The 10 best bars in Sydney to enjoy wine and delicious cheese 0 Likes

The drinking and cheese together is now paired at pubs for the people to relish the magic of mouth watering combination. Each is delicious on its own, but when you pair the two, magic can happen be it tannic, light, sweet, or dry, you can bet there’s a wine out there for every cheese. There are many types of wines that are paired with delicious cheese. Like the delicate flavors of Gruyère would be overwhelmed by a big, bold Cabernet Sauvignon, but are perfectly balanced when paired alongside a Pinot Noir. As a rule wines over 14.5% ABV are more intense and taste better with more intensely flavored cheeses and wines under 12% ABV are less intense and match nicely with more delicately flavored cheeses.

So if you wish to fix yourself up a cheese plate with wine here are the 10 best bars in Sydney to enjoy wine and delicious cheese.

1. Continental Deli Bar Bistro

Location: 210 Australia St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia

Phone: +61 2 8624 3131

Continental Deli Bar Bistro is your perfect lunch location in Sydney. Perch yourself along the counter to try theirselections of cheese, charcuterie and tinned fish, paired with a recommended drink or two. At Newtown a downstairs deli opens at 11am and becomes a casual bar/restaurant as the later hours creep in, while upstairs there's a bistro for those fancier nights out. But downstairs is where you would hand out and putting serious dents in their collection of natural wines and French cheeses that they serve with a sweet potato paste from Argentina. Continental also offers a sophisticated take on a whole host of other classic cocktails, primarily revolving around sherries, vermouths and house-made liqueurs. Open from morning to night 7 days, it’s a Can-tastic way to spend an afternoon.

By night the Bistro steps it up with its shared-style, Mediterranean influenced menu. Available from 6 pm, it features ingredients from their deli with great seasonal produce to be enjoyed in a fun and casual dining space. The selection of wines feature back vintages of classic Australian varietals and a complimentary worldly selection.

2. The Stinking Bishops

Location: 5/63-71 Enmore Rd, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9007 7754

The Stinking Bishops specialise in all things cheese creating an original dining experience matched with their extensive wine list. They specialise in helping you curate your own amazing cheese boards from over 40 cheeses. They also offer a range of cured meats, light grazing meals, cheese inspired dishes as well as vegetarian options, salads and desserts. It’s $21 for two, $29 for three or $37 for four cheeses and you get to choose each and every one. Each board comes with bread and crackers, a small puck of quince paste, muscatels and a fig-and-walnut rolada, but that's all just window dressing for the main event.

Click here to know the wine menu to enjoy here.

3. Big Poppa's

Location: 96 Oxford St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia

Phone: +61 499 052 201

Big Poppa's takes cheese and drinks seriously and they take their curds at this new late night restaurant/bar hybrid on Oxford Street. Basically everything on the menu features cheese, but you can also just order your fromage straight up to go with a fruity beaujolais or a flinty riesling.

The venue is open 7 days a week - 5pm to 3am. Bookings are for the restaurant area only and can be made from: 5pm - 11.30pm. With hard and semi hard cheese from cow, sheep, goat and even donkey, then there are soft and semi soft cheese that comes from sheep.cow, buffalo and goat milk. Also they have blue cheese to offer.

The drinks are also awesome like My tarragonda don’t// 19 gin, curacao, lillet blanc, lemon, tarragon, Rock & glock// 17 prosecco, rockmelon, lemon, cognac, Beakers’ sour// 18 shay’s amaretto, apricot brandy, lemon, egg white, Missionary Downthyme// 18 blanco rum, peach liqueur, pineapple, lime, thyme, angostura bitters, Az-tech nine// 21 añejo tequila, vermouth, mandarin punch, cacao bitters and Chet Faker// 19 bourbon, punt e mes, salted maple syrup

At downstairs enjoy Rosa Parks// 20 blanco tequila, cocchi rosa, lemon, almond syrup, cardamom, Deceit & tonic// 19 applejack, peat whiskey, lemon, tonic, The party Purnell// 20 mandarin cognac, kaffir leaf and cranberry reduction, limeCalm before the storm// 20 bourbon, chamomile, ginger, lemon, IPA and many more.

