HOW TO CHOOSE WINE

The number one question I’m regularly asked in relation to wine, is ‘what’s the best wine to buy’? The answer is simple of course, buy…

WINE CHEAT SHEET

If there’s one thing I learned on my recent wine course, it’s how much I didn’t know before it. And how much more there is…

Bordeaux Banter

Bordeaux is only a one hour and twenty minute flight from Dublin, who knew? Oh, all of you, ok. Well, I hadn’t been to France since I was a child so I was pretty excited to head over to what’s basically the centre of the wine universe last week. The lovely people at Lidl played host to our gang of about 25 and I was lucky enough to stay in the Grand Hôtel de Bordeaux, a gorgeous five star hotel in a seriously fancy 18th-century building right in the city centre