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
So it goes… Chilean press tasting, Dublin
I’d be failing in my duty if I failed to say that the recent ‘Good Value Wines from Chile’ tasting at the Radisson Golden Lane was a smidge short of whelming. I tasted the guts of a hundred wines, culled from all the major regions and found fewer than a dozen to excite me. I
So it goes…
This week’s decent drinking “Red Sancerre?” my dinner guests chorused. Life’s full of surprises, they thought it was Sauv B, I gave them Pinot Noir. This wine saved the night as yet another two bottles of expensive Aussie red suffered the Ernesto thumbs down for cork taint. No wonder wineries are going over to Stelvin
Gilbeys Portfolio Tasting – Oct 14 2006 – REDS, FIZZ and STICKIES
As tastings go this one was pretty good. Some decent whites, some nice surprises and even the big Burgundy houses didn’t entirely disappoint though they face stiff competition these days. So it was on to the reds and here, in amongst the average ‘it’ll do’ wines and the occasional duffer I did find some really
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,
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.
September 2005 Wines
Peppoli 2002, Chianti Classico e16.49 OB, SQ, Cana (Mullingar), RED, Harvest (Galway) Rating 15.5/20 A mid-ranger from the prolific and aristocratic house of Antinori, Peppoli’s sheer restraint may come as a surprise to those more used to swaggering new world reds and maybe all the better for it. The vanillins aren’t overdone thanks to the
Wine Notes June/July 2005
Craggy Range Te Muna Rd Sauvignon Blanc 2004 15.50 16.5/20 Smart as paint bristlingly mineral Sauvignon Blanc with heavyweight apple and citrus fruit framed by the gravelly aftertaste. Distinctive, interesting, hugely enjoyable Cloudy Bay chaser. Redmond’s Ranelagh,Claudios Georges St Arcade, Thomas’s Foxrock Craggy Range Gimblett Gravels Merlot 2002 c28.99 18.5/20 Hard to imagine that this
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