31 not out

On 4 May 2005 I celebrated my 31st birthday. However, I had to wait until 7 May - a Saturday! - to have a celebratory drink. I was joined by my friends Lucy Rundle, Linden Wilkie and his girlfriend Aiko. It was a long night…
We began with Krug rosè - easily the finest rosè Champagne [...]

The Drinks Interval

The highly regarded Brokenwood winery in the Lower Hunter Valley wine region north of Sydney sells a ‘Cricket Pitch’ wine, so-called because the vineyard adjacent to the winery was once the site of a cricket ground. It also owns a ‘Graveyard’ vineyard, presumably named in honour of recent England tours of Australia. Geoff Merrill’s winery [...]