“I come from the home of brewing, in Burton upon Trent. As I grew up, we drank beer in our late teens. My parents, my grandparents, aunties and uncles; they all drank beer. That’s what we brewed in our hometown, so wine wasn’t a massive part of my life or my food culture. But coming to Margaret River was a way of expanding my knowledge and then I quickly fell in love with what wine has to offer.”
“With a wine dinner I’m not here to curate my best dishes, I’m here to create dishes that complement the wine. For me, wine dinners start with wine at the forefront of menu development, not as I would do normally, with an ingredient at the front. So, it’s wine orientated when it starts and then working out how I can build dishes around a wine that will complement, but the dishes will stand out on their own.”
