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Scary picture eh?
Wrapped around the Good Living for today, March 4
was the special for
NSW
Wine Week. An event that includes the Good Living Sydney
Cellar Door, an outdoor wine festival showcasing NSW wines
to be held in Sydney's Hyde Park (South) on Sunday March 9
from 11am-6pm.
There are also restaurants featured in
The Sydney Morning Herald
Good Food Guide that offer a special meal for lunch and
dinner matched with a glass of premium NSW wine. And of
interest to Regional Foodies, top Sydney restaurants team up
with country chef's for
showcase dinners. These include Balzac Chef Matt Kemp
with
Regional Chef Tony Worland, from Tonic Restaurant Milthorpe
(one of our favourite Orange district towns).
There's an important mission here. As editor Sue Bennett
says (I think it's her voice but she's on holiday at the
moment so maybe not) "NSW produces one third of Australia's
wine, but only 13% of the wines offered in NSW restaurants
are local."
The Hon. David Campbell (NSW Minister for Police and
Minister for the Illawarra) endeared himself to us with his story at
the Top 40 NSW wines event about berating the sommelier
at a restaurant where he was lunching who had no NSW wines
on their wine list. He said 'If you haven't got a NSW wine,
I'll just have water thanks'.
But then someone does a cover like that at left. You can see
the thinking, need to hook young people etc. But that's just
awful, stagy - handbag, bottle placement, white cloths and
no food and the mannequin dummy by the window...
shudder.
FH 4 March 2008
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