CIAO TUTTI! CELLAR DOOR OPEN MONDAY 20TH JUNE 10.30AM -3PM for tastings and sales of our delicious QUEENSLAND MADE preservative-free wines and liqueurs.  We’re going up to the shortest day, tomorrow the 21st June in fact.  We hope you are taking in the full moon last week, the glorious sunrises and stunning sunsets.

 Buona cucina e buon appetito tutti!

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Pride, passion, respect for tradition.

CD 4126 1311 W 4126 3470 0408 875 305   buon appetito e buona cucina tutti!

CIAO TUTTI! CELLAR DOOR OPEN SUNDAY 19TH JUNE 10AM -4PM for tastings and sales of our delicious QUEENSLAND MADE preservative-free wines and liqueurs.

Here on the Hill we are very broadranging and small c ‘catholic’ in our food likes and we love a good curry. In fact we enjoy one several times a week. The Little Cellar Rat always uses red wine and often the reaction is ‘Quel horreur!!!” Wine in a curry! Hmm… well, if you love a VINDALOO, you might not know that it is in fact not an Indian word but came from the Portuguese term ‘Carne de vinha d’alhos’ meaning ‘meat in garlic wine marinade.’ It means marination of meat especially pork with garlic and wine.

It was introduced into India (especially in Goa and Konkan regions) by the Portuguese. The Portuguese sailors preserved raw ingredients, packed in wooden barrels of alternate layers of pork and garlic, and soaked in red wine.

Later this marination was Indianized by the local Goan cooks. They substituted red wine with palm vinegar and added red chillies and other spices in addition to the marination. Now Vindaloo includes vinegar/lime juice+red chillies soaked and made into a paste.

Happy Sunday reading….. Buona cucina e buon appetito tutti!

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Pride, passion, respect for tradition.

CD 4126 1311 W 4126 3470 0408 875 305   buon appetito e buona cucina tutti!

CIAO TUTTI! CELLAR DOOR OPEN SATURDAY 18TH JUNE 10AM -4PM for tastings and sales of our delicious QUEENSLAND MADE preservative-free wines and liqueurs.

CD 4126 1311 W 4126 3470 0408 875 305   buon appetito e buona cucina tutti!

CIAO TUTTI! CELLAR DOOR OPEN THURSDAY 16TH JUNE 12.30PM -4PM for tastings and sales of our delicious QUEENSLAND MADE preservative-free wines and liqueurs.

A batch of pasta sauce is brilliant to have in the fridge.  It can be used as a base for  a smashing pizza, spooned over polpetti / meatballs and reheated with a blessing of parmigiana, likewise for chicken and makes the quickest side dish combined with any pasta shape.  buon appetito, buona cucina tutti!

CD 4126 1311 W 4126 3470 0408 875 305   buon appetito e buona cucina tutti!

CIAO TUTTI! CELLAR DOOR OPEN WEDNESDAY 15TH JUNE 10AM -4PM for tastings and sales of our delicious QUEENSLAND MADE preservative-free wines and liqueurs. Just the weather for anything slow-cooked especially if it has a bone…..lamb neck chops are an underrated cut of meat.  Remove most of the fat first then scoop off before serving and you have an amazingly tasty dish full of flavour and nutrition.  enjoy with a dry red such as our ‘3 MEN AND THE MOON’ 2017  CAB/SHIRAZ BLEND.

CD 4126 1311 W 4126 3470 0408 875 305   buon appetito e buona cucina tutti!

CIAO TUTTI! CELLAR DOOR OPEN TUESDAY 14TH JUNE 10AM -4PM for tastings and sales of our delicious QUEENSLAND MADE preservative-free wines and liqueurs.

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THE CANE HARVEST – locally known as THE CRUSHING- starts today.  

Please take care on the roads as our busy cane trains pulled by bright yellow locos are on the loose and working hard to bring in the bounty of  this magnificent agricultural area.

buon appetito e buona cucina tutti!

CIAO TUTTI! CELLAR DOOR OPEN SATURDAY 11TH JUNE 10AM -4PM for tastings and sales of our delicious QUEENSLAND MADE preservative-free wines and liqueurs.

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Memories of winter mornings for the Little Cellar Rat…. Rolled oats bubbling away on top of the wood stove, jaffles filled with precious left-over mince and an egg toasting in the firebox. Simple, sustaining, filling. She was yet to discover ‘cucina siciliana’!

buon appetito e buona cucina tutti!

buona giornata tutti!

CIAO TUTTI!  

CELLAR DOOR OPEN FRIDAY 10TH JUNE  11.30AM -4PM  for tastings and sales of our delicious preservative-free wines and liqueurs.  

buona giornata tutti!

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CIAO TUTTI!  Winter’s icy fingers and cold breath remind us that there is a cycle to the seasons.  A splendid excuse to turn on the oven and get a PANETTONE BAKED CUSTARD made!  Farm fresh eggs (a friend) and homegrown limes (the Little cellar Rat’s) make the difference.  buona cucina!

CELLAR DOOR OPEN THURSDAY 9TH JUNE  10AM -4PM  for tastings and sales of our delicious preservative-free wines and liqueurs.  

buona giornata tutti!

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CIAO TUTTI!

CELLAR DOOR OPEN WEDNESDAY 8TH JUNE  10AM -4PM  for tastings and sales of our delicious preservative-free wines and liqueurs.  

It’s another glorious day here on the Hill. We love living where we do and are grateful for the beauty of nature that surrounds us.

buona giornata tutti!

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