Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

THE Cork Wine Fair hosted by O’Donovans off-licences last week provided some new discoveries and interesting new themes for the attentive wine fan.

It’s the nature of such tastings — you’ll never know how much you might like some of those wines until you ‘suck it and see’ as the advert for lozenges used to say.

Below are a handful of highlights, and we’ll continue next week (with an eye on the Christmas dinner) with some astounding if slightly left-field white wine choices.