Wines by the glass

By the Glass - Champagne & Sparkling Wine

NV Veuve Cliquot "Brut" Champagne (Reims, France) $25
Brut Yellow Label has an intense, pleasant fragrance, with fruit and brioche notes. Well-balanced and pleasantly fresh to taste, with a remarkable fruity structure. Yellow Label is the epitome of the Veuve Clicquot style. Brut Yellow Label is the perfect apertif, and a welcome accompaniment for meal of seafood or fish.

NV Louis Bouillot Blanc de Blancs (Cremant de Bourgogne, France) $12
The mouth is crisp with a bright acidity playing beautifully alongside flavors of pink grapefruit.

By the Glass - White Wines

2008 Howard Park Riesling (Great Southern, Western Australia) $11
Pithy lime and mineral texture balanced by clean acidity.

2008 Xanadu Chardonnay (Margaret River, Western Australia) $12
Displays powerful natural fermentation aromas with a wonderful funky complexity and power. Intense and controlled with effortless length. Mineral thread with fine acid.

2008 Lawson's Dry Hills Sauvignon Blanc (Awatere, New Zealand) $11
Passionfruit, lemongrass, floral notes with freshly cut herbs and red capsicum

2008 Cape Mentelle Sauvignon Blanc Semillon (Margaret River, Western Australia) $11
Lively lemon and lime zest, crunchy sugar snap pea and wheat grass.

2006 Hugel & Fils Pinot Blanc (Alsace, France) $11
Delicate, subtle and well built, it makes an excellent apéritif because, although nicely rounded, it is also refreshing. The perfect all-purpose dry white wine, it goes well white meats, fish and shellfish.

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2007 Serge Dagueneau & Filles Sauvignon Blanc (Pouilly Fume, France) $17
Most expressive and vibrant, this parades lots of ripe fruit flavours including gooseberry, grapefruit, lemon and pear together with an explosive terroir dimension, notably that classic flinty, smokey character so prevalent in classic Pouilly-Fume.

2008 Deakin Estate Sauvignon Blanc (Redcliffs, Victoria) $8
House white

By the Glass - Red Wine

2008 Pepe le Pinot Noir (Yarra Valley, Victoria) $9
Stunning wine from the talented Gary Damon Mills. Spicy, cherries and red fruits, a wine made for food.

2006 Tardieu-Laurent "Les Grands Augustins" Shiraz (Languedoc, France) $13
Quite coloured. Meaty round tannins. Fruit and power.

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2007 Rusden Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz (Barossa Valley, South Australia) $13
The 2007 is a true Barossa Cab/Shiraz with classic fruit, sweetness and savoury undertones

2005 Rudderless Mataro (McLaren Vale, Western Australia) $12
This straight Mataro is full of darkly brooding complexity, peppered plums and spices, very ripe, very earthy and nicely met by savoury oak. Super-ripe palate with powerful deep plum and liquorice Mataro flavour, full tannin sweep, soft and sweet, some tawny/leathery complexity through the finish. Hedonistic.

2006 Howard Park Cabernet Sauvignon (Margaret River, Western Australia) $17
Glace cherry, blackcurrant, dark chocolate, vanilla oak, tannins firm and dry

2005 Bleasdale "Frank Potts" Cabernet Malbec (Langhorne Creek, South Australia) $14
Powerful flavours of blackberries, dark cherries and violets integrating beautifully with the very subtle French oak characters and leading to a delightfully soft, round palate with pleasing sweet fruit richness.

2005 Deakin Estate Shiraz (Redcliffs, Victoria) $8
House red