4. 10 William Street

Location: 10 William St, Paddington NSW 2021, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9360 3310

Hole up in this tiny Paddington wine bar for an evening of all the crazy, raw, wild and feral Italian wines you can handle. To temper this fermented frenzy, they always have magnificent cheese available at market price. Whether it's a hard pecorino or a soft wedge of three-milk brie depends entirely on the whim of the kitchen. Check their drinks menu here. For cheese menu find here and their price.

5. PS40

Location: 2/40 King St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

PS40 is a cocktail bar and soda operation hiding just above eye level in the heart of the CBD. It's co-owned Michael Chiem and Thor Bergqvist, two rockstar Sydney bartenders with ludicrously impressive bar credentials, and in addition to ace wines these guys will also sort out the munchies with one or two cheeses, served with lavosh and a carrot, orange and ginger jam they make in-house.

At PS40 you can enjoy spicy, fragrant banh mi made with pork terrine can be dinner for only $12, or the vegetarian tartare that somehow manages to mimic a dish of minced beef with diced pickled vegetables, grilled eggplant and beetroot.

6. The Barber Shop

Location: 89 York St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9299 9699

The Barber Shop is located in the heart of the Sydney CBD, York Street and at Barangaroo and at night it is a place for men and women to gather to enjoy their great cocktail bar that specialise in the famed Juniper spirit as they house an extensive range of Gin ‘new and old’, Genever, specially crafted cocktails, boutique-bottled beers and artisanal spirits, plus a great selection of Australian and European wines. They've kept the snacks super-simple here, so you won't be the only one making short work of the house cheese plate. Click here to know the bar menu

7. Bulletin Place

Location: 10-14 Bulletin Pl, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Bulletin Place is a mecca for quality cocktails, liquor and wine served with care and genuine charm.

Their outstanding signature is a daily changing cocktail menu created from strictly seasonal produce that’s attained from the markets each morning. This offering is bolstered by a serious zest for the best classic cocktails.

The menu keeps changing here like you can have seasonally varied Australian wine list, weekly changing craft beers or ever changing spirits collection.

8. The Wine Library

Location: 18 Oxford St, Woollahra NSW 2025, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9360 5686

With huge wine collection you would love to visit this bar. You'd have to put in the hours to make even the smallest dent in their 15-page wine list, but if you wish to save yourself from this tedious task then get the professionals help you there. They also have five cheeses available for $15 each, or you can choose five for $30, which makes better economic and gastronomic sense to people.

9. The Lodge Wine Bar

Location: 3/415 Darling St, Balmain NSW 2041, Australia

Phone: +61 2 8084 2502

Lodge Bar is an intimate bar on the corner of Darling and Birchgrove Street in Balmain boasting an extensive wine list and carefully crafted food menu. The system here emulates that of Gerald’s Bar in Melbourne, whereby the first six wines ordered become the by-the-glass options for the day. The delicious seasonal produce with a Spanish and Mediterranean focus – food which is perfect shared with your favorite tipple and amongst friends. The little open kitchen at one end of the bar pumps out bar snacks but say keep it simple with a little cheese. It's nine dollars for one, $16 for two or three for $21.

Check here the wine list on offer

10. Cake Wines Cellar Door

Location: 16 Eveleigh St, Redfern NSW 2016, Australia

This bar was opened in 2016 in Sydney. Sitting at the intersection of wine and culture, the cellar door is their new permanent home which hosts tastings, food and wine events, gigs, talks, exhibitions, film screenings and a bunch of other wine and cultural experiences in the backstreets of Redfern. You can order your favourite wine bottle paired with cheese and relish the complete pairing of the two. You can even try their freshly made pizzas, with generous servings of cheese, meats, fresh fruit and dips. For full menu click here.