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Strand Cellars, 12 The Strand, Sydney (2025)

04/04/2025

Hot & Spicy!

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Wine Tasting Friday
Grenache & Friends
Tonight 4th April from 5pm

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Anyone else noticing that slight chill in the air of an evening?

The days are getting shorter, the clocks will change this weekend, and it is almost time to bring out the doona.

Definitely time to get warm and cozy with some Grenache, the hot and spicy grape renowned for producing wines of delicious spice and high alcohol.

Known as Cannonau to the Sardinians, Granaccia to the Ligurians, Garnatxa negre to the Catalan, Garnacha tinta to the Spanish, Grenache noir to the French, Grenache to Australians, and Grenache to South Australians, the fruit calls all of these places home because it likes feeling hot hot hot!

The late-ripening fruit thrives in hot, dry climates. Before it was introduced into Australia in the 18th Century, the spread of Grenache across Mediterranean Europe had indubitably been linked to the expanding thalassocratic rule of the Crown of Aragon. It is contested however whether its origin is in Aragon itself, or whether its birthplace was in fact Sardinia: recent archaeological studies suggest that the Aragonese instead took it back home from the Mediterranean island they occupied during their 14th Century. Jury’s still out, but the debate as to its origin has been firing up conversations amongst hot-headed somms just as much as the wine itself!

Join us tomorrow as we warm up your evening with Grenache, exploring it across its many terroirs of South Australia, either on its own, or with its blending partners Shiraz and Mouvèdre in the classic GSM.

And for those who like to play it cool, a selection of whites from Bunnamagoo.

On pour:
* Bunnamagoo Riesling 2024
* Bunnamagoo Pinot Gris 2024
* Bunnamagoo Semillon 2023
* Bunnamagoo Chardonnay 2023
* Kilikanoon Killerman’s Run GSM 2022 Clare Valley
* Angove GSM 2022 McLaren Vale
* Agathist Alchemy Grenache 2017 Barossa Valley
* Kilikanoon Prodigal Grenache 2022 Clare Valley
* Izway Maurice Grenache 2022 Barossa Valley

28/03/2025

Mirror, Mirror
on the wall,
Who is the Noblest
of them all?

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Wine Tasting Friday
Chardonnay & Cabernet
Tonight, 28 March from 5pm

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What is a noble grape?

Whilst some lists distinguish up to eighteen grapes with aristrocratic attributes, traditionalists like to talk about the six noble grapes: Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon.

These six are heralded for their ability to thrive in all corners of the globe, whilst retaining their true character, whatever corner they happened to have conquered.

All of these varietals have found a home somewhere in Australia. And whilst they each retain the noble characteristics for which they were originally celebrated in their homeland of France, the unique Australian terroir - our microclimates, our soils and even our Eucalypts - have helped us develop a signature style and helped put us on the map.

Over the last half century, our reflection of old world styles through an upside-down lens or “down under” has put us into international focus.

Join us tonight as we put the focus on two noble grapes and their interpretations across our great land: Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon blends.

Our selection for tasting reaches as far as New South Wales to Western Australia; from Victoria’s high country to its southern peninsula, and along to South Australia’s Limestone Coast.

On pour for your reflection:

👑 Tyrrell’s Hunter Valley Chardonnay 2023 NSW
👑 Paringa Estate Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay 2024 VIC
👑 Woodlands Wilyabrup Chardonnay 2023 WA
👑 Fighting Gully Road Beechworth Chardonnay 2023 VIC
👑 Zema Estate Cluny Coonawarra Cabernet Blend 2018 SA
👑 Yalumba Sanctum Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 SA
👑 Victory Point The Mallee Root Cabernet Blend 2021 WA
👑 Woodlands Clémentine Wilyabrup Cabernet Blend 2019 WA

21/03/2025

Many happy returns!

Wine Tasting Friday
CORRYTON BURGE
Tonight from 5pm

In Japanese culture, the 60th birthday is of particular significance. People celebrating their Kanreki have completed their cycle of the Chinese zodiac a total of five times, and have returned to their original birth zodiac. It is seen by the Japanese, not as a time for getting older, but as a time for rebirth.

