This is exciting news - Bloodwood at Sydney Opera House!

Sydney’s Vivid 2025 theme is DREAMS.

Winemakers who dared to dream. Bloodwood will join the iconic Tim Kirk of Clonakilla, Murrumbateman, known for his Riesling and Shiraz Viognier and the Hunter Dynasty of Tyrrells, famous for their Shiraz and Vat 1 Semillon, for the VIVID Dinner. We pioneered the cool climate region of Orange NSW.

WHAT: DINNER Dance of Dreams

WHERE: SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE (Yallamundi Rooms by the harbour)

WHEN: FRIDAY 13th June and SATURDAY 14th June 2025. 6.30pm start

CHEF: DANIELLE ALVAREZ (wonderful chef ex Fred’s Restaurant- 2 hats)

3 WINERIES: CLONAKILLA TYRRELLS BLOODWOOD

NEW OLD NOW: Dance Company interpreting DANCE OF DREAMS

To book a seat, follow the link and we will see you there:

https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/vivid-live/dance-dreams-danielle-alvarez

If you want to sit near the Bloodwood table, use this link.

During the evening there will be wine, food, beautiful music and dance with a backdrop of the Opera House and Sydney Harbour. You will have the opportunity to sample wines from the three wineries and enjoy food matches from Chef Danielle Alvarez. Each winery will speak about their particular origin story.

The Bloodwood Dance of Dreams six pack

If you are unable to join us on either night, why not toast us in spirit by dreaming you are with us and pour yourself a glass of our Chirac, Pinot Noir or Maurice. They are so special to us that we don’t normally taste them at our Bloodwood cellar door. However, for newsletter subscribers, I am thrilled to offer you the Dance of Dreams half dozen and some suggested morsels to go with each wine.

• 2 bottles of 2010 Bloodwood Chirac - normally $164

• 2 bottles 2019 Bloodwood Pinot Noir - normally $94

• 2 bottles 2019 Bloodwood Maurice - normally $136

• Freight to Sydney - normally $24

Normal price $418

Dance of Dreams for you - $375

News from the vines

Vintage is done, the grapes are crushed and resting now through a winter that will produce some great releases in the years to come. It was a good growing season if a little dry at the end, but this will bring ripeness and character to both our reds and white varieties.

For now, we can take in the change of season and perhaps our turn for a little rain and watch as vines are shedding their shimmering burnished leaves and exposing their skeletons after the wind and the late cold seasonal break of a week ago. I love this time of the year and my thoughts turn to dinners with friends and the food that will showcase this year’s offerings.

A Morsel To Muse Over

My word for the month is “morsel”. It’s a bite, a nibble, a soupcon and often provides that gentle gastronomic transition from one course to another; from one wine to another character or style.

Mini cheese course bridging main and desert

You have finished main but are still lingering on the red. Too full for a trio of cheeses but maybe a morsel or two to delay launching into dessert. So, if you are enjoying our Pinot or Maurice in this situation, here's a cheese canape you can have prepared that either will go with.

2010 Bloodwood Chirac

• 60% Chardonnay & 40% Pinot Noir, a sparkling performer-more French than the French

• Would you believe we will be returning to the same place for the VIVID evening where Stephen and I launched our very first thrilling Chirac in 1996.

• Morsel

  I love it icy cold with a hot crisp pastry or French Fries. Even Parmesan biscuits work well.

2019 Bloodwood Pinot Noir

• This Pinot has already graced the stage at the Opera House passionately making its mark at Bennelong Restaurant. It is from a warm dry year and is darkly brooding and intense.

• Morsel

  Pork, duck, steak or lamb fillets or a sliver of divine Comte

2019 Bloodwood Maurice

• (Our master blend based on Cabernet Sauvignon, with a dash of Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Malbec)

  Maurice has a past with the Opera House. They were much loved at Bennelong for the entirety of Guillaume’s residency.

  A complex Cabernet family blend from a warm dry year. An outstanding wine with perfectly ripened fruit and gorgeous finesse on the palate. Ripe dark fruit flavours with an elegant finish, the best characteristics of Australian fruitiness and French restraint.

• Morsel

  A sliver of Comte also is complete with Maurice. Beaufort is even better.

Bloodwood’s origin story

We all have a story and you can see ours and the full range of our wines and my recipe recommendations on the Bloodwood web site, or join us for a cellar door tasting next time you are in Orange.

Bookings essential 02 63625631

Thanks to you our customers for keeping our dreams alive for 42 years.

• Stephen and Rhonda Doyle