AS YOU enter the castle/hotel gates of Ballynahinch, and travel along its splendid lengthy drive, there is a sense that you will very shortly be overcome by grandiosity and an overbearing sense of self-importance. 

CHEAP plonk has the same effect on the palate as wine costing up to six times as much, a psychological taste test has shown.

CHEAP plonk has the same effect on the palate as wine costing up to six times as much, a psychological taste test has shown.

IF YOU want one example that shows that us folk are pretty weird even at the best of times, just consider how often our choice of wine is based solely on the grape variety in it. It’s nuts.