There are a few, very distinct and poignant, memories I have where my life took a different sensory direction...
Let me take you back over 30 years... to the last millennium... to the mid-1990s. The Manfredis were one of the most revered restaurant families in Sydney. As a very young person, I visited the legendary Restaurant Manfredi in Ultimo... and magically tasted a half bottle of one of Australia's greatest wines, Mount Mary's Pinot Noir. It was quite the taste bud revelation. Elegant, restrained, intense, redolent of red fruits and florals, incredibly harmonious acidity and tannin structure. To this day, it remains one of the great wine experiences for me. I remember arriving home and immediately calling Mount Mary vineyard (on a corded land line where I needed to dial the numbers which I'd looked up in a phone book... I didn't start really using the internet until a few years later!). I managed to speak with John Middleton, the founder and owner of the winery/vineyard, a famously cantankerous wine industry pioneer and medical doctor. The only reason he let me join the, then closed, cellar door mailing list, was because I was a medical student and within a few years of graduating!
I remember the coffee version of this vinous AHA moment as well. The first time i sipped an espresso made using a natural process high grade Ethiopian bean. Heaven! Sweet, unctuous, dark berry (some hint of blueberry muffin), cleansing brightness. It was delicious and addictive and so moreish.
If you would like to try our version of my coffee AHA moment then please click here on a link to our Ethiopian Single Origin Espresso. It's roasted using a Grade 1 natural process Ethiopian Guji Alaka and, I think, is a faithful representation of the magical experience I had in the mid-2000s.
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