Magill Estate

Ph: (08) 8301 5551; 78 Penfold Rd, MAGILL 5072 www.penfolds.com.au

Modern European, $$$, ** for Food & Ambience, Good Wine List
Open Lunch Fri noon-2.30pm; Dinner Tue-Sat 6.30pm-9.30pm, Closed Public holidays; Licensed; AE DC MC V EFT, Seats inside 85, Private rooms 16, 30, Kids welcomed
Chef (Jerome Tremoulet, 2007-10-29) Owner

Mietta's Review
Built in the middle of the original Penfold vineyard, Magill Estate is the company's eponymously named showcase restaurant. And very showy it is too, looking over the old vines of Magill to the lights of Adelaide. Under the direction of new chef, Jerome Tremoulet in early 2005, the kitchens at Magill now go some way towards fulfilling the restaurant's promise though at prices that Adelaide find it hard to stomach (mains $38-$44). The service smacks a little of hotel style training. As one would expect, the wine knowledge is excellent. This is a very special experience that is priced more for Sydney than the bush (sorry, Adelaide).

Other published opinions

Gourmet Traveller 2008 Australian Restaurant Guide "With long views over vines and city to the distant sea, this handsome dining room has lost none of its cachet"

Gourmet Traveller 2007 Australian Restaurant Guide Score: ** "This sleek, modernist dining room - set at the front of Penfolds' classic winery where Grange is made - overlooks old vines, the city skyline and distant gulf waters, and is a mecca for wine boffins seeking Penfolds rarities, including an $85 glass of the big G."

Adelaide Advertiser 2006 "One of Adelaide's most auspicious settings: historic winery buildings on the slopes of the Mt Lofty Ranges and a million-dollar view skimming west over Adelaide's skyline to the waters of Gulf St Vincent."

Gourmet Traveller 2006 Australian Restaurant Guide * "Among old bluestone winery buildings, with rolling vineyards in the foreground, the Penfolds owned Magill Estate is the supreme showcase for the label's wines. ... New French chef Jerome Tremoulet has set about exploring the best local produce for a menu that's traditional, but enlivened with Mod Oz touches."

Gourmet Traveller 2005 Australian Restaurant Guide ** "Housed in a sleek and modern pavilion above the vineyard, Magill Estate offers an unrivalled perspective on Adelaide. No expense has been spared in a fit-out featuring clean metallic and sassafras-timber surfaces. Low table-lighting helps maintain intimacy. Prices might turn locals' heads, but are in keeping with the fine-dining offerings."

Adelaide Advertiser score 14.5/20 Tony Love 29/6/05 "The Magill Estate Restaurant is luxurious from the opening of the door to the pouring of the wine and the curiosity of the cheese trolley. But the kitchen's offerings are well shy of all of these, the menu restrained, the dishes lacking greatness. It's a wine buff experience more than a complete package and difficult to justify such food prices."

The Weekend Australian, 21-22/2/04, Terry Plane,'the view outside is matched by the ambience within...tasteful decor and waiters gliding silently between tables...a list of just about every Penfolds wine and a floor crew that has service down to a fine balence between friendliness and formality...There's much to like about Magill Estate.it's just such a pity about the food.It's holding the place back..'

Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide Australia 2004, 2 Red Stars, Excellent wine list,'a remarkably relaxed place...cooking continues to mature in style, the waiters are effective and the view over the city from this rather palatial pavilion is sensational, with old Penfolds shiraz vines right out the front...The wine list has rare range and depth...The menu tends to be meat focused...terrific'

The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Living,12/11/02, Nigel Hopkins,'a stunning, pavilion style establishment overlooking the city'