MOLLYDOOKER
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Reservations for our FIRST Winemaker's Dinner of 2023 are NOW OPEN!
Join us Thursday, March 2nd for an exclusive coursed winemaker’s dinner featuring boutique Australian wines from MollyDooker. To kick off our 2023 winemaker’s dinner series, we are excited to feature these Australian wines paired with innovating dishes presented by Chef Justin Hayes. To highlight the evening, we will also be joined by MollyDooker’s global sales rep and son of the owner, Luke Marquise.
Thursday, March 2, 2022
$125 Per Guest ++
**additional supplemental wine pairing featuring MollyDooker’s “Velvet Glove” and chef selected cheeses
6:00pm Reception | 6:30pm Dinner
BACKGROUND ON MOLLYDOOKER:
Mollydooker Wines is based in the McLaren Vale wine region in South Australia, and was founded by Sarah and Sparky Marquis in 2006. With a story that catches the hearts of winelovers around the world, global wine aficionado, Robert Parker, wrote about their wines as ‘The greatest red wine values in existence… Run, don’t walk and secure as much as you can of these wines!’
FUN. QUIRKY. PLAYFUL. MEMORABLE. What stands out about these wines, especially across the reds, is the famous “Mollydooker Shake.” This unusual shaking process allows the nitrogen used during their winemaking process to release. Mollydooker uses this nitrogen process to protect the wine and minimize sulphites. Directly from Mollydooker, “…if you think of flavour like a big round ball, nitrogen flattens that ball. So by doing the shake, the nitrogen is released and the flavor ball pops back out to its full size.”
CELLAR NOTES FOR MOLLY DOOKER’S VELVET GLOVE
The wine that wraps your entire palate in a ‘Velvet Glove’ of amazing fruit flavours that seem to last forever.
TASTING NOTES: Dense, dark and brooding in the glass, the 2020 Velvet Glove Shiraz is complex and sumptuous. Black plum, blueberries and roasted coffee intermingle with anise in its lifted fragrance. A supremely smooth molten chocolate mouthfeel accentuates the precise balance of infinitely complex structure, expressing deep flavours of berries, whilst liquorice and allspice linger on the palate. 2020 has produced a Velvet Glove of incredible eminence and elegance that is truly the pinnacle of Mollydooker Wines.
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- Wine label as art -
"The inspiration for the series came from old advertising illustrations and cartoon characters going as far back as the 1920s," explained Roberts. "We also drew upon old books, their covers and inside page patterns. We loved creating the hand-drawn text, including the Mollydooker logos. The idea was to keep everything hand-done, scratched up and fun."
Fun is the operative word for the Mollydooker portfolio. The illustrated labels are by no means "fine art" in the traditional sense of the term, but the traditional sense has been obsolete for decades: Arguably the most important artistic work of Koons—he of the lofty Mouton label and "the most successful American artist since Warhol," as shouted by a recent New York magazine cover—is a shining supersized balloon animal. Mollydooker's Lefty illustrations pick up the mantle of comics and cartoons like Popeye, Blondie and Steamboat Willie, adopting the same knowing wink of a Tex Avery or Chuck Jones character. The Lefty labels may not be think pieces, but they are clever.
—Robert Taylor, Wine Spectator
***Stay tuned for event photos and curated menu by Chef Justin Hayes!
MOLLYDOOKER Winemaker’s Dinner Menu
CHEF JUSTIN HAYES
