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17/07/2024

Meet the Maker!

Wine Tasting Friday with Brian Freeman
FREEMAN VINEYARDS
19th July from 5pm
Chat with Brian from 5:30pm

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- Sour Cherries.
- Dried Plums.
- Green Almonds.

These delicacies of the Prunus genus are all synonymous with the town of Young and its surrounds, grown in the fertile fruit bowl of the southern NSW region known as Hilltops.

But did you know they also make up the aroma profile of descriptors for the Italian grape variety, Corvina?

This Friday we explore the unique plantings of Corvina and its blending partner Rondinella which, thanks to Brian, have successfully made their long journey from the Valpolicella region of Veneto, Italy to thrive in their Hilltops home of Prunevale!

Join us as we chat with Brian from 5:30pm, discussing everything Prunevale, from the town’s historic influences of “pruning” on his wines, to the literal pruning of his vines!

On pour:

- Freeman Bianco Pinot Grigio 2023
- Freeman Altura Vineyard Fiano 2023
- Freeman Altura Vineyard Furmint 2023
- Freeman Rosso Corvina Rondinella 2022
- Freeman Altura Vineyard Sangiovese 2021
- Freeman Altura Vineyard Nebbiolo 2022
- Freeman Secco Rondinella Corvina 2017
- Freeman Robusta Corvina 2015

12/07/2024

All Fired Up: Hot & Spicy Grenache

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Wine Tasting Friday
An exploration of Grenache
Tonight, July 12th from 5pm

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Looking for some warmth to ease the winter chill this weekend?

Across Australia, people are celebrating this year’s NAIDOC theme of “Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud” by gathering around the spirited dancing embers for a yarn, sharing stories of tradition, of culture, of knowledge, of song, of dance, of art, of language, and of a proud continuing connection to country.

And whilst the home fires are burning, Paris is burning!
Or at least Sydney is…

Our burning desire for the je ne sais quoi will be inflamed this weekend as Sydney unofficially becomes the 21st arrondissement of Paris. All of that Bastille Day celebrating and associated beret-donning, joie de vivre-ing going on around the city is enough to make you see red.
And blanc. And bleu... 🇫🇷

And at Strand Cellars we are firing up your Friday with the hot and spicy Grenache grape, renowned for producing wines of warming alcohol and delicious spice.

Join us tonight as we explore Grenache across the dimensions of time and space, through vine age and through terroir, across South Australia, with a few Frenchies for good measure.

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On pour:

* Domaine La Ferme du Mont Première Côte Grenache-Syrah-Mouvèdre, Côtes du Rhône, France 2019
* Domaine La Réméjeanne Un Air de Réméjeanne Grenache-Syrah, Côtes du Rhône, France 2019
* Corryton Burge Grenache, Barossa 2022
* Ben Murray Wines Anima Reserve Grenache, Barossa 2021
* Willunga 100 Grenache, Barossa 2021
* d’Arenberg The Derelict Vineyard Grenache, McLaren Vale 2019
* Agathist Alchemy Second Wine Grenache, Barossa 2017
* Head Wines Ancestor Vine Grenache, Eden Valley 2015

05/07/2024

The carnival is over…
… back to business as usual!

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Wine Tasting Friday
KILIKANOON
Tonight, 5th July from 5pm

Check list:

✅ Wine delivery: Complete

✅ Socials posting: Pending

✅ Good times: Guaranteed

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On pour:

* Brut Vouvray NV
* Mort’s Block Watervale Riesling 2023
* Skilly Valley Block Pinot Gris 2023
* Killerman’s Run Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2022
* Killerman’s Run Shiraz 2020
* Killerman’s Run Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
* Prodigal Grenache 2022
* Covenant Shiraz 2019
* Blocks Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
* Oracle Shiraz 2016

27/06/2024

Party Hardy’s:
25 Years of Strand Cellars in Reflection

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The definitive Wine Tasting Friday of the (quarter) century!
Friday 28th June
From 5pm

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How could a family business survive for 25 years without the foundation of family?

The value of family support is mirrored in the way Anthony and Vlad operate Strand Cellars. In their independent selection of beverages, there is no mistaking just how much value these family men, Anthony and Vlad, place on supporting the family narrative.

