september & october tastings and events

1 Jolleys Lane Adelaide South Australia +61 8 8223 2891

just shucked Jolleys Boathouse September 1 to 14 This is a no rules event an available anytime from 12 noon on Monday to Friday you are invited come to the Restaurant to try the very best of South Australian and Australian Oysters. No need to commit to Lunch or Dinner, but the Restaurant will be open in the afternoons just for oyster indulgence. Four different varieties including an Angassi Native Australian Oyster, similar to the French Belon), Kumamoto Small Japanese Style Oyster harvested in Coffin Bay and only recently available, Pacific Different regions, Streaky Bay, Coffin Bay and Kangaroo Island and yes we’ll also have Sydney Rock from Pambula Lake, New South Wales. A special opportunity for the industry to get together 5.00pm till 7.00pm Sunday September 13 when apart from oysters and fizz a couple of guests will be opening a bottle or two Cossack style with a saber! Sound like fun? Of course it does!

30 champagne houses represented — national tastings fabulous value!

THE CHAMPAGNE BUREAU PRESENTS 2009 TRADE TASTING AND NATIONAL MASTER CLASS SERIES The Champagne Bureau will celebrate Spring with a series of Champagne master classes across Australia during the month of September.. Thirty Champagne houses will be represented at the Trade Tasting, showing a variety of cuvées from the Grand Marques to lesser known houses. Past winners of the prestigious Vin de Champagne Award will present the master classes in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth in a forum to taste and discuss a selection of non–vintage, vintage and other unique styles of Champagne wines.

MELBOURNE – Monday 7 September
The Prince Deck at Circa The Prince, 2 Acland Street, St Kilda
5.30 to 7.30pm
PRESENTERS Kate McIntyre & Martin Williams

ADELAIDE – Tuesday 8 September
The Apothecary, 118 Hindley Street, Adelaide
5 to 7pm
PRESENTERS Jim Smith & Dr Patrick Iland

BRISBANE – Tuesday 15 September
James St Cooking School, Mezzanine Level, James St Market
22 James Street, Fortitude Valley
5.30 to 7.30pm
PRESENTERS Bernadette O’Shea & Martin McAdam

PERTH – Wednesday 16 September
Must Wine Bar, 519 Beaufort Street, Highgate
5 to 7pm
PRESENTERS Peter Forrestal & Lexie Thompson

Bookings Lucy Nash 02 9555 8891 or email lucy@drysdalecommunications.com.au
Payment is required to secure bookings and all classes are $60 per person including GST
www.champagne-cic.com.au

october

South Australia - the Barossa Slow traditions & transitions a barossa Slow event Thursday October 1 to Sunday October 4, 2009

This unique event could not be better placed, in Australia at least, than the South Australian Barossa Valley. Steeped in the traditions of its original German migration, these immigrants truly understood sustainability. It is no small coincidence that there often small holdings backed onto a creek and that their small holdings provided not just everything they needed from wine to food, but where in themselves a complete ecco system. The preservation and reinvigoration of the original Hüffendorf farms most famous of which is Rockford Wines, Krondorf Garden and of course their Stonewall Table, where the menu is entirely governed by the produce available from their garden and anything they might have put down in the glut of a season.
A visit to the Tanunda Annual Show reinforces just how the region has clung to its culinary history with competitive entrees for everything from Beer, wine, traditional beer based German küchen to dahlias with heads bigger than my own (no rude remarks thanks guys!). It is a delightful region that abounds in fine wine and what they lack in restaurant offerings they well and truly make up for in home cooking.
This is where this event has been so spectacularly successful because many of the events go to the source of these traditions, to the farms and homes and the businesses of people who are totally committed to keeping these traditions alive.

Download the brochure by clicking here and visit their web site to make bookings for events www.barossa.comm

Just a sample of the intense passion for food and wine and agricultural traditions at the Tanunda Show, March 2009.

hot spots

In Adelaide and looking for something cool and fun to do
12th and 13th September, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September
8 pm at the Jade Monkey, Twin Street Adelaide and 3 pm at the Grace Emily, Waymouth Street, two of Adelaide’’s funkiest venues.
Large Number Twelve’s with Charlie Owen are in town, and we are releasing their wonderful album LONG TRAIN RIDE, recorded here in Adelaide. The 12’s have been playing in Melbourne, mainly around St Kilda for a long, long time and our informant Mick Wordley (mixmasters) was introduced to them by a great musician friend (he knows more than a few great musicians, who simply said “Today we are going to see the best pub band on the planet”. Having heard similar boastings many times, but what else does one do on a cold Sunday afternoon in Melbourne? As he walked in, Mick knew he recognized something... or someone ... Charlie Owen in the corner, and a noise coming from the tiny stage, that would rival Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out. Mick reckons his jaw is still on the floor somewhere at the Pint on Punt, St Kilda.
Since then he has recorded two fine albums with the band, and is delighted that they are coming across the border. So find your way out on a Saturday night, or a Sunday late afternoon, this is the band to enjoy, and take a trip of great authentic Australian urban songs.

On Saturday at the Jade Monkey, we are also celebrating Philip White’s (wine writer extraordinaire) birthday, and having a warm up for our album launch at the Grace Emily on Sunday, later that afternoon. $10 at the door, or $25 with a copy of the new record, you can BYO a bottle on the Sat night, for a reasonable corkage ($15), and beer, wine, spirits available at the bar. Bring some tucker or cheese etc if you wish, it's all good.
editor’s note — we think the latter needs a little explanation because we know that it is an uncommonly Australian practice to bring a plate. Don’t worry if you’re from out of town or overseas, scan the room for the best looking food and make friends!

Mick Wordley, mixmasters

Murdock Restaurant in the Barossa
Have you had the chance to try Murdock Restaurant in the Barossa? It's been running now almost 12 months. Went when it first opened and it had a long way to go but now the food's matured. Tapas-style menu with a few surprised - really good pan-fried tommy ruffs, croquettes, lamb brains (fried), 'galician' calamari etc. Food really tasted of what it was. Service is inexperienced but friendly and the wine list is limited to Murdock Wines (with an odd token or two thrown in). No salt and pepper on the table either! But all those things aside I'll be back in a flash. Definitely worth checking out if you're in the Barossa next time. An easy lunch - a couple of rounds of four plates seems to work well quantity wise for two people sharing. Total cost worked out to be about $50 per head + drinks which seemed very fair. Some diners seemed a bit confused by the concept of small, shared plates. A lot ordered two plates ea, ate them by themselves and disappointedly left…shrug!

Adrian Bennett, www.rooview.com.au — more hot spots

try this recipe passion fruit ice cream — with the addition of a tiny amount of Xanthan Gum we have been able to double the fruit content in our fruit and cream based ice creams and maintain a divinely smooth and creamy texture. Galaxy Guides Policy We support our suppliers for their integrity. We need them to care as much as we do, it makes the food we cook better. buy local

restaurant reviewing for september we’ve got a couple of new locals and two young guns on our reviewing list for September, so stay tuned to our weekly content. reviews and recipes are also published on a weekly basis in the Independent Weekly cooking school with a difference Chapel Hill Retreat

top — Joyce Guo with Stephen Henschke and left with John Duval, tasting the wines and meeting the faces behind the South Australian labels on the T8 wine list. To read more about this project of hosting young industry professionals for estage in South Australia www.sauchin.com

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