Excerpt from the Daily Telegraph on Sunday 10th May - article by Sharon Labi.

AT $89,510, a 1945 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti is Sydney’s most expensive bottle of wine.

And if you order the French burgundy at the city’s newest noshery, Rockpool Bar & Grill, they’ll even throw in a free feed.

The restaurant boasts Sydney’s top 10 most expensive wines and then some, drawn from the private collection of David Doyle, Neil Perry’s business partner in the new venture and the Melbourne restaurant of the same name.

Mr Doyle, a softly spoken American who has twice tasted the 1945 drop and described it as “beyond spectacular”, recommends it be ordered with the $39 free range chicken off the wood fired rotisserie with Tuscan bread salad.

Head sommelier Sophie Otton suggests the $45 wood fired grilled pigeon with roasted red peppers, grapes and radiccio salad.

Whatever the dish, they agree a wine of that complexity and subtlety needs plain food.

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