Wine & Duck
In Ireland we seem to shop from a very limited range of ingredients, with limited seasonal variation. Duck has made a welcome debut to our stores, and is now widely available. Much of it comes from...
View ArticleWines for Christmas Day
If you are part of a large gathering on Christmas Day, choose wines which will appeal to everyone, rather than anything too esoteric. Save your prized bottles for a quieter time, when you can...
View ArticleOutdoor eating & wine
How is it that food tends to taste better outdoors? Is it that fresh air works up an appetite, or that everyone helps out (for a change!). Or that relaxing feeling of warm sun on your skin. Perhaps...
View ArticleAlbariňo, anyone?
One of my favourite summer whites is Albariňo, thanks to its light body and fresh taste. Its flavours are subtle and elegant – grapefruit, pear and peach are accented by a certain saltiness,...
View ArticleSingle Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Tuscany
Imagine a steak without salt. Enjoyable, but missing something…. Drinking a top notch Italian wine without food falls into the same state of limbo. This was brought home to me yet again, at a...
View ArticleLearn about wine: Grü Ve
Some years ago, at a WSET wine course, I opened a mature bottle of Laurenz V’s ‘Charming’ Grüner Veltliner. The class fell silent in its appreciation. Since then, I’ve been trying to age a few bottles...
View ArticleChar Siu & Zinfandel
With a bit more time on my hands, and in between creating online wine courses, I finally cracked the recipe for slow-cooked belly pork, using a recipe for Char Siu Pork. It was melt in the mouth...
View ArticleEaster lamb & wine
Ch. Larose Trintaudon Médoc went down a treat at my one-day wine course recently, and people licked their lips when I recommended lamb as a food pairing. If you’re lucky enough to have roast leg of...
View ArticleCorks on court..
Corks flew at Wimbledon 2019. The correct way to open a bottle of champagne (chilled to 6-10˚C) is to hold the cork and twist the bottle.
View ArticleIrish wine drinkers disappointed…
Lulie Halstead, Chief Executive of a leading international research company, Wine Intelligence, reports that Irish wine drinkers are disappointed when drinking wine in bars and restaurants....
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