11/06/2026
🍷 Meet the Winemaker 🍷
Last insight we had the pleasure of attending the first in a while meet the winemaker dinner with the McGinty group and Coterie with The Lane Vineyard
The five course menu was beautifully prepared and presented and every course was executed perfectly, with a particular highlight for me being the mushroom ravioli with beurre noisette and crispy sage, the filling was rich, perfectly balanced, of good consistency and texture and all sealed up in handmade pasta, and who doesn’t love the combo of beurre noisette and crispy sage?!
However, it’s safe to say every course was of the same high standard, and I could have eaten a whole plate of the fondant potatoes swimming in a bath of that luscious red wine jus! 🤤
I knew I was going to enjoy the food given Ross Boyd is now heading up the kitchen Coterie and I’m looking to forward to enjoying more of Ross’s food here.
Onto the wine, and again we were already big The Lane Vineyard fans and it was great to listen to Jared talk so passionately about his sublime wines. Lots of great examples of the restraint and balance that Jared spoke of being so important for him to show in these wines, and the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir were exactly that.
The wines of the night for me were the Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and at the price points, I found these wines to be of great value and brilliant bang for your buck.
It would be amiss of me not to mention, it felt odd attending such an event without the presence of the legend that is Gordon Davidson but it was lovely to catch up with Ailsa McCallum who is doing a grand job of looking after all our C&B wine needs.
Thanks to all involved in putting on such a fabulous dinner and evening, and here’s to many more! 🤞
