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Celebrate Wine Day with the best white in the world

Riesling is the greatest white wine grape in the world. Grab one of these bottles for under €25 to toast Wine Day this week

Celebrate Wine Day with the best white in the world — Today marks National Wine Day in the US and there's no reason we can't celebrate here in Ireland.

Tue, 25 May, 2021 - 10:41

Leslie Williams

Riesling is the greatest white wine grape in the world. Yet it is regularly ignored by the most enthusiastic wine consumers.

I don’t have favourites, but when Riesling is good it can make me weep with pleasure.

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