Not even queens or a bona-fide lady rate on the slippery ladder that leads to Sydney's A-list.

Spike hears (we weren't invited) a dew beautifully sculptured noses were put out of joint on Monday night when guests at a series of swanky events put on my the French bubbly house, Moet, in Waterloo realised they were al on different grades of invitations.

These victims of social apartheid discovered invites ranged from a wine tasting, a lavish but exclusive dinner party and a late night knees-up.

We hear those invited to the wine tasting were not invited to the dinner. Those invited to the after-party were not welcome at the dinner either. Spike understands it was mostly wine writers who attended the bronze-level wine tasting. Celebrity hairdresser Joh Bailey (top) joined the likeness of Lady Sonia McMahon (below) and Patrick Keating at the slver-level after-party, while a very select group of movers and shakers were given the gold treatment with a 'divine' dinner cooked by Christine Manfield. How cosy. Back