Tasted: 2002 Noon Reserve Cabernet
When deciding on a food match for this wine, we turned to one of our reliable favourites: Ottolenghi’s Baked Rice with Confit Tomatoes and Garlic (page 174 of his ‘Simple’ cookbook). The rice is baked with cinnamon quills for a fragrant lift and delivers a natural sweetness from the slow-cooked tomatoes and garlic. Soft and […]
A good read
A great new guide book by Jane Lopes & Jonathan Ross – How to Drink Australian. Harper Noon. Now I’m not just saying this because dad is included in the book! I took this book with me to Western Australia when I went to work the harvest, to give me some recommendations of wineries to […]
Tasted: Colin 2015 Chemin des Roses Champagne – it’s raining!
Friday nights are pizza nights at our place, and tonight we’ve opted for takeaway from Pizzateca. To mark the occasion—and to celebrate the rain—we opened a bottle of Champagne. We’ve recorded 8mm in the gauge today, the most rain we’ve had since last November. After months of looking out at a brown landscape and parched […]
Tasted: 1999 Noon Reserve Shiraz with Pizzateca Arancini
We are overdue in revisiting some of the older vintages in our cellar, so tonight we decided to dig out a Reserve Shiraz. We wanted something earthy and creamy to complement the more delicate texture of this mature wine, so we paired it with black truffle and mushroom arancini in a cream sauce from our […]
Highlights of our NZ holiday
(Photo above – a view to the lake, Queenstown.) Highlights of our 2025 family trip to New Zealand by Indi Noon. As Harper and I have now entered what I call “Chapter 2” of our lives, “Chapter 1” being our schooling years, mustering all four family members under one roof has become a little bit […]
Tasted: 2023 Chateau de Maligny Petit Chablis
We mail ordered a cheese hamper from The Smelly Cheese shop in Adelaide and it included a bottle of this wine, along with Époisses cheese, black wafers & muscatels. It was a lovely wine and frankly, a nice surprise! Quite suave in texture for a Chablis, with the freshness of an early morning walk on […]
Tasted: 1997 Noon Reserve Cabernet with Chicken Marbella
Chicken Marbella (page 229 in Ottolenghi’s ‘Simple’ cookbook) is excellent if you’re looking for a dish to have with an older wine. The baked sweet/salty combination of dates, molasses, olives and capers is rich and gentle and pairs very well with soft, mature reds. Prepared ahead and baked in one dish, it’s so easy to […]
A harvest in Alsace, by Indi Noon
Photo: (Harvest festival in the village of Barr 2024) August 2024, Location: Brisbane Airport. Destination: Paris. I remember arriving at Brisbane International Terminal four hours early that morning. The check-in gates weren’t even open so I perched myself on a bench outside the departing gate for a while and recall being riddled with excitement, uncertainty, […]
Our favourite way to roast chicken
Brined Chicken Thank you to the Weisbrodt family for sharing this recipe. 6% Brine (300g of salt in 5L water) 1.5 to 2kg Chicken 1 lemon 1 bunch of thyme 60g unsalted butter & extra for rubbing into the skin 30mL dry white wine or rosé Method Remove trussing from chicken and place in a clean container/pot. […]
Tasted: 2021 K1 Single Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay
The 2021 K1 Reserve Chardonnay is one of the best chardonnays we have tasted in the last 12 months. It’s beautifully balanced and full of flavour. Complex with toasty oak but not too much, it’s delicious and leaves you wanting more. Premium price but worth the money. Purchased in April 2025 from the K1 cellar […]