GOURMET TRAVELLER 13PHOTOGRAPHY CHRIS JANSEN (BAKEDOWN CAKERY) & JENNIFER SOO (BRIDGET RAFFAL).
Edited by LEE TRAN LAMDECEMBER / JANUARY
Mix it up
A sommelier on
wine-list equality,
Brisbane’s Greca
opens, and Moon
Dog’s new brews.LAZY DAYS
Illustrator Marc Martin has created
works for Kitsune Café in Paris
and Hoppy Beer in Japan. The
Melbourne artist’s latest series of
prints was inspired by a trip to
Taiwan, where he spent time
visiting the country’s popular food
markets. “We went to the outdoor
market in the city of Tainan during
the afternoon, so it was very quiet,”
he says. Lazy Afternoon (right)
captures that unusually calm
moment. $80, marcmartin.comEntering the
Sydney Royal
Chocolate
Competition at
the last minute
paid of for
Bakedown
Cakery’s Jen Lo.
Her Genmaicha
Oreo Strawberry
block picked up a
silver medal, and
her Wasabi block
(from a Japanese
condiment range
that includes
Pickled Ginger
and Soy Sauce)
scored bronze.
bakedown
cakery.comSommelier Bridget
Raal of Sixpenny.When Bridget Raffal became Sixpenny’s sommelier
in late 2017, she noticed something odd on the wine
list: a lack of women. She decided to make a change.
Female winemakers will, one day, make up half the
slate. “But without doubling the list, which is not
feasible at a place like Sixpenny, a 35-seat restaurant,
you’ve got to be reasonable and take it slow,” she says.
Her solution is to ramp up the number of women on
the matching and by-the-glass options: the pours that
diners hear about most. At a recent guest lunch with
Belon’s Daniel Calvert, Raffal created wine pairings
that featured all-female producers, including glasses
of Claire Naudin’s “Le Clou 34” aligoté and Veronica
Ortega’s “Quite” Mencía. Many distributors have
suggested winemakers worth including on the
Sixpenny list, while others have simply offered: “oh,
I think this guy has a... wife.” It doesn’t phase her.
“I don’t have to get to 50 per cent tomorrow, but if
I’m making a new addition, it has to be a woman.”