A chance to start over.

For last week’s Wine Tasting Friday, Anthony poured Grant Burge, the winery that Grant and his wife Helen had sold to Accolade Wines in 2015.

With Grant having entered his 60s himself, in 2020 Grant’s son Trent and his daughter Amelia launched the rebirth of the Burge name with Corryton Burge. Taking on a mentoring role in the family-owned business, Grant was honoured by his children with the Corryton Burge Cabernet that they named “The Brigadier”.

The name Corryton Burge draws on the six generations of Burge Family winemaking in South Australia, as well as the name of the family’s estate. Grant purchased the Corryton Park Homestead for his family in 1999.

In 1999, Anthony purchased Strand Cellars.

Over the last 25 years, Strand Cellars has been a loyal supporter of the name Grant Burge, with Anthony greatly admiring Grant as the winemaker, Grant as the businessman and Grant as the family man.

Join us tonight as we raise a glass to Anthony on his 60th birthday with the wines of Corryton Burge!

18/03/2025

One for the sheilas!

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Back in the day, our Irish diaspora would back up their Paddy’s Day celebrations on March 17th by raising a glass to Sheelagh on the 18th, a tradition that is as forgotten in the homeland as it is down here.

The day was in honour of Sheelagh or Síle, supposedly the wife or mother or something of St Patrick.

The feast day occurred in the lead up to the Northern Hemisphere’s Vernal Equinox and was associated with spring fertility and harvest.

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Despite the reversal of the seasons, when Irish women emigrated to Australia, the tradition held strong; an example of the the spirit of the day was reported by The Sydney Gazette almost 200 years again, back in the March of 1832:

“ ‘a would if I could, but I can’t’ sort of a lady’, was brought up for the commission of divers peccadilloes on the evening of Sunday. Martha pleaded ‘Shelah’s Day’ in extenuation, and was ordered to ‘go and sin no more’. “

It is argued to be the way in which the word sheila entered the Aussie vernacular.

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On the eve of our autumnal equinox we raise a glass to all the sheilas out there laboriously harvesting grapes and hops for our future drinking pleasure. Sláinte!

14/03/2025

From Pharmacology to Farm Ecology

Wine Tasting Friday
PETERSONS & GRANT BURGE
Tonight from 5pm

Since the earliest evidence of its existence dating back to 6000 BC, the majority of ancient texts alluding to wine were written, not by wine critics, but by those preaching of its healing qualities, lauded widely by philosophers and health professionals all the way back to Hippocrates.

To produce wine, once the juice is extracted from the grapes, the rest is discarded: the macerated skins, the seeds, the stems, the leaves and dead yeast.

Many smaller wineries have found ways to manage their waste by reutilising their wine pomace for stock feed, composting and in the production of grappa or even beer.

Meanwhile the pharmaceutical industry has been looking into waste management for wineries, investigating the bioactive components of the wine by-products for their anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and anti-ageing properties.

Now the crossover between the wine world and the pharmacological world is nothing new to us at Strand Cellars.

At many a Wine Tasting Friday, Peter our resident retired pharmacist has generously shared an old (or sometimes young) gem from his own cellar, after spending a lifetime of seeking the perfectly balanced chemical equation of methoxypyrazine (herbaceous notes) in his Sémillon and Cabernet, and rotundone (peppery notes) in his Shiraz.

Ian Peterson of Peterson’s was also a pharmacist. Ian hung up the white lab coat to purchase an old dairy in the Lower Hunter Valley with his wife Shirley and son Colin. Whilst Ian had a pretty extensive understanding of microbiology, chemistry and metabolic pathways from his Pharmacy studies, he recruited a young cellar hand named Gary Reed to help him with the first vintage. Almost 45 years later, Gary is still there as the Chief Winemaker.

Join us tonight as we view wine through both the pharmacological and religious lens, with the clinical whites from Petersons in the Hunter, and the divine reds of Grant Burge in the Barossa.

