This was one of our ad hoc trips which took us to the suburb of Manjalara - somewhere near Kepong where we ate at a stall which specialises in Dim Sum, the chinese style dumplings. True to our style, we ate and drank to our heart’s delight and kept sufficiently sober to report our findings […]

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We brought Bill Sneddon, winemaker of Allandale Winery, Hunter Valley, Australia to try a place called De Foodland Seafood which has some 30+ types of crab dish styles. It was obvious that only Allandale wines were used for this pairing, and this is what we found out: 

Creamy butter crab goes with creamy Chardonnay
Young potato leaves […]

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My team of crazy wine lovers decided to go try King Crab at Kelana Jaya. We tried to stick to a predominantly seafood theme but then again, some pork came out…hehe….
Here is what we ordered:

And these were the candidates of wines that we thought would suit the above dishes:

Due to the complexities of the permutations […]

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I love sweet wines and a great sweet wine can really enhance and finish off one’s dinner with a great impression on your palate. However, it’s a very ignored segment of the market so we decided to try 4 great sweet wines and pair it with food which we thought would go well with it. […]

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One of my team mates Lindsay had been sent a can of Haggis from her family in Scotland, and because i had just come back from Florence then, I brought my team back some Italian goodies to try. We had haggis, parma ham, chianti wine jelly, 25 year old modena balsamic vinegar, san leo extra virgin olive […]

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thanks again for the pics Nicole….
I was told that aged balsamic & vanilla ice cream went well so what the heck, the only way to find out is to try it.
Of course, the best balsamic vinegars come from Modena - everyone knows that right? This one was brought back during my recent trip to […]

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wine cellar had it’s friday tasting today and we tasted 2 wines from the tim adams range - the riesling and the shiraz. but what was interesting was the after-tasting tasting….gerald brought us some cupcake chic cupcakes…from what i recall, flavours were named “fatal attraction - a chocolate based cupcake”, “naughty and nice - chocolate […]

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when fritz hasselbach of gunderloch was down in kl, we went to a thai restaurant and successfully matched a tom yam soup & his riesling spatlese…the acidity in the riesling and that sweetness just complements the spicy acidity of the soup so well! and for people who complain that the riesling spatlese is too sweet, […]

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