Paranormal Activity

Thy eyes do not deceive - Paranormal hath descended on the digital pages of Vogue. Find our wine shop-bar among friends on Vogue's list of the restaurants every foodie needs to visit in Canberra. Weekend agenda-ing established.

Thursday 21 July forecast says: mid-week, mid-winter dinner with Bryan Martin, the storied winemaker behind Ravensworth. Join us for four courses and matching wines, including some very special jewels, mined from the cellar. Tickets are $120 per person - yes, the ship's first ever ticketed event - with two sittings at 6pm and 8.30pm. Limited, limited, limited.

There’s another Paranormal-skewed event on the horizon for you. On Thursday May 26, Broadsheet is offering “a portal to New Zealand”, otherwise known as an immersive party of New Zealand’s culinary, cultural and artistic offering, at Surry Hills’ Paramount House Hotel. There’ll be a Māori welcome, Max is on the wine, Amber Doig is on the snacks, along with Bar Celeste, there will be live art by Estere and music from Natalie Ex. Thirty double passes for mere mortals to win are up for the winning. Godspeed.

A drop as fun as the weather? The weather may be the stuff of comedy but Mersel is not. The north Lebanon producer is making two (outer)stellar fizzy drinks, with indigenous vines and a lotta pizzazz. Paranormal’s secured both the Leb (Pet) Nat Gold and Let (Pet) Nat Ruby, both 2020. Gold’s a fruity fruit salad on the nose and Aero-style with its bubbles. Its Ruby counterpart? Bubblegummy, berry-y, Saturday’s only salve. 

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Come one, come all, comme ci, comme ça. Tomorrow, the day barrelling towards us, May 20, we’re hosting dear acquaintances Jean Bouteille and Chateau Comme Ci Comme Ça’s Aaron Fenwick for a tasty tasting. As part of their Marathon Fruité, Jean and Aaron are traversing the terra firma to showcase the latest, greatest and tastiest of autumn 2021. Join us at Paranormal for the Canberra stop on their tour, from 1pm till 4pm tomorrow to insert yourself into the activity.

Brutal Brutal!! A special wine waiting to dock at your place. Christian Tschida’s Brutal!! Pinot Noir offers some of the best out of Burgenland, Austria. Fact: the contents of this bottle is a wine crushed by feet. Its cult status is gained from its cola-y, pine-y notes and it’s not an enemy of rabbit risotto or an evening plonked by an open flame. If we were you, we’d lay up horizontal with Don’t Look Up on the television set. 

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