Levantine Hill Estate launches $250 luxe burger made of lobster, champagne mayonnaise and edible gold
A Yarra Valley winery will launch a luxe burger, made from lobster, champagne and edible gold— but are you game enough to try it?
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It’s the burger and beer combo that might break your bank balance.
Yarra Valley winery Levantine Hill Estate will on Friday launch a $250 luxe burger teaming tempura lobster tail, champagne mayonnaise, duck-fat onion rings, wasabi leaf and wasabi butter in a squid-ink brioche bun dusted with edible gold.
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To wash it down, a $29 bottle of beer — the Goose Island 2018 Bourbon County Stout — will be sold in select Melbourne outlets for the first time today.
Only 2,340 of the 500ml bottles will be released in Australia, including roughly 200 in Victoria.
Beer expert Joe Lusk said it was “one of the hardest styles of beers to be brewed’’.
“It’s basically like a fine wine compared to a normal wine with complexity, an ageing process and careful handling,’’ he said. “The work that goes into this beer and its exclusiveness is why it’s easy to see why it’s so in demand.’’
While high beer prices are a cause of angst for many Australians, the high cost of the Bourbon County Stout is attributed to the fact it is aged in bourbon barrels for a year in Chicago.
It has an alcohol content of 15.2 per cent and is said to boast flavours of cocoa, vanilla, caramel, almond, cherry, leather and tobacco.
“It’s rich and strong but with a really luxurious texture that looks like espresso coffee,’’ Mr Lusk said. “As it ages the flavours change and that’s another reason it’s so popular.
“As it ages the booze backs off and the flavour mellows.’’
As well as the luxe burger, Levantine is dishing up a $180 “surf and turf” burger teaming wagyu, tempura scampi, manchego cheese, champagne mayo and pickled iceberg lettuce in a green matcha bun.
Its cheapest burger features top-grade wagyu beef with a marble score of nine as well as roasted foie gras and thick-cut bacon. That costs $130.
All are served with twice-cooked duck-fat fries.
Executive chef Luke Headon said: “They truly are made for the most discerning connoisseurs of fine yet wholesome food.”
The Goose Island beer will go on sale at Beermash in Collingwood and Vintage Cellars in Yarraville.
“There will be queues of people down the street,’’ Mr Lusk said.
“It’s like a Star Wars movie premiere.’’
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