Bannockburn

Dinner last night: Went to a new place on King St, Rubyos, which was a relatively stylish restaurant with a hot and cold modern Australian grazing menu.

We did have some nice dishes, which included pate, scallops, mussels, asparagus, squid and some very nice goats cheese and mushroom bruschetta.

Again had a bottle of 2002 Bourillon-Dorleans Vouvray Sec which is a great soft and floral wine, and then to a bottle of 2000 Bannockburn Chardonnay. It seemed that this wine was in a mid to advanced state of ageing, as it was sienna brown in colour, and very, very rich on the palate. We had to hold off on it as it was really moving toward a dessert wine and was inappropriate with savoury dishes, but fantastic none the less.

Rich deep oak, with caramel, butterscotch and tobacco flavours. Went nicely with some brie, fruit and some caramel pannacotta. I can still taste it today. Mmm.