Across the locally and internationally produced beers, wines and spirits with which they choose to stock their shelves, from young families just starting out with a new brewery, winery or distillery, to their support of Australia’s First Families of Wine, each product has a story Anthony and Vlad are passionate to share at the tasting table at our Wine Tasting Fridays.

So it fits that the theme for this week’s Wine Tasting Friday is Family, and with 25 years to celebrate, Anthony and Vlad are pulling out the big guns, or as we like to call them, magnums.

On pour:

* Champagne Henri Abelé NV Brut, Reims, Magnum
* Champagne Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque 2014, Epernay
* Fighting Gully Road Chardonnay 2018, Beechworth
* Strand Cellars Shiraz 2022, Barossa
* d’Arenberg d’Arry’s Original 2008, McLaren Vale, Magnum
* Paringa Estate Reserve Shiraz 2006, Mornington Peninsula
* Hardy’s Eileen Hardy Shiraz 2021, McLaren Vale
* Hardy’s Thomas Hardy 2020, Margaret R & McLaren Vale
* Hardy’s Vintage Fortified 2008, McLaren Vale
* Glenfarclas 15 Year Old Single Malt Whisky, Speyside

Come join Anthony and Vlad for the festivities as we raise a glass to the last 25 years of memories as part of the Croydon Community, with our home on The Strand!

25/06/2024

Stranded Together for 25 Years!

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Happy Silver Anniversary

Congratulations Anthony and Vlad, serving the Croydon Community for 25 years- what a team!

Just a small business thriving on the foundations of family, community, Wine Tasting Fridays and the odd chinwag.

Today we raise a glass to you two fellers of The Cellars, for your hospitality, your energy and your passion over the last 25 years… And beyond!

Cheers Anthony and Vlad!

With love,
The Croydon Community

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20/06/2024

A Burge-oning Relationship

Wine Tasting Friday
GRANT BURGE
Friday 21st June from 5pm

The name Grant Burge needs no introduction at Strand Cellars.

Nor does Grant’s face: it greets you every time you enter the store, the larger-than-life picture of Grant smiling down over The Strand from the store’s arched window.

Yes, really is a household name at Strand Cellars, a favourite of Anthony and Vlad, and of course, many of our customers. Although Grant might not actually own his name these days, the “accolades” of his legacy are carried on today through his winemaker whom has worked under the Burge name for the last thirty years, Craig Stansborough.

As we reflect on our own history with Anthony and Vlad celebrating the store’s Silver Anniversary next week, Strand Cellars has certainly been honoured to receive visits by Grant and Helen Burge over the years. Grant’s cellar visits have showcased not only his eponymously named wine brand, but also the family’s latest chapter that sees Grant mentoring his children Trent and Amelia, now the sixth generation of Burge Family winemaking.

For Anthony, some of the most memorable of the winemaker nights he has hosted in The Cellar were Grant and Helen’s visits in 2012 and again in 2016. And so for this week’s Wine Tasting Friday, Anthony has raided his own cellar, to open up a few bottled up memories from these visits...
.. Namely the Filsell and Nebu each from 2016, and the Corryton Park along with the flagship Barossan Shiraz, named after Grant’s great-grandfather, the Meshach from 2012.

Let’s see what other memories might come flooding back (in moderation, of course) with a mystery wine or two!

On pour this Friday:

* Grant Burge The Holy TrinityGSM 2021
* Grant Burge Filsell Old Vine Shiraz 2016
* Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz 2012
* Grant Burge Shadrach Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
* Grant Burge Nebu Cabernet Shiraz 2016
* Grant Burge Corryton Park Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
* Grant Burge 10 Year

14/06/2024

Blending into the Wood-lands

Wine Tasting Friday
WOODLANDS MARGARET RIVER WINERY
Tonight 14th June from 5pm

With the celebrations of Strand Cellars’ Silver Anniversary just two weeks away, this week we raise a glass to the wine trade itself.

