21. Nightingale Wines Merlot

Darlinghurst has some amazing restaurants and most can be found along a street called Victoria Rd. There is also a great trend towards BYOB (that’s “bring your own booze” for the tee-totallers out there). Needless to say, there are several booming wine merchants on that street thriving on the BYOB culture.

A good idea is to look at the menu outside your restaurant of choice and then go to the wine shop and pick a wine to go with whatever you fancied on the menu. We ate at fabulous but slow restaurant called Café Fellini’s and picked up a bottle of the above wine to go with our rich risotto and powerful king prawn linguini (both scoffed down in minutes).

What a choice. Rich and fruity so much body it tasted like undiluted Ribena. Very little in the way of tannins and far too easy to drink. The food was good but this wine was amazing.