Your guide to Australian craft spirits & Melbourne's cocktail culture
Here’s a round up of new Melbourne drinking establishments to hunt out soon (plus some new drinkables). — Gin-makers Four Pillars have finally opened up the doors to their Healesville distillery. You can pick up a bottle of their exclusive Spiced Negroni Gin while you’re there. Healesville — Oooh there’s […]
Turning Good Food Month into Good Drink Month with our top ten picks of the food fest… 1. Sweetfest: Get ready for a sippable sugar high among the desserts at this Good Food month weekender via grown-up spiders, Redbank sparkling wine cocktails and drink demonstrations by arguably Melbourne’s best bar […]
Presenting DrinkMelbourne’s top 10 events in Melbourne this month. — 1. Yaaas. On a swish yacht is the way to contend with Melbourne Cup Day. Lounge in the Hecker Guthrie designed interior of the luxury M.V. Pearl as Bright Young Things serves up their amazing bites, acoustic music and plenty […]
Excuse me waiter, there’s a frozen riverstone in my drink?! For the first time ever the cocktail lists at the Sydney and Melbourne incarnations of adventurous cocktail bar Eau De Vie are aligned after a rare overhaul of the menu. Never fear: the famed Espresso Zabione remains. Drinks were honed […]
Shhh (or should that be Schhh?). Melbourne’s newest bar has a secret CBD location. Bar Schweppes is a cocktail only pop-up bar, this time around showcasing a taste of London’s bar scene. Rockstar caterers Tommy Collins are dishing out British fare and drinks inspired by UK trends while surrounded by Union […]
The Rum Diary has been crafting their own spiced rum from day one. Customers’ requests to take some home soon lead to a doubling, then quadrupling in production. For this, the bar’s owner Hamish Goonetilleke would like to thank an unlikely source; “Sailor Jerry’s done an awesome job for us […]
I fell in love last week. She was a redhead. We first met at Waterslide bar. Our matchmaker was venue manager Tim Wastell. They say Rockford‘s 2015 Alicante Bouchet from the Barossa Valley tastes of cherries, but to my (rather uneducated) palette it’s more like old-fashioned strawberries and cream lollies from the […]
Here’s my pick of the new Melbourne drinking establishments to hunt out soon & some new drinkables. — Alby Tomassi (Feast of Merit) and chef Paul Wilson’s Lady Carolina isn’t just about Latin American eats. There’s a focus on pisco (if you’re lucky served in a rather cool cocoa pod) […]
What’s your most evocative Summer memory? Is it frolicking on the beach with your best friend, swinging in a hammock with your loved one, running through sprinklers with your siblings? Perhaps you recall catching that wave, slurping an epic scoop of melting ice-cream or making an art work out of the neon […]
What does a $4,699 bottle of whisky taste like? Collectors and devotees now have a limited chance to find out as Chivas Regal unleashes just 30 of 2015’s limited release of 1500 bottles of its new luxury blend – ‘The Icon‘ – on Australian shores. The Icon is the whisky […]