Cheers to the rewarding relationships forged over the last quarter of a century with the growers and makers responsible for producing wine, and the distributors responsible for getting it to us! 🍷

One such family business is

Established by David and Heather Watson in 1973, it is today run by their sons Andrew and Stuart, and distributed across the continent to the Strand Cellars boys by Michael and Matthew at

Through the amicable business dealings with Michael, our Croydon Community has been lucky enough to meet Andrew from Woodlands not just once in the flesh at an event in the cellar in 2014, but again virtually during the isolating times of 2021 via Zoom. The latter was orchestrated by .girl all the way from her home in the Rhône. As Anthony has always explained, “we don’t move quickly at Strand Cellars”, and with all the changes going on around Croydon, who would want us to, but fortunately Stephanie has been there to help support the family business by stepping up the pace and bringing it to a new and virtual dimension.

The professional relationships that Anthony, Vlad and Stephanie all nurture are integral in bringing the incredible wines, with their stories, from across Australia and the world, to our Tasting Table.

On pour tonight:

* Woodlands Wilyabrup Chardonnay 2023
* Woodlands Brook Vineyard Chardonnay 2021
* Woodlands Wilyabrup Cabernet Franc Merlot 2020
* Woodlands Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2020
* Woodlands Malbec 2018
* Woodlands Clémentine 2019
* Woodlands Margaret 2018
* Woodlands Matthew 2014
* The Mystery

06/06/2024

The French Alliance

Wine Tasting Friday:
MIRACLE HILL
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Date: Friday 7th of June
When: From 5pm
Zoom Chat, live from France: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
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Political deals and rugby matches aside, our liaisons with the French are not always dangereuses...

Sometimes we just like to talk dirty.

Yes, I’m talking about terroir, if you can pardon my French.

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Kilikanoon was built upon Kevin Mitchell’s fascination with dirt, or rather terroir, and a small orchestra of investors and consultants who shared his vision including David Adams, Bruce Baudinet and cellist extraordinaire, Nathan Waks. 🎻

In 2007 this vision saw the little Clare Valley winery expand its views to France, with the creation of an “Alliance” between Kilikanoon and the terroirs of both Hermitage and Crozes-Hermitage. 🇫🇷

Back home, and some years earlier, professional winery finance and business guru to Torbreck, Kilikanoon and so on, David Adams sought out then boss Brian Croser of Petaluma’s counsel in the sight selection of a property. As a result, David purchased in 1991. 🍇

But David’s liaisons with Kilikanoon were not purely numbers-based. As David explains, the Wine Advocate himself Robert Parker “asked Nathan Waks if Kilikanoon had access to Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale grapes to produce a wine of similar quality and price as its already prestigious and much awarded Clare Valley Oracle Shiraz.

Kilikanoon produced the M Shiraz from McLaren Vale, sourced from the Miracle Hill vineyard from 2007, with the name changing to Kilikanoon Miracle Hill Shiraz in 2010. The 2010 wine recived 95+ points from the Wine Advocate”. 🍷

Join us Friday evening as we cross live to our alliances in SA and in France, with Bec Adams introducing us to the McLaren Vale vineyard, and David Adams and Nathan Waks, from their Loire Valley vantage point, sharing with us their incredible history from their days at Kilikanoon to today’s chapter at Miracle Hill!

31/05/2024

POV: tilt shifting perspectives in South Australia

Wine Tasting Friday
PETALUMA & WILLUNGA 100
31st May from 5pm

The Parallex Effect: the simple intoxicating pleasure one experiences when being driven soberly past a vineyard.

Looking down the rows of neatly trained vines, conformist in their parallel lines along their rigid trellis. They whiz by. To the backseat observer, the vines in the foreground seem to speed up whilst the negative spaces in the background seemingly fail to keep up, creating a mesmerising contrast of light and shadow.

But in McLaren Vale, this vision is often blurred.

Old Grenache grows beyond the neat order of the trellis; it grows as a bush, in 3D chaos, obscuring the optical illusion typically created by the parallel rows.

Throughout its history, the wine industry of South Australia has benefitted from its people adopting the principles of the Parallex effect, that is, shifting their viewpoint to get a better measure on the horizon.

Willunga 100 sources old bush vine Grenache from the Smart family who fortunately ignored the SA government’s scheme of the 1980s to pull ancient, rich yet “underperforming” vines. From their perspective they could see a much brighter future for their now centenarian vines.

