WINE > Terra Sancta – Shingle Beach Pinot Noir

PREFACE The first think you notice with Terra Sancta wines is how the label jumps out at you, it is both bold and totally different to what you find from most Australian and New Zealand premium wines today and yet this could easily be a classic European bottle with its styling. This feels reflective…

ByCrispyMay 24, 20230Comments

EAT > SYDNEY EAT >

EAT > Parlar Restaurant – Potts Point

Over the years there have been some very fine eateries in Maclay Street, Potts Point. You could slip out of the sleaze of Kings Cross walking down Darlinghurst Road to arrive in the style of Potts Point, eat something delicious and then wind your way back to one of the many late night dens for…

ByEd ItorMay 20, 20230Comments

EAT > SYDNEY EAT >

EAT > Tetsuya’s Restaurant in Sydney CBD is moving – its the End of an Era

Tetsuya Wakuda AO started his restaurant of the same name in a townhouse in Rozelle in 1989 some 34 years ago, it was an immediate hit and he was at the very cutting edge of the Australian culinary scene. His brilliant precision in creating extraordinary dishes that blended fine French food with his Japanese origins…

ByEd ItorMay 17, 20230Comments

DESIGN

TRAVEL > A stylish designer hotel in the middle of a beautiful European winery – yes please.

The Loisium group have taken the concept of wine travel to new levels with incredible modern architecture in their designer hotels (built in the winery), outstanding cuisine, stunning furnishings and design in some of the worlds most beautiful wine regions. As you can imagine that has ticked a whole lot of our boxes (already in…

ByEd ItorMay 15, 20230Comments

DRINK > WINE > Cabernet Sauvignon DRINK > WINE

WINE > Petaluma Coonawarra – Evans Vineyard 1985

Recently I had the opportunity to collect a few vintage magnums of the classic Petaluma Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon Merlo blend, I was interested to see how well the wine was holding up especially in at the magnum format - I always recall some years back wine writer Phillip Rich saying to me "wine always tastes…

ByEd ItorMay 15, 20230Comments

CARS

DRIVE > IONIQ 6

Hang on are you really writing a review about a Hyundai car? How did that happen? Well, it may have sneaked up on you but Hyundai have gone from being a low cost entry level vehicle to high performing, fully featured brand offering quality motor vehicles. Yep sure I get…

ByEd ItorMay 13, 20230Comments

DRINK > WINE > Merlot DRINK > WINE

WINE > Paternoster ‘Heaven’s Door’ Merlot 2001

Ferreting around in the cellar and looking for a nice bottle to share with my father I found a bottle of Paternoster ‘Heaven’s Door Merlot’ sitting on a bottom shelf, it was a 2001 vintage. I vaguely remembered buying the wine from Cloud Wine in South Melbourne after one of Geoffrey’s wine tasting…

ByCrispyMay 12, 20230Comments

DRINK > WINE > Pinot Noir DRINK > WINE

WINE > Irrewarra Pinot Noir 2020

The Irrewarra Pinot Noir comes from grapes dry grown on a plot of land planted in 2001 by the Calvert family, in the Western Plains of Victoria. This wine made Nick Farr now also wine maker for ByFarr Wines. Nick Farr readily acknowledges the influence of his father (the legendary Gary Farr who established…

ByCrispyMay 10, 20230Comments

EAT > MELBOURNE EAT >

EAT > Trattoria Emilia (Melbourne)

Hidden away in a laneway, off another laneway you find Trattoria Emilia a traditional Italian restaurant that makes you feel warm and alive the moment you enter. The restaurant is in Gills Alley, the location formerly home to another fine Melbourne restaurant Gills Diner. It is a wonderful space with high…

ByEd ItorMay 10, 20230Comments

DESIGN

RIDE > Vello Sub – World’s Lightest E-Cargo Bike

Cargo bikes are a bit like a pack horse, they are not designed to go fast, rather they are designed to efficiently help the rider carry a significant load. By their nature they are heavy, stable and fairly slow, but all that changes with the new 'SUB' an E-Cargo bike from VELLO. Vello is…

ByEd ItorMay 9, 20230Comments

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