Valentine’s Day 2026
This Valentine’s Day, settle in for an afternoon or evening designed to be shared. Four thoughtfully paced courses explore the quiet conversation between Old World classics and New World standouts, each paired side by side to highlight contrast, harmony, and place.
Taste through from the finesse of Krug Champagne on arrival, to the lingering & indulgent Sauternes or Pedro Ximinez. The menu is a journey of texture, balance, and generosity - best enjoyed slowly… and together.
Saturday, February 14th
Lunch: 12pm-3:30pm, 9 wines, & 4 Courses paired by Kate Lamont, $350
Dinner: 6pm, 9 wines, & 4 Courses paired by Kate Lamont, $350
Don’t leave it until the last minute… this will book out, it always does!
The Menu & Wine List
On Arrival
NV Krug Grande Cuvee 172 Edition
The 172ème édition, based around the 2016 vintage, is a delicate, floral and saline Grande Cuvée at this early stage in its life. The palate it taut, tightly wound, gradually unfurling into toasted fruit bread, rye bread and roasted nuts, wrapped around an intricate and taut lemon core. It's exceptionally long, spicy, rounded and spherical in shape. Notes of sweet unsalted butter round out the finish, which has such length, elegance and balance. 58% of the wine is from the 2016 vintage, which saw a lot of rain in the spring and close to flowering, with 42% from reserve wines. The blend is made up of 146 separately vinified wines from 11 different years, and the oldest wine in the blend is from the 1998 vintage. (NE)
97 points, Decanter
Curry leaf cashews, crispy shallots
First Course
2020 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay
"The perfect balance of this wine is central to its place at the top of the Margaret River chardonnay tree. The vintage saw little disease pressure, and the purity of the wine is absolute, white peach to the fore, sustained by perfect acidity. Drink by 2040."
99 points and Top 100 Wines of 2023, James Halliday, The Weekend Australian
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2022 Chapelle de Blagny Meursault Les Ravelles 1er Cru
This wine has a lot going on, from lemon curd, smoked citrus peel, fleshy mandarin, gentle toastiness from the oak, vanilla pods, and hawthorn flowers. The texture goes hand in hand with the juiciness of that slurpable pulpy citrus and white nectarine. Finesse and balance are the keys to this wine. This is not the usual Meursault that slaps you on the face with its power; rather, it is more ethereal.
96 Points, Lisa Cardelli, WinePilot
Pancetta wrapped scallops, kaffir lime
Second Course
2023 Lowestoft La Maison Pinot Noir
There's a lot going on here – all of it good. Bright red cherry, red plum and raspberry pip tones with hints of cocoa powder, pomegranate, Chinese barbecue joint, amaro, souk-like spice, leaf litter, struck flint, XO sauce, shiitake broth and earth. Pure and spicy red fruits, fine, powdery tannins and a mineral-laden acidity that seems to pull the flavours forward on the palate, finishing long, savoury and true with everything plumb and tickety boo. Just lovely.
96 Points, Dave Brookes, The Wine Companion
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2022 Rapet Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er cru Aux Fourneaux
From the part of this climat classified in premier cru, where the vines are also older and the soils shallower, Rapet's 2022 Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Aux Fourneaux exhibits aromas of dark berries, cherries, orange zest and petals, followed by a medium to full-bodied, velvety palate that's suave and lively.
William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
Seared salmon, saffron tomatoes, basil
Third Course
2022 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Sauvignon
Really delivers as you might expect from this excellent concentrated and powerfully framed vintage in Margaret River. It is dominant Cabernet with smaller portions of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec. Typical of this wine since switching to biodynamics, it is bright and brilliant with a nervy tense energy to drive the palate. The succulent fruit is harness by fine chalky tannins and neatly played oak of which 55% was new. A wine of extraordinary elegance and poise with a life of many decades. Drink: 2023-2068."
98 Points, Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot
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2022 Domaine Belle Hermitage Syrah
Ripe black fruits, scorched earth, chocolate, and peppered meat-like nuances all emerge from the 2022 Hermitage, a concentrated 2022 that shows the ripe, sunny side to the vintage in its aromatics yet also the more focused, structured style on the palate.
95 points, Jeb Dunnuck, jebdunnuck.com
Twice cooked lamb shoulder, melted beetroot, buttermilk dressing
To Finish…
2013 Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes
This is phenomenal with superb depth and texture. Full-bodied, very sweet, yet the bright acidity balances the wine out. Creamy mouthfeel with phenolic undertones. Great finish. This wine has a great future.
97 points, James Suckling, jamesusckling.com
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Lustau V.O.R.S 30 Year Old Pedro Ximenez
There’s something almost disarming about the relatively pale hue of this Oloroso, so accustomed are we to associating intensity with depth of colour. Don’t be misled. A sniff or two should set you on the right course: the great wealth of aroma that lifts from the glass gives you a sudden impression of gravity and depth, lurking unseen. What you’ll find on the palate magnifies that impression further: this is a plunging, driving wine of almost shocking intensity, ricocheting around the mouth and evoking a full library of sensual allusions, from leather and apothecary elixirs to apricot skins and beeswax polish.
98 points & Best in Show - Decanter World Wine Awards 2020