Likewise Brian Croser saw things through a different lens when he and Ann found a neglected apple orchard in the Piccadilly Valley, close planted it to Chardonnay, and established the infamous Tiers Vineyard in 1979, thereby reigniting a new generation of wine growing in the Adelaide Hills. The philosophy of Brian Croser across all of his projects has always been to grow grapes with a shifting viewpoint that best suits the grapes themselves, from the Piccadilly Chardonnay, to Riesling grown in the Clare Valley, and Cabernet grown in Coonawarra.

Join us tonight as we explore the history and unique terroirs of South Australia, mesmerised by the shift from not one but two wineries.

24/05/2024

A Fling in the Highlands

Torbreck Vintners
Wine Tasting Friday
24th of May from 5pm

And in this week's history of high-flung capers and far-tossed cabers...

From the late Middle Ages until the Highland Clearances throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries, land was distributed in the Highlands of Scotland by the old clan system known as RunRig.

The cultivated ridges (or rigs) were farmed by a tenant, and these rigs were periodically reassigned amongst the tenanting clansmen so that no individual would have the advantage of continual usage of the best strip of land. Sharing is caring and whatnot.

Dave Powell named his first wine RunRig, a nod to his formative years spent as a Highland Woodcutter in the Torbreck forests near Inverness. So enamoured he was by the view from atop the rugged peaks of the Struie, looking over the old Steading farmhouses and barns that were once managed by the Factors of the estates, in the unrelenting countryside where the wild and hardy Kyloe Highland cattle fold.

But just as the RunRig system experienced when money became involved, tenure is like a fling: never permanent, and the old caber was tossed. Torbreck might have moved on to a different clan chief, but what has remained regardless of any bad blood spilt is the original drive to create Rhône-style wines with old vines through minimal intervention, layered in Barossan history, complexity, power and elegance.

On pour:
* Woodcutter's Semillon 2023
* Woodcutter's Shiraz 2022
* Cuvée Juveniles Grenache Blend 2022
* Kyloe Mataro 2021
* The Steading Blanc RMV 2022
* The Steading GSM 2018
* The Struie Shiraz 2022
* The Descendant Shiraz 2018
* The Factor Shiraz 2018
* The RunRig Shiraz/Viognier 2020

Slàinte Mhath,
The Strand Cellars Clanspeople

21/05/2024

Shivering me timbers…

Warm up the week with a Yo, Ho, Ho & Botany Rum!

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Banks & Solander
Spirits Tasting Thursday
23rd May 2024
4:30pm - 7pm

Plus Meet the Maker at 6pm!
Banks & Solander Co-Founder Ed will appear live via Zoom to answer your spirited questions!

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At Strand Cellars we have been loving the distilled scientific study of Botany that is

Native flavours of Macadamia, Strawberry Gum, Pepperberry and Wattle Seed all feature in the bouquet of the Signature Gin and the Fig Gin, whilst Lemon Myrtle gives the Limoncello a distinctly homegrown twist. And each batch of their Noir coffee liqueur laboriously requires 15L of real espresso brewed from quality beans, but for Marty and Ed, this is a labour of love, and when it comes to quality, the biscuits will attest: there is no substitute.

But the X that really puts them on the spotlight this week is their Rum: the Cask Strength Rum was just awarded not only a Gold, but World’s Best Hybrid Still at the World Rum Awards 2024!

Come be the judge yourself this Thursday, joining Lucas in-store from 4:30pm as he pours:

* Banks & Solander Limecello
* Banks & Solander Limoncello
* Banks & Solander Kumquatcello
* Banks & Solander Gin
* Banks & Solander Fig Gin
* Banks & Solander Noir Coffee Liqueur
* Solander Rum Company White
* Solander Rum Company Cask Strength Rum

18/05/2024

Max’s Muse

What an incredible treat to cap off our tasting last night with Peter sharing not one, but two precious pearls from his cellar!

In 1949, Penfolds’ winemaker Max Schubert was sent to study Sherry production in Spain as a service to the strengthening fortified market back home.

He took a side quest to France to taste some table wines, namely the aged Bordelaise beauties of three first growth estates: Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Latour and Château Margaux, and study the secrets of how they were made to withstand the tests of time.

And so was born Penfolds Grange.

What an honour it was to share Peter’s cellared delights with our customers at our Wine Tasting Friday!

The Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon from 1966 was drinking beautifully in all its tertiary-evolved goodness, and the validation that Max Schubert’s visits to his Médoc muses were not in vain; the 58 year old wine was in superb condition!

But at just shy of half a century old, the Château Margaux 1978 was so elegant in her maturity. Such a grande dame, aged to perfect!

16/05/2024

Cellaring potential to the Max!

Wine Tasting Friday
Penfolds
17th May from 4pm

Max Schubert had a dream.

To “produce a wine which could stand on its feet throughout the world and would be capable of improvement year by year for a minimum of 20 years”.

Well, this week, we put the dream, innovation and skill of the Penfolds pioneering winemaker to the test with a taste of a wine made by Max himself, not just twenty, but almost sixty years ago in 1966!

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Join us tonight to taste the legacy of these Penfold’s Bins.

On pour:
* Bin 51 Eden Valley Riesling 2023
* Bin 311 Chardonnay 2018
* Bin 23 Tasmania Pinot Noir 2022
* Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz 2019
* Bin 28 Shiraz 2021
* Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz 2018
* Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2019
* St Henri Shiraz 2018
* Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 1966
* Grandfather Rare Tawny 2020

10/05/2024

Wine Tasting Friday
Yalumba
Tonight, 10th May from 5pm

Peramangk Country has always been fertile and giving. So when the European explorers happened upon this nurturing and resourceful land that we now know as the Barossa Valley, they deemed it to be “fine cattle country”.

Initially contact between the two worlds was described as peaceful; the Peramangk 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 by the 1840s however, the relationship was far from peaceful. The colonists’ Smallpox was plaguing the indigenous population the country over, and the impacts of the European systems of grazing, agriculture, and rerouting of the waterways were causing havoc on the harmonious ways in which the Peramangk celebrated Country.

And so it comes a bit of a surprise that in 1849, a recently arrived English brewer from Dorset, who thought he’d give winemaking a bit of a go in his idyllic adopted climate, would (at a time when other settlers were naming everything eponymously) 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, with a sense of place, and “all the countries around” Eden Valley, Barossa Valley and Coonawarra.

Join us as we taste history, with the trailblazing Viognier and the “Signature” Aussie Red Blend, and raise a glass* to our longest serving PM and outspoken fan of Yalumba with “The Menzies” Cabernet Sauvignon.

(*Glass pouring might not be so liberal).

06/05/2024

What a tasting last Friday!

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Our compliments to our resident chef Michael, and Chantal, for treating us all to such delicious food to accompany our tasting. The citric elegance of the 2017 Vat 1 was a beautiful match to Michael’s spiced prawns as were the 2021 Vat 8 and the mystery, blind-served, stellar-vintaged 2014 Stevens Shiraz to the spiced beef. Yum!

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And a special thanks to both Peter and Tony for sharing their cellared treasures, spanning 20 years between bottles (!) as our blind wines:

Peter’s 1984 Vat47 was aged to absolute perfection with its rich and complex notes of tertiary dried fruits, but the show stopper was Tony’s 1964 Sparkling “Burgundy” from - bottle-aged for 17 years before being disgorged in 1983, what it lacked today in pop, it sure made up in pep!

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Each such a valuable lesson to our tasters into why patience (and good cellaring) is such a virtue!

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02/05/2024

A fine balancing act

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Wine Tasting Friday
Tyrrell’s
Tonight 3/5 from 5pm

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Star Anise, Cloves, Cinnamon, Fennel Seeds or Ginger and Sichuan Pepper.

Individually these five aromatic spices are very potent, but when combined they are greater than the sum of their parts, producing a harmonious blend of cooling and warming elements of the Chinese Five Spice.

Together the five spices excite all of the components of taste (sweet, bitter, sour, salty and umami), and are said to correspond to the five traditional Chinese elements of nature: wood, fire, earth, metal and water.

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In both viti- and viniculture, the harmonious balance of these elements is essential. In the vineyard, ideal growing conditions favour mature and hardy vines (wood) exposed to just the right amount of sun (fire), with roots reaching deep into either free-draining or moisture-retaining soils (earth) with just the right mix of nutrient minerals (metal), adequately rejuvenated by just the right amount of rain (water).

