Cellar Night At The Met Club

Australian Wines Rock!
What a wonderful evening at the Met Club last night. Dan Killey from the Grateful Palate was in for Cellar Night to share some of their delicious Australian wines.

Great wines and I loved their attention to detail on the labeling process. Clearly they value the artistic value of the labels bringing in up-and-coming artists as well as veteran artists to add a distinctive look to all their wines. Very innovative and well designed.

We sampled 6 wines:

R Wines, Roogle 2008 Riesling *** very light and dry, not too sweet, lovely

R Wines, Darby and Joan 2008 Chardonnay * not a fan of Chard's in general, other folks seemed to enjoy this one

R Wines, Permutations 2007 Pinot Noir *** good solid Pinot

Trevor Jones, Boots 2007 Grenache **** very nice

R Wines, First Class 2006 Shiraz ***** really enjoyed this one

Trevor Jone, Dry Grown, 2004 Shiraz **** French Oak

Chef Sean once again did a great job on the food pairings. We have a lovely duck with froie gras sauce and crispy taters. Just lovely with the Pinot Noir we tasted. Also enjoyed the salmon in plum sauce which was amazingly just perfect with the First Class Shiraz.

Dan did a great job explaining the history of Australian wines and Grateful Palate. They have a terrific wine selection all very moderately priced. We ordered some First Class Shiraz and the Reisling. Bonus prize - if you're into bacon (who doesn't like bacon), you should check out their bacon of the month club sounds fun.

Thanks to Marcus and Dan, we learned alot and really enjoyed the wine!!