07/03/2025

Family Ties

Wine Tasting Friday
d’Arenberg
Tonight 7 March from 5pm

Back in 1959, d’Arry Osborn decided to change up the family business, steering away from the traditional bulk flagon production of fortifieds in favour of single-bottled table wines.

He changed the company name to d’Arenberg, in honour of his mother Frances Helena d’Arenberg who had tragically died bringing him into this world.

For the label d’Arry chose a red stripe, just like the red school tie he had proudly worn as a boy during his days at the prestigious Prince Alfred College, before leaving to join the family business at sixteen. During vintage, d’Arry would wear dinner shirts in the winery to “give the reds more elegance “.

66 years later, the iconic red stripe of d’Arry’s school tie still proudly adorns each bottle of d’Arenberg today.

Join us tonight as we share once again some of the great stories of the wine names and the family ties from the elegantly dressed wines of d’Arenberg.

On pour:

- d’Arenberg The Stump Jump White Blend 2021
- d’Arenberg The Stump Jump GSM 2019
- d’Arenberg The Stump Jump Shiraz 2021
- d’Arenberg The Hermit Crab Viognier Marsanne 2023
- d’Arenberg The Footbolt Shiraz 2021
- d’Arenberg The Bonsai Vine GSM 2020
- d’Arenberg The Galvo Garage Cabernet Blend 2018
- d’Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz 2019

26/02/2025

One Good THURS Deserves Another!

Wine Tasting THURSDAY
Tonight, not tomorrow!
PARINGA ESTATE
Thursday 27th Feb from 5pm

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42 years ago in a restaurant, a young geography teacher was awestruck when he tasted the 1980 Seville Estate Shiraz, prompting him to ponder whether he too could produce a cool climate Shiraz of such elegance and finesse in Victoria.

A year later, Lindsay McCall purchased a derelict orchard on the Mornington Peninsula.

With only a degree in economics to fall back on, and a day job teaching geography to private school girls, Mr McCall spent his weekends clearing out the derelict north-facing orchard he had purchased in 1984. He planted Shiraz in the warmest spot he could find on the rich, red volcanic soil. Without any formal training in vini- nor viticulture, most of what Lindsay planted was trial and error, but he never gave up on his passion for emulating that elegant cool climate Shiraz grown over red soils.

Over the years Lindsay’s success with his Shiraz was heavily rewarded, as were his other varieties such as Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, and of course Pinot Noir. So much recognition in fact that in 1996, Lindsay could finally give up his day job as a school teacher to dedicate himself fully to his vines and his estate. Lindsay today shares this passion with his son and head winemaker Jamie, who incidentally did formally study viticulture and oenology.

Last week a great number of you did your homework, coming to Strand Cellars for our tasting on the Thursday, not Friday night.

Well done, your school teachers would be proud!

This week we ask you once again to join us tonight, THURSDAY, not Friday, as we explore the prized varietals of Paringa Estate, including the teacher’s pet, the cool climate Shiraz.

On pour:
- Paringa Estate Pinot Gris 2024
- Paringa Estate Peninsula Chardonnay 2024
- Paringa Estate Chardonnay 2023
- Paringa Estate Rosé 2022
- Paringa Estate Peninsula Pinot Noir 2023
- Paringa Estate Peninsula Shiraz 2021
- Paringa Estate Shiraz 2015

20/02/2025

Shaking Things Up!

Wine Tasting THURSDAY
Tonight, THURSDAY NOT FRIDAY!
20th February From 5pm

New Zealand is Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud.

According to Polynesian legend, the island nation came to be when the demi-god Māui (yes that’s right, you’re welcome!) went on a fishing trip with his older brothers and caught the entire North Island, or Te Ika a Māui (the fish of Māui).

Before the youngest brother had a chance to properly thank Tangoroa, the god of the sea for the tremendous catch, Māui’s greedy older brother began hacking at the giant fish for themselves, thereby creating the valleys, mountains and lakes of the North Island.

