Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

I’VE been catching up with the affordable end of two old-school wine wholesalers who supply independent wine stores.

Among the posh highlights in Coman’s range are Casa Lapostolle in Chile; Zind Humbrecht from Alsace in France, and Bodegas Valdamor’s Albarino from Spain’s Rias Baixas region. Two of the jewels in their crown are ranges from quality Australian producers — Peter Lehmann in the Barossa and Eden Valley and, from Victoria, Tahbilk — a noteworthy name, even if only for their reinvention of the white Rhone grape, marsanne.

Comans Wholesale, Belgard Road, Tallaght, D24. (01-4519146) www.comans.ie