For the winemaker, balance of flavour can be achieved through maturation of the wine in various vessels, such as barrel (wood) and consequently the amount the inside of that barrel is charred (fire), amphora or terracotta pots (earth), stainless steel tank (metal) as well as manipulation of fermentation conditions such as cold soaking by refrigeration (water).

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Join us tonight as we taste five still wines from Tyrrell’s, prospering from the sparkling wine and a mystery or two in addition, all harmoniously balanced by a little treat:

Five Spiced nibbles provided by Strand Cellar’s resident chef Michael.

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On pour:
• Blanc de Blancs 2015
• Estate Grown Chardonnay 2022
• Estate Grown Shiraz 2021
• Vat 1 Semillon 2017
• Vat 47 Chardonnay 2021
• Vat 8 Shiraz Cabernet 2021

25/04/2024

Stepping Up Behind the Red-Stripes
d’Arenberg
Wine Tasting Friday
Tonight, 26th April from 5pm

The Osborn family of d'Arenberg have been growing grapes in McLaren Vale for four generations. For this week’s tasting we share the story of Frank, father of d’Arry and grandfather of Chester.

In August 1915, just four months on from the disastrous launch of the Gallipoli campaign, Francis Ernest (Frank) Osborn, a McLaren Vale local, volunteered for active service at the front.

Despite suffering poor health, the 27 year old was deemed fit for service, and was proud to have enlisted. Frank farewelled his family and set off for England in June 1916 as second lieutenant in the 43rd Battalion of the Australian Imperial Forces.

Frank was promoted to first lieutenant in December 1916, and joined the 41st, 42nd and 44th battalions of the 11th Brigade in holding the battle line around Saint-Omer, near Calais. However, with his poor health aggravated by the cold and wet weather of Normandy, Frank was quickly evacuated from the trenches and shipped back to London to be diagnosed with rheumatism. Six months later, Frank was sent back home in November 1917, and eventually discharged as his persistent rheumatism was deemed “unfit for service at home or abroad”.

And so began his life as a Vigneron of The Vale.

Come, this day after Anzac Day to hear the red-striped stories behind:

- d’Arenberg The Stump Jump White Blend 2021
- d’Arenberg The Stump Jump Red Blend 2020
- d’Arenberg The Money Spider Roussanne 2022
- d’Arenberg d’Arry’s Original Grenache Shiraz 2020
- d’Arenberg The Footbolt Shiraz 2021
- d’Arenberg The Ironstone Pressings GSM 2012

18/04/2024

Vieni! Vedi! Vinci! Vini Venerdì!

Come! See! Conquer!
Friday Wines!
Vinitaly Competition comes to The Strand!
19th April 2024

This week, wine professionals from all over the globe will set on their annual pilgrimage to the balconied Italian city of Verona for the world's largest wine show: Vinitaly.

Well, we don't expect you for fork out for a flight to Italy.
Nor do we expect you to be a wine professional.

No, this week, we will bring the wines of Italy to you!

Join us this Friday as we tour around Il Bel Paese, the self-proclaimed "Beautiful Country" that is Italy, home to literally hundreds and hundreds of native wine varieties.

Indulge us though as we present only a select few, from Pecorino, the little sheepish grape of Abruzzo in the east, to Pinot Grigio, everyone's favourite grey grape of Friuli in the north, and Sangiovese, the great grape named for the blood of Jupiter that flourishes in the romance of growing under the Tuscan sun.

Come taste and hear the stories of:
• De Lorenzi Pinot Grigio 2020, Friuli Venzia Giulia
• Contesa Pecorino 2021, Abruzzo
• Guasti Clemente Gavi 2022, Piedmont
• De Lorenzi Cabernet Franc 2020, Friuli Venzia Giulia
• Il Palagio Chianti Classico 2016, Tuscany
• La Fiorita Rosso di Montalcino 2020, Tuscany
• Il Vino Misterioso ???

Zoom Video Meeting with Craig Thompson our man on the ground, importer of these wines and one half of Ben Murray Wines Barossa Valley another favourite at Strand Cellars live from Italy 6:00 to 6:30pm.

