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GFWS Sydney

On the coat tails of the wonderfully successful Melbourne GFWS we were off to Sydney for a repeat performance. The opportunity to showcase all the best of what NSW has to offer all gourmands was not missed with some amazing stands and fabulous produce on offer.

The queue at the main door was long and once the doors opened on Friday it was game on!! Within a short space of time it was dueling GFWS Shopping Trolleys ever ... CONTINUE READING »

GFWS – Melbourne

It was just another day at the office; fly in to Melbourne, taxi to the event, ensure all the materials for the construction of the stand had arrived, build the stand, set up the iPads…etc, etc…..12 hours later, be pretty chuffed with how the stand looks…….then freak out at how big this event is.For gourmands, the Good Food and Wine Show is what the Clipsal 500 is to motorheads; loud, proud, aromatic and full of tasty treats ... CONTINUE READING »

Thanks Melbourne

You know the old saying, “it’s a hard job but someone has to do it.”  Whoever said that wasn’t talking about me.  I trot that out a lot when people ask me what it is I do for a crust.  When you tell them you work in the wine industry the general response is a polite “really, that must be fun…”  However their eyes usually convey something far less polite.  You see the romantic view of what I do is that I get paid t ... CONTINUE READING »

Rockford Stone Wall Table

Those who know me know there are two things I value in life above most everything else – good grub and good booze. It stands to reason then, that a seat at the Rockford Stone Wall Table is for me, what rolling around in excrement must have been like for the black pig we later ate.

The Rockford Stone Wall Table, for those living under a rock, is considered by many to be the crowning jewel of culinary experience in th ... CONTINUE READING »

Red Zeppelin

The Great Led Zeppelin Wine Pairing is a series of “wine and music pairings” created by noted restaurateur and viticulturist Joe Bastianich and writer-musician Mike Edison, along with writer and wine expert David Lynch (not the freaky film maker).

The idea was formed when Bastianich and Edison were pondering how to pair the songs of Led Zeppelin with various wines.

"Our passion for wine is only ... CONTINUE READING »

The Dot Drop Boom

What a year in technology. Google’s “Android” phones are challenging the trend-setting iPhone for marketshare. The iPad has easily created a whole new market segment of slate computing. And Facebook? No one remembers MySpace, yet Mark Zuckerberg’s notion now has more users than many countries have residents.

But who cares about big bandwidth when you want a bold Shiraz? We do – the Australian w ... CONTINUE READING »

Kegs in Spaaaaace.

It is often said we in Australia suffer from a tyranny of distance. Family, art and history, industry – it all dwells on the other side of some very large bodies of water.

Thankfully, we are a clever and adaptable bunch. Rather than thinking along the lines of many Northern Hemisphere folks, and cobble lists of must-haves when stranded on a deserted island, we apply ourselves vigorously to the enterprise of moving l ... CONTINUE READING »