Event: Rhone Wine Week

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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The Menu: Food news with Joe McNamee

Here’s what’s going on in the world of Irish food:

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Wine: Take a drive and discover wine country

To get a feel for the world of wine you need to get a feel for geography and do a bit of driving – perhaps from Napa to Sonoma, from Bra to Barbaresco or take a drive up the D2 from Bordeaux through Margaux, St. Julien, Pauillac and St. Estephe. 

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The menu: Dine in the dark, Rhone Wine Week and TouRRoir 16

The Menu has to cast his mind back to the literal and metaphorical dark days of boarding school to recall the last time he regularly ate in total darkness, scoffing biscuits under the covers after lights out, the better to supplement the school canteen’s daily deep-fried offerings of items that may or may not have contained actual food.

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Wine: A nostalgic theme

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The menu: Chocolat

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Weekend Wine

The Menu: Savour Wild & Slow Food Festival

If ever there was a time to visit the Garden County of Wicklow, then it is in early November as woodlands and forest swap summer green for the unspeakably beautiful autumnal palette, one of nature’s finest shows and a most exquisite closing act to the wild food foraging season. 

Sat, 01 Nov, 2014

Wine by Leslie Williams

THE last week of November was Rhone Wine Week organised by the ever busy Simon and Emma Tyrrell of Tyrrell and Co. who import a range of wines from the region, including one that Simon himself makes called Les Deux Cols which featured here a few weeks ago.

Sun, 15 Dec, 2013

Gourmet gong winners yet to be announced

Having regained his decorum, after a bout of illness, it is straight back to business for The Menu.

Sun, 17 Nov, 2013