Wine with Leslie: The joy of natural wines - including these hip bottles for under €15

"The standard and availability of natural wines has improved massively since I first began to notice them in 2013-2014 or so - but they are still tough to find outside Dublin, Cork and Galway."

Natural wines are a growing phenomenon in the sector - and driving debate

A few weeks ago I dropped into Frank’s Wine Bar on Camden Street in Dublin, the kind of wine bar every town needs. Not for the first time, I bumped into Enrico Fantasia of Grape Circus wines and we had a lively debate about natural wines vs. conventional over glasses of juicy ripe Monastrell from Bodegas Los Frailes near Valencia (which he imports).

It was a fun debate - once I convinced Enrico that I actually like drinking natural and low-intervention wines and was not the enemy!