Upside Down

We admire the creativity of the screen writer and film director Juan Diego Solanas, also a former actor, cinematographer, editor and sound engineer. That’s quite a lot of various experience for just one person with the innovative ideas in writing a nearly impossible love story between two human who live upside down from each other. This sci-fi romance certainly appeals to wider audience curiosity to find out how the contact were made in between two worlds of different planet. Juan Diego Solanas manage to show  the corporate capitalism of the future which had led to the resources, ideas, patents and labor extracted by top from bottom through the power of the Transworld company. Discrimination are a certainty, the rich will get richer and the poor will get more suffers. The extraordinary CG is the best selling point for the movie despite the development of the story in the second half of the movie gradually fading off. If you opt for a night out with entertainment, <Upside Down> may not be a bad idea to fill your evening.

 



TED

 This is certainly a "kidult' movie for a man who doesn't really "want" to grow up especially yo find you pal and grew up together for 27 years. <TED> is a kind of those magical movies happen during Christmas season to make your dream come true. This talking teddy bear <TED> with the voice over and also the renown screenplay writer, film director by Seth Mac Farlane notoriously being the best pal for John (Mark Wahlberg). Lots of great sensual lines with good laugh from Mac Farlane's sense of humor. Many good old casts for cameo appearance portraying themselves including Sam J. Jones, Norah Jones, Tom Skerritt and also Patrick Stewart doing the narration. That shows Mac Farlane's trusted friendship with them being so influential for them to appear significantly in the film. <TED> certainly not a movie made for kid but don't get us wrong if you insist to bring yours to watch this film, their childhood dreams towards the bear may be destroyed. 

 



MAGIC MIKE

If you opt for flesh, you got it!! Girls get scream out loud seeing them and men adore them and wishes to be like them. <Magic Mike> poster may make you think of <The Full Monty> but this time you will find real men with real flesh. Set in the world of male strippers and inspired by Channing Tatum's real life, Film director Steven Soderberg's sudden change from his dramatic thriller to a drama comedy seems missing some intense plots. It ain't a musical but enough singing and dancing on stage with amusement. The film follows Mike (Tatum) as he takes a young dancer called The Kid (Pettyfer) under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money. It may not be as dirty as you think but these men have the brain to make your money from their sweat and tears by putting up the show. Indeed the work all day and work it all night. The movie kicked start with some real good human flesh but the second half of the movie seems dying down with repetition, you may wonder when and how it will be going to end by testing your own patient. 

 



LOOPER

Time travel genre always has its fan nand created a lot of curiosity for the poeple who is living now. No matter how bad the movie is made. Be it real or perhaps it will happen one day in the not so distance future. In this futuristic action thriller <Looper>, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. Just so you think you may not have enough from Joseph Gordon-Levitt in <Batman - The Dark Knight Rises>, here he comes again playing the Looper when the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "Looper" - a hired gun, like Joe (the potential Batman to be - Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self  portrayed by Bruce Willis for assassination. This concept and the idea was good but the execution leave quite a few of question marks and confusion while the story develops. We may not bet smart enough to get the message to be deliver but at least for a very long time we have seen Bruce Willis' hair were grown....a little and made him a patriarch. We urge you to pay more attention to the young boy Cid ( Pierce Gagnon) who has the supernatural power and being hunted by the Looper to get killed. He was simply phenomenal and with best execution from his role, a real young actor making his fame to be known in the near future.

 



6 Minutes @ Chris Tyrrell

 Chris Tyrrell, the 5th generation of Tyrrell's wines and the future of Tyrrell Winemaking Dynasty alongside with his sister Jane and brother John. Chris is now wearing many hats to up keep the family business and to further the brand name to wider wine enthusiasts especially in the fat east. The 29 years old young and energetic Chris hosted a French-inspired lunch in Cepage by pairing some of the finest wines from Tyrrell's Wines, mylifestylenews met up with Chris in person to find out Chris's passage and his truthful passion in wine making business......

 

Being the 5th generation of the Tyrrell winemaking family business, there are too many hats on me and alongside with my sister Jane and my brother John to reinvent and to upkeep the brand to many of our followers.

 

150 years till to date, Tyrrell's wine is still very much 100% family own and there are still certain style of wines that we made from the single vineyard with very specific criteria and requirement with high quality control. Only 200-300 cases of wines we produce with a limitation to ensure the quality and the specification are met.

 

My first vintage was at age 18 in 2001, which was the first vintage after the passing of Australian winemaking legend of my grandfather, Murray Tyrrell. My apprenticeship begun since to ensuring that my grandfather’s tradition of “a Tyrrell in the winery, making wine” remained unbroken.

From then on I had worked in the family company, in between vintages in the sales and marketing department until the end 2005 when I returned to work full-time in the winery. Since then, I have been an assistant winemaker working with two of the great modern day Hunter Valley winemakers, Chief Winemaker Andrew Spinaze and Red Winemaker Mark Richardson.

I had spent time in and around some of the greatest estates and wine regions in the world including Burgundy, the Rhône, Bordeaux and Spain. In recent years, the rest of the Tyrrell winemaking team and I focus heavily on improving, and in some cases, reinventing Tyrrell’s classic regional styles and single vineyard sites. Specifically, the flagship Semillon and Shiraz wines from some of the world’s oldest vineyards.

With the different roles that I am representing in Tyrrell's wine, being a winemaker is still what I like best. It gives me the opportunity further represent the brand and my present role as a Assistant winemaker now to share further in depth experience and knowledge to the people that I meet while I travel. All these to serve one purpose, to ensure that the family winemaking legend continues for one of the world’s great wine families.

