Emma Farrelly is the Director of Wine for the State Buildings, but this is perhaps where her skills, and superb contacts, are most vividly on display. Taking a leaf out of the enoteca book, a wall of wine – with some 500 options – is available to take away, or any bottle can be broached by one of Emma’s well-informed charges at what seems to be the country-wide enoteca standard of $15 corkage. Additionally, there are 25 wines offered by the glass, which are subject to frequent rotation.
If cocktails are your thing, there’s also a concise list of batched and bottled options. And if you’re taking your wine in, a classical listing of charcuterie and cheeses is available, with a handful of small plates and a larger option or two.
The wine offer is broad ranging, with a 60/40 domestic to international bias, but preferences producers who employ sustainable and ethical practices and organic and biodynamic farming methods. The ones that make great wine, that is. It’s also where Emma tucks away small parcels of scarce wines, the ones too limited to get a berth on the other wine lists under her purview. So, it’s also the place to hunt for those hard-to-find bottles.
Emma Ferguson and Daniel Morris are assembling a formidable group of venues. First, they reworked long-term player Balthazar, which was joined by No Mafia, a wine bar loosely styled on the local wine bars of Italy’s south, with food and vino to match, and more recently by their Northbridge tapas bar, Los Bravos. Los Bravos’…
Owners Sam and Tom Hart had lived in north-western Perth suburb Doubleview for several years before opening The Corner Dairy in 2021. “We’d been wanting a place like this to go to,” says Sam. “We refitted an old tax office into what we thought would be an ideal casual, laidback spot where people could hang out and try some interesting beers and wines, and eat some delicious food without having to leave the neighbourhood.”
Sam Winfield likes to keep busy. And he likes to follow his heart. At a point when his career as a surgeon (yes, it’s Dr Winfield, thank you very much) was blossoming, Winfield threw his energy into an empty Federation Art Nouveau shopfront at the top of William Street, with the aim of creating Perth’s…
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