We are inviting Ed Soon, a friend whom I haven’t met for ages to come down to our new wine bistro Tasting Room to do an interactive Bordeaux wine dinner entitled “The Perfect Pairing with Bordeaux Wines“. I hope to see some of you there for this dinner as we have got some interesting pairing […]

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if money was no object!!
it’s one of those days in which i wish i was in semi retirement enjoying my any claret of my choice whilst reading my favourite book….:)
anyway, this was the 1928 chateau haut brion which is one of my associates in london is trying to sell off:

It seems like it’s in pretty […]

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I came across this interesting bottle with a doggie’s paw all over it. I think my two dogs would be quite pleased with it.

I can’t tell you where this bottle came from though. If anyone has seen this bottle before, please drop me an email. I really want to know which vineyard is producing this.
 I […]

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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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when i stumbed upon this interesting gadget called the Clef du Vin, I could not really comprehend its use.
This is a tool shaped like a giant tea spoon.

In fact, the one we tested was the deluxe version which came in 3 different sizes, obviously for various situations, glass size etc.
When you place this in either […]

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I’ve been so darn busy for the past 2 weeks that I haven’t had time to blog at all…and that sucks! Anyway, I thought I’d blog about something which I organised and facilitated just 3 days ago as it’s still fresh in my mind! 
I’m not sure how many of you have heard about the 1976 […]

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