Laurent Miquel Heritage Syrah

SEPTEMBER is never a good month money-wise with the summer holidays a distant memory, the children arriving from school with requests for extra books and sports equipment, and the radio programmes beginning their doom-laden countdown to the next austerity Budget.

Thankfully there are a couple of wine sales this month, with more to come. Both Dunnes and Lidl have French wine sales that begin in the last week of September and both have found some interesting wines so watch this space.

O’Briens have a September wine sale at the moment and I will feature some of their bargain wines next week. If you are in their shop in Douglas or elsewhere in the country watch out for Ascheri Barolo down from €31 to €23 (bargain of the week in my view), and the generally excellent Rizzardi Amarone down from €41 to €30.