Māui’s hook that he used for the catch is seen today in the shape of Hawke’s Bay, or Te Matau a Māui in the North Island’s east. The South Island, or Te Waka a Māui, is the waka (canoe) from which Māui and his brothers fished, the sea-drowned valleys of the Marlborough Sounds created by the intricate carvings on its prow.

The mountain ranges in the north create sufficient rain shadow to bestow the Hawke’s Bay region with the most amount of sunshine of the entire rainy, long white clouded-country, the warm sunshine particularly encouraging for the likes of Syrah or Cabernet blends.

Likewise the Southern Alps or Kā Tiritiri o te Moana (the mirage of the ocean) that rose up along the spine of the South Island’s waka from the underlying tectonic pressures, protect the vineyards in the east, from Marlborough to Central Otago. In fact the full Māori name for Marlborough’s Wairau Valley, famed for its Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, is Kei P**a te Wairau, literally the place with the hole in the cloud.

All of these stories have shaped the Aotearoa of today with its prominent place on the international stage of New World wine, and tonight we take pride in presenting a wine from the world’s first Māori-owned winery.

Join as tonight (THURSDAY!!! not Friday) as we shake up your wine tasting week with a tramp around the Shaky Isles!

14/02/2025

Congratulations to tonight’s Valentine’s Day lucky cellar door prizewinners, taking home the highly desired bottle of Vintage Blanc de Blancs 2018.

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And welcome back to everyone who joined us tonight for our first Wine Tasting Friday of 2025. Cheers all! 🍷

Until next Friday…

14/02/2025

Casting Pearls Before Wine…

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Valentine’s Wine Tasting Friday
BUNNAMAGOO ESTATE
Tonight 14th February from 5pm
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“There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not,
On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot.
Where the brooding old ridge rises up to the breeze
From his dark lonely gullies of stringy-bark trees,
There are voice-haunted gaps, ever sullen and strange,
But Eurunderee lies like a gem in the range.”

In his love letter to the Mudgee locality of Eurunderee, in the poem of the same name, Henry Lawson spoke of the very first Chardonnay vines planted in the region by Adam Roth back in 1858:

“on the knolls where the vineyards and fruit-gardens are, there’s a beauty that even the drought cannot mar”.

Spending his formative years growing up in Eurunderee, Lawson became enamoured with the Australian bush.

He likened Eurunderee to a “gem”.

And so it might come as no surprise that the infamous pearling family Paspaley, who certainly know a thing or two about recognising a precious gemstone, expanded their cool-climate holdings of the Bunnamagoo Estate in the south of Bathurst to the more temperate climate of Eurunderee.

With the rain shadow of the Great Dividing Range protecting both localities of the Bunnamagoo vineyards, the Chardonnay and fruit for the sparkling wines are sourced from the cooler climate Rockley site, its finesse stemming from its volcanic red basalt soils sitting at an elevation of 800m. The reds come from the limestone over clay soils of Eurunderee at 450m, producing wines of subtle nuance and warmth. The Paspaley Reserve range is only produced in the finest of years.

On pour for Valentine’s Day:

❤️ Bunnamagoo Estate Sparkling 2015
❤️ Bunnamagoo Vintage Blanc de Blancs 2018
❤️ Bunnamagoo Estate Chardonnay 2023
❤️ Bunnamagoo Estate Shiraz 2021
❤️ Bunnamagoo Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
🦪 Bunnamagoo Paspaley Reserve Chardonnay 2022
🦪 Bunnamagoo Paspaley Reserve Shiraz 2021
🦪 Bunnamagoo Paspaley Reserve Cab Sauvignon 2021

19/12/2024

Family the most important

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Christmas Tasting Friday
Tyrrell’s Wines
Tonight from 5pm in The Cellar
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This week smile activist Danny Lim was on The Strand, reminding us at Christmas what is the most important:

Family

As is family tradition, Anthony recently received a hand-written Christmas card from the Tyrrell Family of the Hunter, thanking him again for his loyalty and support throughout the year.

Now in their fifth-generation, know a thing or two about the importance of celebrating Family, through loyalty, legacy and longevity.

