Posts Tagged ‘Gourmet dining’

What’s a Qualia?

27
Oct
1

The Whitsunday Islands in Queensland have a new star. Qualia, according to its cashed-up owners, the Oatley family (yes, they sold Rosemount Wines to Southcorp with perfect timing, wine sales have dropped out the bottom of the proverbial spit bucket since then) comes from the Latin, ‘quality of conscious experience’, implying that Qualia’s discerning guests […]

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Epicurean Best in Show

22
Oct
1

Dunkeld seems an unlikely town to choose for setting up one of the country’s best restaurants but as the Royal Mail Hotel’s first manager/sommelier Lok Thornton claimed in 2008, “We plan to be not only one of the ten best restaurants in Australia but in the world within a few years.” No doubt this forecast […]

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Winding a Way in the Waipara

16
Oct
1

There’s more depth to the Kiwi wine scene than bucket loads of Sauvignon Blanc. The Marlborough region is dumping wine in huge quantities on the global market. Credit given where credit is due; some of the gooseberry infused S.B. from the northern parts of the South Island is eminently quaffable.

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