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Mudgee Wine with Food Challenge
Di Lusso is again hosting the Mudgee Wine with Food Challenge - an event where Mudgee-produced wines are judged in relation to their 'companionship' with a range of degustation dishes. The finals, culminating in the 'Challenge Dinner' will be held at di Lusso on Saturday 12th May… stay tuned for more details!
WEEKEND MENU - Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th February
For this week's Cucina Rustica we are pleased to offer
Pasta Verdure $15
Roasted vegetable & fetta pasta
Arosto con le pere $30
Roast pork with pears & crispy sage leaves,
Served with an Italian coleslaw
An Italian cheese plate with fresh fruit $20
Grana padana and gorgonzola dolce dop cheeses,
Served with fresh pears and biscuits
Sicilian orange cake $10
Served with cream
Dessert pizza special $15
Fresh pears, cinnamon, almonds and Mudgee honey
Please book on 6373 3125
Weekly competition at di Lusso!
How it works...Each Friday on this page we will be asking you to show us your expertise in wine and food pairing! We will tell you what is on our menu for the weekend, and you tell us which di Lusso wine pairs best, in your opinion, with those meals.
If you know the answer, . If you are the first response and our di Lusso tasting panel agree with your answer, you will win a delicious lunch with a glass of wine for two people at di Lusso Estate, next time you are here, which we hope will be soon!
This weekend's menu is shown below. For your entry tell us which wines, in your opinion, will go best with the Chili Squid Linguini and the Mudgee Lamb Backstrap dishes – and why? now with your answer to win!
Our 2011 Greco di Tufo has been released! $23 a bottle
This, the first release of this highly-pedigreed white wine with its origins in Campagna uses fruit from our own vineyard. (To our knowledge, we are one of only two Australian wineries offering a varietal release of Greco).
This is a highly textured, 'salty' wine…in some ways a bulked up Vermentino. A wine that I wouldn't recommend as an aperitif; but one which we've successfully matched with anchovy and caper pizza, mussels (using the wine as a component of the sauce, of course)…and most recently one which proved its worth brilliantly as a companion to what I call "South East Asian chicken" – where the bird is roasted in a whole heap of herbs and spices that such as lemongrass, five spice, coriander, galangal…that sort of thing.
A sort of a culinary Starship Enterprise wine – a wine that goes where other wines fear to!
Where else can you eat and enjoy a di Lusso wine with your meal?
Red wine lovers...Di Lusso is celebrating the release of our 2010 Il Palio on the weekend. 40% Sangiovese, 30% Barbera and 30% Cabernet - delicious!
In the vineyard... everything is growing madly! Most of the varieties are flowering and we are looking on track this year. We're doing a lot of canopy management work such as shoot thinning and wire lifting.
Our Wedding and Function Facility
Over the winter and early spring we've been very busy in the cellar door and gardens building a wedding ceremony/event section overlooking "Lago di Lusso", constructing a large hothouse and surrounds to propagate and ripen all our own herbs and vegetables (courtesy of a great range of heirloom Italian and French seeds we've sourced) and improving substantially the winery space to cater for up to 120 people. If you're thinking of celebrating an anniversary or even getting married, please remember that di Lusso Estate members can use reward points for a function, and benefit from the membership 10% discount!