This Friday’s tasting is centred on these foundations.

Legacy will be in the Vat 1, Vat 47 and Vat 9, still named as such since their inception by the legendary third-generation winemaker Murray Tyrrell.

Loyalty comes from the Mother’s Shiraz, the vines planted on the site where Murray’s mother lived for all of her married life.

As for longevity, .comino.58 brings something to share from his own home cellar: a Vat 6 Hunter River Dry Red made by Murray himself in 1973. This is the very same year that our Strand Cellars Wine Merchants was established in Croydon!

Now Christmas is all about sharing, but between a little ullage with some of the liquid shared already by the Christmas angels, and the old-school bottle only have 738ml to begin with, you might want to get in early to taste history, but never fear, we will have plenty of room for all down in The Cellar to toast to the end of 2024!

On pour:

* Tyrrell’s Blanc de Blancs 2015
* Tyrrell’s Hunter Valley Semillon 2024
* Tyrrell’s Hunter Valley Chardonnay 2023
* Tyrrell’s Hunter Valley Shiraz 2022
* Tyrrell’s Mother’s Vineyard Shiraz 2022
* Tyrrell’s Vat 1 Semillon 2017
* Tyrrell’s Vat 47 Chardonnay 2021
* Tyrrell’s Vat 9 Shiraz 2018
* Tyrrell’s Hunter River Dry Red 1973

Merry Christmas from Anthony & Vlad,
and all of the Strand Cellars Family!

19/12/2024

Oui Oui Oui to Strand Cellars celebrating 25 years of business, french connections and christmas. 🎈🇫🇷🎄

Our patron Anthony invited us to an evening at in Potts Point. It’s not often we’re all together, particularly sharing a meal with Anthony and Vlad’s better halves Kim and Vesna. We can confirm Anthony and Vlad shared a delicious cut of steak 🥩 neither were cooking the bbq that evening.

Thanks to we brought our own wine with their BYO option on Monday and Tuesday nights. The sommelier carefully handled the pouring. Peta prepared a beautiful tasting menu, to guide us through the list. and Anthony procured the bottles from their personal cellars, their selection guided us from Champagne with 2009 Le Sourire de Reims through Burgundy 2014 Les Combettes Puligny-Montrachet and domaine_trapet 2002 Latricières-Chambertin, to the Rhône Valley 2016 Saint-Joseph, South Australia 1980 Grange Hermitage and Bordeaux 1980 Sauternes before finishing in the heartland of Barossa Valley with a 1946 Para liqueur port which Anthony confirmed has now all magically ‘evaporated’ over a few days.

The evening was very enjoyable and we’re thankful to Anthony for his generosity. Now’s it’s time to prepare to celebrate with our Croydon community tomorrow evening for our Christmas drinks.

📸 Peta Wood

13/12/2024

Back to Beechworth

Wine Tasting Friday
Fighting Gully Road
Tonight Friday the 13th from 5pm

Last week Stephanie .girl and Will took us “Back to Burgundy”, enchanting with stories of their time living in Burgundy.

They taught us about Chardonnay across the villages, the terroir, the climatic challenges, and how the maker of Will’s highly desirable Mystery Wine, Vincent Dauvissat, is just a “really nice dude”.

This week Stephanie and Will join us again to share insights working with some other “really nice dudes” as we go Back to Beechworth.

Before our Rhône Girl first moved to France to work with Syrah in the Northern Rhône (followed by swapping out the Syrah for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in Burgundy), Stephanie sought employment at with famed vigneron Mark Walpole and his vineyard manager Tony, to work not only with their Syrah, but also their stunning Chardonnay from the famed Smiths Vineyard.

Mark and Tony are masters of grafting, allowing them to introduce new varietals into their vineyard, fuelled particularly by Mark’s passion for Italian varietals such as Sangiovese, Aglianico and Verdicchio.

Mark and Tony are also masters of inoculation, being the first on mainland Australia to produce truffles. Cold nights in the Victorian high country’s winter are warmed by the heavenly yet earthy taste of the truffle as they employ expert hunters, Tony’s labradors Hammer and Petra, and their snuggly sleuths of adorable offspring, to help find them!

