes as a bit too warm for riesling, though perfect for chardonnay. In its youthful state at just a few months of age, it carries the power and ripeness of the season in […]
Together with my dear friend Megan Nunn, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to our intimate Grower Champagne Lunch to celebrate the grand opening of her Winnifred’s on Arthur! When I first met Megan over a few glasses of Charles Heidsieck in the Barossa in February 2018, she shared with me her grand vision […]
Together with Ed Carr, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to a grand celebration of the 30th Anniversary of House of Arras at The Lodge on James St Brisbane on Thursday 18th September 2025. It’s impossible to overstate the monumental impact of House of Arras on the history of Australian sparkling. There is no […]
It’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me for my inaugural Grand Cru and Premier Cru Burgundy Dinner at Spicers Clovelly Estate on Saturday 16 August 2025. This intimate, seven course degustation dinner will be intricately matched with seven Grand Cru and Premier Cru Burgundies from my cellar. Burgundy is the world’s most […]
It’s my tremendous pleasure to invite you to an extraordinary experience of every one of the greatest vintages of Krug spanning 1988 to 2004 in the deepest vertical tasting that I have ever presented of this fabled house at Hervé’s Restaurant on Saturday 31 May 2025. Krug possesses an astonishing ability to mature, and old […]
Together with chef de cave Émilien Boutillat, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to the Australian launch of Rare Champagne 2012 at Montrachet Brisbane on Wednesday 11 June and Oncore by Clare Smyth in Sydney on Friday 13 June. The launch of a new vintage of Rare Champagne lives up to its name, and […]
Last month in Paris, Penfolds released its most contentious wine since the very creation of Grange itself: Penfolds Grange La Chapelle Shiraz Syrah 2021. On paper it could not be more bewildering. Grange is an official Heritage Icon of South Australia. It’s definitively and idiosyncratically Australian – the Uluru of shiraz. La Chapelle is the […]
Together with Antoine Roland-Billecart himself, it’s my great honour to invite you to the Australian launch of Billecart-Salmon Cuvée Nicolas-François 2012, Cuvée Louis Salmon 2012 and Cuvée Elisabeth-Salmon 2012 at O Bar in Sydney on Monday 28 April 2025. Besides Krug itself, there is no greater trio of prestige blanc de blancs, rosé and blend […]
I’m very excited to announce that my inaugural auction Champagne: Auctioning the World’s Finest is now live with Langtons! The line-up is breathtaking and would have to be the most significant ever presented in Australia. Set to be the largest single-region auction in Langtons’ 37-year history and the biggest champagne auction in this country, there’s […]