Thanks GT. We’re in illustrious company & very happy to have made the cut.
And who doesn’t love a good list these days, have you worked your way through it yet?
Check us out at gourmettraveller.com.au
Thanks GT. We’re in illustrious company & very happy to have made the cut.
And who doesn’t love a good list these days, have you worked your way through it yet?
Check us out at gourmettraveller.com.au
This list has popped up with some great city bars.
When you like great wine as much as we do, you should make every effort to tick each one off.
Make this your Wine Bucket List!
https://www.theurbanlist.com/sydney/a-list/sydneys-best-wine-bars
The Coravin is one of the greatest game changers I’ve seen in my life of serving wine. And let me tell you, that’s a few years.
In short, this nifty tool gives access to wines that can be poured by the glass and yet never opened!
Think Grange, Barolo and Grand Cru Burgundy to start.
I’ve played around with it for a while now and am confident that the wines remain perfect once ‘Coravined’.
Thanks to the coravin, we’ve added about 20 premium wines to our by the glass list. Available as a “taste” or glass. And we can do it, because the wines stay super fresh under their own cork indefinitely.
If you don’t believe me ask Jancis Robinson http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/coravin-the-pros-and-cons
So, we’re not too sure if we qualify as magnificent bastards…
But you need to check out D’Marge & their list of Sydney Wine Bars.
Who doesn’t love a good wine bar?! And we definitely like the company we keep in this little list. Cheers D’Marge.
https://www.dmarge.com/2017/03/sydney-wine-bars.html
Much thanks goes to Christina Pickard for including Fix in this grouping of 1o wine bars to try in Australia.
Loving the company we’re in with this list…
http://www.afar.com/magazine/the-top-10-wine-bars-in-australia
I’ve started writing a press release a dozen times at least. Yet every time I start I get lost in jargon, fluff and fancy. So instead, here’s a letter.
The WHAT part is easy. We’re building of a bar counter and high tables in the lower section at FIX. The WHY has been elusive. Funny how we know what we want to do but sometimes it takes a bit longer to really work out why.
So here I sit, late on a Friday (well, early on a Saturday really) with a cup of tea instead of a beer, typing instead of watching dubious TV.
But I’m waffling, it’s simple once realized. After all these years of owning and making FIX what it is, I really want it to be a wine bar.
Way back in 2006 there wasn’t an option to be a wine bar. I paid $15,000 for the privilege of a drink or dine license, so 30% of my capacity could choose to drink without intent of a meal. We struggled through with a solid lunch trade to the point of the small bar revolution which changed the way Sydney drinks forever. Like any change, it’s taken a while for it to become part of the Sydney psyche but it certainly has succeeded.
Which brings us to now. Here I am approaching FIX’s 7th birthday (and that is similar in age to 49 dog years) with an itch to change. I’ve been restauratuering all this time with a heavy wine focus but I’m keen to have more flexibility to do what I want to do. Which is simply talk more shit about fermented grape juice.
The nuts and bolts for our changes are;
At this point I doubt there’s much more to say.
Worth noting as a final (if irrelevant) point, most of this has been built by me. So rustic probably fails to adequately describe the expected workmanship.
Look forward to seeing you at the bar, or something.
Stu.