Alas, whilst Christmas tables in Italy might be laiden with truffles right now for their celebration of Natale, here Down Under it is not the right season. What we will have on offer though is a selection of beautiful wines from Fighting Gully Road which will all feel perfectly at home on your Christmas table.

Join us tomorrow night for the second last tasting of the year, as Stephanie and Will bring us Back to Beechworth!

On pour:

* Fighting Gully Road Verdicchio 2023
* Fighting Gully Road Chardonnay 2023
* Fighting Gully Road Smiths Vineyard Chardonnay 2021
* Fighting Gully Road Rosé 2022
* Fighting Gully Road Pinot Noir 2023
* Fighting Gully Road Sangiovese 2023

09/12/2024

And we’re bound for Botany Bay!

Nah, scratch that, they can come to us...

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A Study in Botany: A Christmas Beer & Gin Festival
All Brewed and Distilled in Botany
feat. and

The Cellar
12 The Strand, Croydon
5:30pm - 7pm
Tix: $10, redeemable upon purchase of a 4-pack of Slow Lane beer or a bottle of liqueur/spirits from Banks & Solander
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Alex and Yvonne started brewing out of their tiny apartment when they were living in NYC. Marty and Ed decided to fashion their own hand-beaten copper still from scratch when their backyard gin-distilling hobby exploded in demand.

They all share the same passion: crafting small-batch, family-owned and run, no-corners-cut, thoughtfully-made artisanal beverages from the backstreets of Botany.

Alex and Yvonne are Slow Lane Brewing.
They “specialise in modern interpretations of old world European ales and lagers”.

Marty and Ed are Banks & Solander Distillery.
Their “passion is making fine spirits... from the best possible ingredients for you to enjoy”.

This Thursday we have invited these “specialists in Botany” to talk about their craft, as you taste through their incredible respective range of beers and spirits.

Alex from Slow Lane will be pouring his interpretations of the old world styles inspired by the master brewers of England, Germany and of course Belgium, sharing each of their fascinating origin stories along the way.

Zac from Banks & Solander will take you on a “spiritual” journey from Gin to Rum to their range of Lemon- ( and other assorted citrus) -cello.

There is sure to be something for everyone, whether you are looking for a nice, refreshing beverage to serve on Christmas Day or something a little more substantial to share as a perfect Christmas gift.

04/12/2024

Back to Burgundy

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Strand Cellars is thrilled to have Stephanie .girl and Will back home from their vinous adventures in Burgundy to present an extra special Wine Tasting Friday down in The Cellar!

With their shared passion and expertise for the power and elegance of Bourgogne Blanc (White Burgundy), Stephanie and Will will present a few select wines from importer .euan and will be joined in The Cellar by Euan’s wine rep extraordinaire, Ian

Stephanie, Will and Ian will take you on a journey through the different expressions of Burgundy Chardonnay across Chablis to the Mâconnais, before exploring Burgundy-style high density planting back home in our own Mornington Peninsula.

On pour:

Cuvée Préférence Brut NV (on arrival)
Chablis 2022
Cuvée Flavie Bourgogne Blanc 2020
En Chailloux Mâcon-Prissé 2019
Chardonnay Mornington Peninsula 2023

Date: This Friday 6th of December

When: The Cellar open from 6pm (Champagne on arrival)
Tasting from 6:30pm

Where: The Cellar, Strand Cellars, 12 The Strand, Croydon

Tickets: $25 a head
Please pay at the shop’s front counter on arrival and you will be directed through the store, down to The Cellar

RSVP: email [email protected]
or phone 02 9747 5438

29/11/2024

Are You Gam-ay?

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Tonight we'll learn that you shouldn't judge a wine by its label either.

