Events

La Disfida x Mercer Wines – A Night with Aaron Mercer

🍷 Wine, Dine & Good Times in Haberfield 🍝

Back by popular demand – La Disfida’s legendary dinner party series continues with one of the Hunter’s most exciting winemakers, Aaron Mercer of Mercer Wines.

Join us for a flavour-filled evening of storytelling, sipping and feasting. You’ll enjoy 8 wines from Mercer Wines alongside a stunning 4-course Italian dinner, carefully crafted to match each pour. Expect fresh zucchini flowers, slow-braised ossobuco, perfect pasta and pizza — and plenty of good wine and conversation in between.

Meet and chat with winemaker, Aaron Mercer, to share the stories behind his wines and what makes Mercer Wines one of the Hunter Valley’s most talked-about small producers.

🎟️ Limited seats – our last events sold out. Don’t miss your spot at the table.

📍 La Disfida, Haberfield

📅 Tuesday August 12th 2025

💰 $120

🕖 7 – 10pm

Brought to you by Tappo & Co x La Disfida x Mercer Wines – because dinner should never be boring.

LA DISFIDA MENU & WINES FROM MERCER

Entree

Fried zucchini flower stuffed with salmon and mascarpone

Vitello tonnato – Aromatic veal, thinly sliced, served in a tuna sauce with hints of caper and anchovy

• Pinot Grigio
• Vermentino

Pasta

Farfalle – Roast ocean trout, prawns, cherry tomato in vodka sauce and basil pesto

• Chardonnay 
• Limited Release Chardonnay

Pizza

Meat me in Italy – Tomato, mozzarella, mild salame, mushrooms, olives, ricotta, basil

• Montepulciano (Organic)
• Nero d’Avola

Secondi

Ossobuco braised in red wine sauce with dutch carrots and cauliflower

• Shiraz-Nouveau
• Limited Release Shiraz