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Wine with Leslie: A focus on Austria, a wine producing country that is often overlooked

A focus on Austria this week, a wine producing country that is often overlooked. Austria has transformed itself from a bulk wine producer in the 1970s and 80s into a consistently high-quality wine region with some of the strictest wine laws.

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Wine with Leslie Williams: Sticking with Ireland’s favourite Iberian grape, Albariño

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Wine with Leslie Williams

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Hang onto summer with these wine selections

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It's in the stars: What your horoscope says about your food preferences

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Wine with Leslie Williams: The perfect Christmas gifts

Wine with Leslie Williams: A look into Sicily's long history of viticulture

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean and fiercely independent — it is after all an island between two continents — Africa and Europe

Sat, 24 Feb, 2018

Wine: Re-discovering the south of France

Back to southern France again this week, as I find myself enjoying the wines from here more and more.

Sat, 09 Dec, 2017

The Menu: Farewell to Fenn’s Quay - a Leeside institution

Joe McNamee brings you all the latest news from the food world. 

Sat, 29 Jul, 2017

Wine for the summer

With summer holidays rapidly approaching I’m focusing on the Loire this week, given that so many of us will find ourselves in France in the coming months. 

Sat, 01 Jul, 2017

Some good value Italian wines recommended this week

This week I am returning to Italy with a scattered selection of suggestions that range from north to south.

Sat, 10 Jun, 2017

Six wines to get you in the mood for summer

I always feel I am tempting fate when I write about wines for summer in Ireland — I feel as if the weather gods are waiting to thwart me should I even mention the garden or the word barbecue.

Mon, 05 Jun, 2017

Wines of Morocco can help banish January blues

If you are reading this page I’m assuming you are not on the dry for the month of January, a practice that rather baffles me given the depression that often settles on people in this darkest of months.

Sat, 14 Jan, 2017

The best stocking filler wines for any budget

With Christmas just a few hours off, Leslie Williams has a guide to the best wine stocking fillers that will suit any meal over the coming days.

Sat, 24 Dec, 2016

Wine: The independent importers under threat thanks to Fine Gael

I wrote recently about the difficulties facing small wine shops given the predatory pricing in the supermarkets and chain stores. This week I want to focus on the companies that supply many of these shops, the independent importers.

Sat, 19 Nov, 2016

Beer of the week: Porterhouse Plain Porter

Porterhouse Plain Porter, 5.0% ABV; 330ml — €2.10

Sat, 13 Aug, 2016

Some Monastrell and good value wines are listed for this week

This weekend I will be at Ballymaloe House near Midleton for the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine.

Sat, 21 May, 2016

Restaurant review: Cavern Wine Bar, Dublin 4

THERE’S a question I get asked a lot — which is more important to you, food or wine?

Sat, 23 Apr, 2016

Wine: Beautiful Beaujolais

Springtime is here and at this time of year I crave fruit in my wine and there are few fruitier or more pleasurable wines than a good Beaujolais.

Sat, 13 Feb, 2016

The Menu: Pre Greenshine concert meal, Douglas Farmers' Market, White Glove Afternoon Tea and Barry Tyner’s pate

FEED THE LOVE

Sat, 06 Feb, 2016

Wine: Off-Licence of the Year Awards

The results are in and the 2016 National Off-Licence of the year is a shop that features regularly in my stockist list — Baggot Street Wines.

Sat, 06 Feb, 2016

Wine: A nostalgic theme

I have a nostalgic theme this week as I was reminded at recent tastings by how much our tastes have changed since I first became interested in wine.

Sat, 31 Oct, 2015

Wine: Craft brewers only people happy with Budget 2016

The only people that seem to be happy with Budget 2016 are the craft brewers. 

Sat, 24 Oct, 2015

I predict a comeback of Romanian wines

The world of wine has changed a lot in the last 25 years. 

Sat, 04 Jul, 2015

Wine suggestions this week include some lovely blends

I have bad news.

Sat, 30 May, 2015

Biurko Crianza 2010, Rioja, Spain - €15.95 Sepp Moser Gruner Veltliner, Austria - €16.50 Mustiguillo Mestizaje 2013, Valencia, Spain - €19.95

Stockist: Cases Wine Warehouse Galway www.cases.ie

Sat, 30 May, 2015

Wine suggestions this week include nice Proseccos

May seems to have become food and wine festival month. This weekend it is Wexford’s turn with a craft beer trail in the town tomorrow. Greenacres wine shop will be hosting wine tastings Saturday and Sunday.

Sat, 23 May, 2015

Wines New Wave — Lighter and Fresher

The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine is next weekend and there are lots of drinks-related events. 

Sat, 09 May, 2015

The menu: Boyne beckons

BOYNE BECKONS

Sat, 02 May, 2015

The Menu: Camera-friendly food

There is no doubt modern technology has evolved a whole new dimension to the consideration and appreciation of the nosebag.

Sat, 11 Apr, 2015

How did I get a job like this?

When I tell people that I write about wine they immediately ask “how do I get a job like that?” The answer I generally give is that I have no specialist skills but I do think about the wines I taste and drink a lot more than most people.

Sat, 07 Mar, 2015

The menu: Time to plan the perfect Valentine’s Day surprise

While Mrs Menu informs him that he is not currently in the market for true love and will wind up in traction if he takes to acting otherwise, the feast of St Valentine is nigh upon us and the only route to a man’s heart, through the belly, is a longtime and exceedingly well-worn path for The Menu.

Sat, 07 Feb, 2015

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

Drain the brain for Down Syndrome Ireland Foodie quiz

The Menu is taking his brain out of the vaults once more for its annual airing at The Great Irish Foodie Quiz 2014 (Oct 7@7.30pm). 

Sat, 04 Oct, 2014

Tuck into best of Wild Atlantic Way

While The Menu remains forever enraptured by our glorious West coast, he knows full well that man does not live on scenery alone...

Sun, 15 Jun, 2014

Southern comfort at food awards

The Menu, having saddled up the doughty Neidin and ensured his Party Hat was cocked at a particularly rakish angle, lit out for the Big Smoke earlier this week to the Irish Food Writer’s Guild Annual Food Awards, one of the highlights of the Irish culinary year when the cream of Irish food writers assemble to honour the world-class Irish food world.

Sun, 16 Mar, 2014

Wine: Point West Touriga Nacional 2009, Portugal — €9.99 (was €12.99)