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Wine Tasting Friday
A Trip Around Aotearoa
Tonight, 29th November from 5pm

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The Mills family had been farming on the picturesque and weather-protected shores of the vibrant turquoise Lake Wānaka in New Zealand's South Island for generations, but it was Rolfe Mills who was the first to venture into planting vines. His service during WWII had him positioned in Portugal, and the schist slopes of the Duoro Valley reminded him of his own home turf. Rolfe and Lois experimented with a number of cuttings they had nursed after a visit to France, finding that Pinot Noir felt most at home in its new world.

In 1987 the experimental phase saw Rolfe and Lois plant 12 rows to Gamay. It was used exclusively to make Rosé until their son Nick (who took over the winery in 2003) realised just how special the fruit from the ungrafted Gamay vines was. Nick started vinifying the fruit as a red wine that quickly gathered a cult following, his winemaking inspired by Beaujolais.

And special it was- wine critics and cult followers alike had often heralded the Rippon Gamay as being rather Pinot-esque.

In June, Nick decided to request a DNA analysis of the infamous vines. The results confirmed why the Gamay had been regarded, as Stephen Wong MW writes "unusually serious, age-worthy and structured for Gamay": turned out it is in fact an as-yet-unidentified clone of Pinot Noir!

Join us tonight as we take you on a little trip from New Zealand's North Island to its South with Urlar, Rippon and Escarpment, and come try the best Gamay you've never had!

On pour:

* Urlar Pinot Gris Gladstone 2024
* Urlar Sauvignon Blanc Gladstone 2022
* Rippon Sauvignon Blanc Lake Wānaka 2021
* Rippon "Gamay" Lake Wānaka 2022
* Rippon Mature Vine Pinot Noir Lake Wānaka 2019
* Escarpment Noir Martinborough 2021
* Escarpment Pinot Noir Martinborough 2020

22/11/2024

Metala Vertical Tasting

Wine Tasting Friday
Tonight 22nd November from 5pm

Join us tonight for a very special journey through time where we will explore the classic Shiraz-Cab blend from with vintages spanning the 70s, 80s, 90s and today.

Not to be missed!

On pour:

Metala Cabernet-Shiraz 1971
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 1981
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 1983
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 1988
Metala Cabernet-Shiraz 1993
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 1997
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 2022

15/11/2024

175 Years Young

Wine Tasting Friday
175 Years of Yalumba
Tonight, 15 November from 5pm

Peramangk Country has always been fertile and giving. The Peramangk People lived respectfully with the lands, gifted in return with an abundance of its resources.

And so when the European explorers happened upon this fertile and resourceful land that we now know as the Barossa Valley, they deemed it to be “fine cattle country”.

Initial contact was generally peaceful; the Peramangk people would provide their new pale-skinned neighbours with possum skins and shelters to keep them warm, teaching them how to identify edible plants as well as how to hunt possums.

Unfortunately though by the 1840s, the relationship was far from peaceful. So it comes a bit of a surprise that 175 years ago, in 1849, a recently arrived English brewer from Dorset would acknowledge the traditional owners of his land by naming his vineyard ‘Yalumba’, the Peramangk word for ‘all the countries around’.

But in the now six generations of family winemaking and custodianship since founder Samuel Smith planted the region’s first Shiraz vines 175 years ago, things have always been done a little differently at Yalumba. And in the mindset of their founding great-great-great grandfather, always with great respect for the past, and an even greater consideration for the future.

Join us for this special anniversary tasting of Yalumba as we look back on their 175 years and six generations of winemaking. Don’t miss the ‘Signature’ Aussie red, the institution that is the Cab-Shiraz blend, the flagship ‘Octavius’ Shiraz aged in Yalumba’s own Octave barrels, and of course, the ‘Menzies’ Cabernet, named for the Prime Minister who so loved it!

* GEN Organic Pinot Grigio 2024
* Eden Valley Roussane 2023
* Eden Valley Viognier 2022
* Eden Valley Chardonnay 2023
* Barossa Grenache 2023
* Barossa Galway Vintage Shiraz 2022
* Barossa Shiraz 2022
* The Octavius 2018
* The Signature 2021
* Sanctum 2021
* The Menzies 2019

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