I’m sure this will get me slaughtered by my food and wine matching buddies but, sod it, here goes! Think back, long before the days when you started drinking wine. When you slurped Coke along with your beefburgers or Marmite soldiers did you pause to consider whether the combo worked? Did you, for tastebuds’ or
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So it goes… This week's decent drinking
Sibella is out to dinner with her golfing chums. Which is why I’m tucking into bacon ribs, cannellini beans (no butter beans down the local deli) and Savoy cabbage, the sort of fare I always find for myself when milady is absent as she’s far too ‘refeened’ to partake of that good ole peasanty grub.
El Bahia
The poet Milton wrote “They also serve who only stand and wait”. Well, John boy, can you hear me up there on your Commonwealth cloud? I’ve got news for you and the news is “they don’t”, at least not in wildest Wicklow Street. At El Bahia last Saturday night there was plenty of standing, mostly
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
Book Review: Life's too Short to Drink Bad Wine
Brendan O’Connor’s hymn to his Nespresso coffee maker in the Sunday Independent ‘Life’ Magazine a few weeks ago intrigued me sufficiently to want to draw parallels with wine. Let me first state my position; I am a coffee fanatic, a fundamentalist worshipper of the small brown bean. I have, at home, a semi-commercial espresso machine,
'Rising Stars' – Spanish Wine Tasting
Like football, the wine-tasting season is back in full swing. Today Spain, tomorrow, the Adelaide Hills. I do hope everyone planning to organise an event this year poked their head through the door of The Great Room at The Shelbourne during the Spain ‘Rising Stars’ tasting, which was simply the best-organised tasting in the history
So it goes….
This week’s decent drinking Ask any wine buff what the name Henschke means to them and it’s odds on that they’ll come up with the words “Hill of Grace”. This top dollar shiraz is truly an Australian icon, one of the few that gets mentioned in the same breath as Penfold’s Grange. ‘Hill of Grace’
Get out of your comfort zone
The other day, en route to a wine tasting, I was walking up Grafton Street. The sun was shining the buskers were out in force. Halfway up the street a couple of girls were knocking out old Beatles’ hits. They were pretty damn woeful. Both played guitars and, between them, could just about scrape up
Beyond the call of duty
English and (spot the) Irish wine scribes on tour in Priorat, Montsant, Terra Alta, Conca de Barbera and Tarragona eagerly await wine No 247 in a Series
Bloody back labels!
The label on the front of the bottle Sibella and I are halfway through tells me it’s a 2007 Merlot from Patagonia, Argentina, with a strength of 14% alcohol by volume. I’m also informed that the wine is a ‘Reserve’ – a term, I’m afraid, that’s virtually meaningless. In certain regions of Europe the term
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