This topic has peculiar resonance for me as I’ve just spent the last couple of days logging my modest wine collection. I used to have a kid’s exercise book with ‘Cellar Book’ written somewhat pompously in marker on the front. I was always very casual about updating and – as I have wines in 5
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STORING WINE – cellar, cupboard, under the stairs, you’ve got to keep those prized bottles somewhere
GLEESONS-GILBEYS PORTFOLIO TASTING Feb 2011
A day in a wine writer’s life. I get up, dress, eat my porridge then phone the Guinness Storehouse to see if they have a wheelchair. Oh dear, apparently they don’t. I should maybe make it clear that my request stems not from the previous night’s over indulgence but from a knee operation. The Storehouse
NEW ZEALAND WINE FAIR, DUBLIN – Jan 2011
But first… the AW, WTF THESE THINGS HAPPEN AWARD Anyone looking at the site earlier may have seen a list of the Noffla (National Off-Licence Association) Awards. Thanks to Evelyn Jones at the admirable Vintry in Rathgar I am now advised that the press release they sent me at my request (I couldn’t make the
New Wines from M&S
Attended the Marks & Spencer tasting of their latest offerings, here are my notes. The tasting took place in the cellar of WHPR/Ogilvy & Mather building in Ely Place. Some of the whites were too chilled, some of the reds a tad soupy but otherwise the event was really well organised – spittoons, clipboards with
So it Goes…
This Week’s Decent Drinking I make no apologies for making this week’s WOTW a wine you are unlikely to be unable to buy. The 2000 John Wade Cabernet Sauvigon/Merlot/Cabernet Franc I opened tonight I picked up at the vineyard on a visit to Denmark and Albany, at the bottom end of Western Australia in 2002.
O'Brien's Christmas Portfolio Tasting 2006
At the Four Seasons, O’Brien’s had assembled a collection of what many of us will be drinking this festive season and invited the wine scribes to preview same. Overall the quality was outstandingly high and the rise-and-rise of this progressive chain seems set to continue, thanks chiefly to the efforts of the buying team, skilfully
Wine notes July 2006 Pinot Noir
When I started this column I cautioned against over-emotive language. Well, now for a grape that’s inspired more exuberant metaphors than you’d find in the complete works of James Joyce. Wine writers laud it to the skies. In Burgundy, where it first gained fame, vignerons also lavish choice epithets on pinot noir. Among other things,
Sunday Independent Wine Columns
Napoleon said “Every soldier carries a marshal’s baton in his knapsack.” Not that I was ever a military man but if I was he’d have found a cook’s knife and a corkscrew in mine. I started cooking at an early age. I was a ‘latchkey kid’, though the term had not then been invented. My
Wine Notes June 2006
WINE FOR THE GARDEN La Rose du Monbousquet 2005 e11.99 O’Brien’s Rating 14.5/20 As a change from my usual Chateau de Sours I’ve been drinking this blushing beauty – O’Brien’s. Rose, in my opinion, is one of the hardest wines to get right. Too much acidity and you may as well go suck a lemon.
Wine notes March 2006
Chateau La Grave Rose 2005, Minervois e10 Rating 14/20 At certain times of the year, wine tastings, large and small run back to back, like buses when you don’t need one. February is one such month. A tasting most of the wine scribes are loath to miss is that organised annually by the Searsons –
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