| Wine |
are you sick of shopping at wine stores, owned by cut-throat multinational companies, filled with the same old brands? us too!!We do things a little differently at The Beaufort Street Merchant. In fact if you can get a brand at Liquorland, Dan Murphies or BWS, chances are you won't find it in our wine section. We focus on the smaller boutique producers, at the premium end of the market, the funky, interesting, cutting edge wines, producers, techniques, varieties and brands. Its an eclectic, exciting range of closely considered, well researched wines (research is a tough job, but we apply ourselves diligently). Here is the wine list for the brasserie which shows wines we are currently pouring by the glass and a small cross section of the type of wines you will find in the wine section. ……sparkling louis bouillot rose..............................................................................................................$10 / $49 { one of the best little bubbles we’ve seen from france in years, fresh, forward, luscious } innocent bystander moscato (half bottle).............................................................................$22 { deliciouso bottle of fun!! jam packed full of red fruit sweetness with a light fizz to finish } ……white 08 bone tree hill sem sauv blanc – margaret river.................................................$6.50 / $28 { forget NZ sauv blanc, this is where its at, bright, tropical and effervescent } 08 oleary walker watervale riesling – watervale..........................................................$9 / $35 { these guys are at the forefront of clare riesling – nervous, limey and bone dry } 06 sepp gruner veltliner – Austria.................................................................................$10 / $39 { yeah, we can’t pronounce it either, bloody delicious though, fleshy, spicy, textural } 07 tscharke girl talk albarino – barossa.........................................................................$9 / $35 { wowzers, big wine here, all about unctuous, ripe, generous stonefruits } 06 drouhin st veran – burgundy.....................................................................................$10 / $40 { so 100% chardonnay, not much fruit punch, its all limestone and minerality, very lean } 07 the yard 24 road chardonnay – margaret river.....................................................$11 / $44 { right at the other end of the chardy spectrum to the above wine, warm and rounded } 08 kooyong “beurrot” pinot gris....................................................................................$15 / $65{ I can hear all you wine geeks oowing and ahhing, yes we know they only made 200 six packs, we had to beg toget 6 bottles. We reckon this is Australia’s best pinot gris, it has loads of glycerolly power, awesome mouthfeel but then it rips in to line with this bright line of acid, kinda like a fat man in a tight yellow suit } ……hens teeth selection 06 leeuwin art series chardonnay – margaret river..........................................................$104 { look we reckon this is the greatest white wine ever made in australia, supremely long and intense, divine drinking } ……red 06 bone tree hill cab merlot – margaret river...................................................... $6.50 / $28 { 06 in margs was awful, but these guys are further north and picked before the rains } 07 ad hoc hiatus pinot noir – pemberton................................................................... $8 / $34 { really good fun wine, not your tight french style pinot at all, more garrulous and upfront } 07 luchador shiraz – barossa........................................................................................ $8 / $32 {an absolute brute of a wine, glares up at you inkily from the glass, lashings of fruit, oak and attitude} 08 sc pannell “pronto” – maclaren.............................................................................. $9 / $36 { one of the best food wines going around, both dusty and fleshy at the same time } 06 plan de pegau – cotes du rhone............................................................................ $11 / $45{ super traditional style rhone, very dry and austere, has class and length } 07 heartland dolcetto lagrein – maclaren.................................................................. $9 / $35 { If you like your big reds then this ones for you – velvety, plush, overtly guzzlable } 05 chapelle de calon – st estephe, bourdeaux....................................................... $16 / $79 { st estephe is one of the four left bank regions in bourdeaux, it produces cabernet predominant wines and sophistication and pedigree. 05 was a ridiculously good year, producing wines of intensity, structure, length and grip. We rank calon as one of the rising stars and a great insight in to the elegance of bordeaux } ……hens teeth selection 06 agly brothers – cotes du rousillion................................................................................ $53 { snazzy little red from the south as france, shiraz and grenache, dusty and earthy with a ripe peppery middle } 07 tsarchke “the curse” zinfandel – maclaren................................................................. $48 { its just not natural, there is so much weight stuffed in to this little bottle, its raisiny, brackeny and feral... grrr} 05 uvaggio – piedmonte......................................................................................................... $73 { so much tannin here, it feels like a black hole forms every time you take a sip, grape variety is nebbiolo } 05 dufort vivens – margaux................................................................................................. $138 { this is the merlot equivalent to the chapelle de calon (above), it’s graceful, seamless, very sophisticated } |