Wine Tasting Details:
Date: Friday 19th April 2024
When: From 5pm
Where: At our tasting table

So just come along this no doubt will be a bit of fun
The Strand Cellars Ragazzi Anthony, Vlad & Mitchell

11/04/2024

Corryton Burge
Wine Tasting Friday
12th April 2024

The Burge Family need no introduction at Strand Cellars: visiting himself numerous times over the years for tastings and dinners in The Cellar, Grant Burge's photo proudly looks over The Strand, greeting customers as they enter the store.

Corryton Burge is the latest chapter in the family's long Barossan history, named for their Corryton Park Homestead of Eden Valley.

With a pair of statues posted at the gates to the homestead, and a stylised depiction adorning the label to each bottle in the range, the leo-aqiline mythical creature that is the Griffin is charged with guarding the Burge family's legendary treasures: their formidable family history in Barossan winemaking spanning now six generation (kin), and their connections in the friendships they have forged in this long history with winemakers and growers in the region and surrounds (kith).

Come Kith and Kin to join Cath as we she shares the wines of Corryton Burge, with perhaps a legendary treasure or two of our own...

Corryton Burge Kith Collection:
• Eden Valley Riesling 2023
• Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris 2022
• Barossa Grenache 2022
• Barossa Shiraz 2021
Corryton Burge Kin Collection:
• The Patroness Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2021
• Cornelian Bay Tasmania Pinot Noir 2020
• Percival Norman Barossa Valley Shiraz 2020
• The Brigadier Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

Wine Tasting Details:
Date: Friday 12th April 2024
When: From 5pm
Where: At our tasting table

Cath, Kith & Kin of Strand Cellars

11/04/2024

Wine Tasting Friday
Corryton Burge
12th April from 5pm

The Burge Family need no introduction at Strand Cellars: visiting himself numerous times over the years for tastings and dinners in The Cellar, Grant Burge’s photo proudly looks over The Strand, greeting customers as they enter the store.

Corryton Burge is the latest chapter in the family’s long Barossan history, named for their Corryton Park Homestead of Eden Valley.

With a pair of statues posted at the gates to the homestead, and a stylised depiction adorning the label to each bottle in the range, the leo-aqiline mythical creature that is the Griffin is charged with guarding the Burge family’s legendary treasures: their formidable family history in Barossan winemaking spanning now six generation (kin), and their connections in the friendships they have forged in this long history with winemakers and growers in the region and surrounds (kith).

Come Kith and Kin to join Cath as we she shares the wines of Corryton Burge, with perhaps a legendary treasure or two of our own...

Corryton Burge Kith Collection:
• Eden Valley Riesling 2023
• Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris 2022
• Barossa Grenache 2022
• Barossa Shiraz 2021

Corryton Burge Kin Collection:
• The Patroness Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2021
• Cornelian Bay Tasmania Pinot Noir 2020
• Percival Norman Barossa Valley Shiraz 2020
• The Brigadier Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

04/04/2024

The Paringa is Back!

Wine Tasting Friday
Paringa Estate
Friday 5th April from 5pm

1983: what a time for some big, bold, outside-the-box ideas in Australia!

Keating was floating the dollar, Hawke was flaunting the jacket, and Colin Hay’s flautist was flouting the laws of copyright, with our larrikin of a kookaburra eventually getting the last laugh.

And 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, thereby founding Paringa Estate Winery & Restaurant

At Strand Cellars we have long been fans of the Paringa story and Lindsay’s legacy in the Mornington, with very fond memories of hosting Lindsay in our cellar to present his wines to our Croydon community back in 2018, and the life-size photo of Lindsay and his son and now head winemaker Jamie, proudly decorating our front window, looking over The Strand.

We recently had the pleasure of tasting through Jamie’s latest vintage, and we are so excited to have these wines back in our store to share with you this week at our Wine Tasting Friday!

On tasting:
• Paringa Estate Peninsula Chardonnay 2023
• Paringa Estate Peninsula Pinot Noir 2023
• Paringa Estate Peninsula Shiraz 2020
• Paringa Estate Riesling 2022
• Paringa Estate Pinot Noir 2020
• Paringa Estate Shiraz 2019
• Paringa Estate The Paringa Shiraz 2019

Address

12 The Strand
Sydney, NSW
2132

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 9pm
Tuesday	10am - 9pm
Wednesday	10am - 9pm
Thursday	10am - 9pm
Friday	10am - 10pm
Saturday	10am - 10pm
Sunday	10am - 8pm

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