Wine with Leslie: Organic doesn’t have to mean pricey

For the next month, Leslie Williams will focus on small importers

A fine Rioja Joven as good as many a wine costing 25% more is in this week's roundup 

In recent weeks I’ve been giving the supermarkets and big players such as O’Briens far too much attention so for the next month I’m going to focus on small importers where I can.

Regular readers of this page will know how fond I am of the wines imported by Mary Pawle, and of course how fond I am of Mary herself. Mary and her husband Ivan have been at the forefront of the organic movement in Ireland since the 1970s, and a number of the icon organic wines imported into Ireland were first imported by Mary (eg, Château Le Puy and Dom de L’Ecu).