I am still being an active judge in the Australian wine show circuit and runs the Hunter Valley Young Winemakers Group. In 2012, I was named "Rising Star of the Year" at the Hunter Valley Wine Industry Awards and recently accepted into the fifth intake of the Wine Industry Future Leaders Program which focuses on developing the next generation of Australian wine industry leaders.

 

My great great grandfather Edward Tyrrell was an English immigrant and established Tyrell's Wines in 1858 in the lee of the Hunter Valley's Brokenback Range, New South Wales. This land has become recognised as home to some of the Hunter Valley region's first vineyards, and the basis for development of one of Australia's most successful privately owned wine companies.

 

Today, Tyrrell's produce premium vineyards extended from Hunter Valley to other distinguished grape growing regions of Australia including McLaren Vale in South Australia and Heathcote in Victoria.

 

Wine business has some interesting grown in China lately, many people have the willingness to learn and curious about wines. Many refined wineries around the world has its reputation grown even from words of mouth or through 3rd party endorsements. For Tyrrell's Wine, we have at least 25% growth in Hong Kong alone.

 

The difference between old world wines and new worlds are the old world wines has much more strict rules and regulation to up keep the production and the brand names whereas the new world wine like Australia wine are more flexible in terms of wine production. That also allow us to produce some new blend of wines without too much of a restriction.

 

You always ask for recommendation when you come to some wines that are stranger to you. By accepting the comments and experience it yourself to find out what's there other could offer. Same goes for Tyrrell's wines, you need to taste it yourself and give your own judgement and suggestion. The more you do it, the more you will discover what your like or dislike. All these adding to your experience in wine appreciation.

 

 

The 2008 Hunter Valley Moon Mountain Chardonnay that we are drinking now sourced from premium Chardonnay vineyards within the Lower Hunter Valley, the fruit underwent partial fermentation in stainless steel tanks before being transferred to French oak barriques to complete the fermentation.

 

This is skillfully crafted through the amalgamation of fruit and balanced wood handling, this wine has an energy and personality that comes from the dedication of making a perfect example of a Hunter Valley chardonnay.

 

The freshness of this chardonnay makes a perfect combination to seafood, chicken or pasta dishes. Excellent drinking upon release and will also develop bottle age complexity.

 

The Hunter Valley Vat 1 Semillon 2005 is a classic Hunter Valley Semillon showing a tightly structured palate with considerable length and breadth of citrus fruit flavours. The wine is only just beginning to evolve and show a hint of toasty, bottle aged complexity. Moreover, an iconic Australian wine forms what is a classic vintage for Hunter Valley Semillon.

 

It sourced from the Short Flat and Johnno's vineyards, dating back to 1908 dry grown and on their own roots. A dry winter and spring with some rain through mid to late December that filled out the bunches and followed by a dry harvesting period that gave this wine a smaller crop that 2004 but with more concentrated flavours.

 

The grapes were hand picked then lightly crushed before a relatively cool fermentation in stainless steel. After a short period of gross lees, the wine was racked and left to mature in stainless steel for further five months before bottling.

 

This 2005 vintage has been awarded 5 trophies, 22 gold, 6 silver and 6 Bronze medals.



 

The 2009 Johnno's Shiraz had a god rain throughout winter and spring saw us set for a great vintage. Having a classic 1970s style, this Shiraz is light to medium bodied Hunter red, delicate and spicy with great palate length and acid structure.

 

The new oak component acts as a framework to the wine but does not overpower it with the fruit being primary focus to the wine.

 

This vineyard was planted in 1908 is light, sandy soil at the edge of Mary Ann's creek in the southern boundary of the original property. Originally known as the Long Flat vineyard, the name was changed in 2002 to Johnnos after the firth generation family member by my brother John Tyrrell.

 

The 2009 Hunter Valley Vat 9 Shiraz was sourced from Tyrrell's super premium vineyards on the Ashman's property with an average vine age of 50 years. Predominately from the Weinkeller and Short Flat vineyard.
 

The dehydrated berries lifted the sugars and toughened the skins whilst maintaining a great balance of flavours. Bright purple in colour, the wine has a fresh nose of berries and violets with a subtle oak lift.

 

 

The palate is medium weight with the immediate fruit sweetness being the core of the palate structure. The oak fills out the mid palate which is extended with a fine, clean acid structure. A creamy, soft textured wine which is a great example of modern Hunter Shiraz.

 

 

 

"My favorite possession is my old vintage watch and my dog Harvey." Said Chris Tyrrell.

mylifestylenews @ Chris Tyrrell



Mario Batali @ CARNEVINO Opens in Central Hong Kong

Mario Batali opens its latest steak house CARNEVINO in Central Hong Kong from the award wining steak house from Las Vegas. CARNE came from the highest quality of steaks, expertly prepared, and VINO for the remarkable regional wines from Batali and Joe Bastianich's interpretation and celebration of the classic steakhouse. 

Located on the 5th floor of the sparkling new LHT Tower, Central, CARNEVINO provides exquisite classic steak house dining in classic surroundings. The 5,000 square feet spacious dining house 140 guests with an ambience with marble, leather and wood touches designed to delight the most discerning diners.

Using the only highest quality beef, superior ingredients and a global wine selection to execute Batali and Bastianich's food and drink philosophy. Leading the kitchen team are Batali Proteges, Corporate Chef, Zach Allen together with Executive Chef Eli Anderson. Chef Anderson's team again with Zach after working with him at CARNEVINO in Las Vegas.

With a selection of private dining rooms, ranging from 6 to 40 guests by presenting high-energy yet luxurious dining within a stunning environment with remarkable culinary experience.

The menu focuses on their very own minimum five-week dry aged steaks and presents fresh and inspiring modern cuisine alongside the traditional steak house classic rounded out with various source-verified meat, fish, poultry, and unique spins on traditional steak house appetizers, as well as and sides.