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Starting the Annual Thread.

Family going from Adelaide to Sydney for various family shindigs before kids go back to Adelaide for work. We are staying on for a few more weeks to help paint mother-in-law's house. Xmas eve with wifey's family before Xmas day at my sister's and her tribe. Plenty of seafood, fowl, pig, salads etc and some nice quaffers and special bottles loaded into the new car for the great drive across the Hay Plains, my favourite road. There's a farm between Balranald and Hay (134km stretch of billiard table flat straight road) with huge gates with the name spelt out in 50cm letters - Hells Gate. Always stop to admire this. Yes, I am a bit strange.

Anyhoo, what are you doings this festive season?

Carl

Italian restaurant in Singapore booked. They do a buffet of cold cuts, cheese and oysters etc. Main course is aka carte. 98$ per person with free flow non alcohol, $128 for everything and prosecco...$198 for everything aforementioned but Dom perignon free flow.

Thinking of the last option. Think I could easily drink my way to solid value..

Dragzworthy wrote:Italian restaurant in Singapore booked. They do a buffet of cold cuts, cheese and oysters etc. Main course is aka carte. 98$ per person with free flow non alcohol, $128 for everything and prosecco...$198 for everything aforementioned but Dom perignon free flow.

Thinking of the last option. Think I could easily drink my way to solid value..

When I lived in Singapore we went to the Fullerton for Xmas lunch. Buffet with free flow Veuve.

I drank 2 bottles and washed it down with 3 lobsters and a dozen oysters. Didn't bother with any of the cheap stuff.
Best xmas lunch ever.

Go the Dom, go the Dom.

Croquet King wrote:

Dragzworthy wrote:Italian restaurant in Singapore booked. They do a buffet of cold cuts, cheese and oysters etc. Main course is aka carte. 98$ per person with free flow non alcohol, $128 for everything and prosecco...$198 for everything aforementioned but Dom perignon free flow.

Thinking of the last option. Think I could easily drink my way to solid value..

When I lived in Singapore we went to the Fullerton for Xmas lunch. Buffet with free flow Veuve.

I drank 2 bottles and washed it down with 3 lobsters and a dozen oysters. Didn't bother with any of the cheap stuff.
Best xmas lunch ever.

Go the Dom, go the Dom.

Haha yes the only real thing holding me back on the Dom is the missus!

Somehow on ten years in Singapore I've still managed to not yet attend a Fullerton buffet!

Nothing specific planned yet, but stocked up on the weekend with 8 mixed bottles of bubbly - 4 x NV champagne, 2 x prosecco, a seppelt Salinger and a bests sparkling Shiraz.

Plus 2 mixed cases of red for presents!

I plan on being in Australia for Christmas and will open something from among the several dozen wines that have been sitting in a back room in a house in Sydney. It'll be Chrismas lunch so probably a couple of whites in the form of a Mount Pleasant Elizabeth (either an '01 or '02) and an '04 Tahbilk Marsanne, and for the reds perhaps the '02 Seppelt's Sparkling Shiraz and a pinot noir. All subject to how accurate my list is and what remains there.

Mahmoud.

I may crack open a 1988 Calon Segur. Auction purchase so no idea how that will be.

Dragzworthy wrote:Italian restaurant in Singapore booked. They do a buffet of cold cuts, cheese and oysters etc. Main course is aka carte. 98$ per person with free flow non alcohol, $128 for everything and prosecco...$198 for everything aforementioned but Dom perignon free flow.

Thinking of the last option. Think I could easily drink my way to solid value..

You are mad if you don't go for the Dom.

A single glass in a top end Sydney restaurant can set you back $90+.

If the missus kicks up a stink, blame it on those no-good types from auswine.

Three weeks skiing in Vail. So living life on a tight budget before we go. One place I am looking to visit is Wallys Wine Shop in LA on the way to Denver. They appear to have a good stock of 2014 Passopisciaro Rampante R, S & P which I would like to stock up on for the trip back to Aus.

winetastic wrote:

Dragzworthy wrote:Italian restaurant in Singapore booked. They do a buffet of cold cuts, cheese and oysters etc. Main course is aka carte. 98$ per person with free flow non alcohol, $128 for everything and prosecco...$198 for everything aforementioned but Dom perignon free flow.

Thinking of the last option. Think I could easily drink my way to solid value..

You are mad if you don't go for the Dom.

A single glass in a top end Sydney restaurant can set you back $90+.

If the missus kicks up a stink, blame it on those no-good types from auswine.

I think there's been a few restaurants offering it around Sydney at $40 a glass recently. Not sure if that's permanent

rooman wrote:One place I am looking to visit is Wallys Wine Shop in LA on the way to Denver. They appear to have a good stock of 2014 Passopisciaro Rampante R, S & P which I would like to stock up on for the trip back to Aus.

I've heard about Wally's, that they used have quite a number of interesting older vintages. Not sure if that is still the case.

Mahmoud.

Rockford Black Shiraz. Same as every Christmas, celebration, Birthday etc......

Cheers
Ian

winetastic wrote:

Dragzworthy wrote:Italian restaurant in Singapore booked. They do a buffet of cold cuts, cheese and oysters etc. Main course is aka carte. 98$ per person with free flow non alcohol, $128 for everything and prosecco...$198 for everything aforementioned but Dom perignon free flow.

Thinking of the last option. Think I could easily drink my way to solid value..

You are mad if you don't go for the Dom.

A single glass in a top end Sydney restaurant can set you back $90+.

If the missus kicks up a stink, blame it on those no-good types from auswine.

Will you all be upset that blaming it on the Auswine crew holds little value with missus dragzworthy?