Game of Rhones

Specialties

As promised, Game of Rhones is back for a second season, bigger and better for 2014! Get ready. Wine is coming… again.

Game of Rhones is a combative celebration of the classic grape varieties of the Rhone Valley in France. Think Shiraz, Grenache, Mourvedre, Carignan, Cinsault, Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne to name a mere few. This will be your chance to taste and choose for yourself a favorite variety, style and maybe even a region.

There will be over 50 producers and over 150 wines on tasting; the range of styles, characters and diversity will be an assault on the senses. There will be something there for everyone.

We’ve amassed a posse of brilliant producers from all corners of Australia as well some «across the narrow» Tasman Sea. You’ll get to try wines from ‘Beyond the Wall,’ the spiritual Rhone home.

Food will be available to purchase on the day, and by food, we mean full animals cooked on the spit and broken down for your carnal pleasure.

History

Established in 2013.

This is a Bottle Shop Concept Event.

Meet the Business Owner

Dan S.

Business Owner

Dan Sims is a well-​known wine commentator, educator and personality in Australia having worked in the field for twenty years. Sims is known for communicating with a broader audience about wine in an engaging and accessible manner, believing that collaboration and «edutainment» is the key to tapping into the general public.

As having worked as a Head Sommelier and Wine Buyer in some of Melbourne’s most renowned restaurants such as Taxi Dining Room, Fifteen and Punch Lane, it was a natural progression for him to sit on the education committee and develop the curriculum for prestigious scholarships such as the Galli Scholarship, the Sommeliers Australia Education Scholarship and judge for the Best Sommelier of Australia Competition to represent the Australian delegation for the Sommelier du Monde Competition.

Sims has contributed to such magazines as Gourmet Traveler Wine Magazine, Wine Companion Magazine and Taste Magazine Top 100 with Tony Love as well as his own blog which brought hi