The Menu: A wonderful wine and cheese collaboration in west Cork

Fionnuala Harkin, of Wines Direct, and whose Wine Shed West Cork engages in an online cheese and wine collaboration with Dingle's The Little Cheese Shop. Picture: Thady Trá

The Menu is counting down the days to a very splendid online collaboration that has him greatly enthused, a coming together of two of his most favourite things, wine and cheese, courtesy of two of his most favourite people in Irish food and wine.

The Menu well recalls his earliest encounters with Fionnuala Harkin, in her newly opened and very charming little Italianate bistro, Fionnuala’s, in Clonakilty, offering simple, tasty dishes and decent wines, when that class of casual dining was still in its infancy in Ireland, and it became a great favourite of he and a then much younger No 1 Son.