Happy Birthday to Green Man Wines in Terenure who had their fifth anniversary recently

The world of wine falls into two very distinct categories — the big brands making easy drinking accessible wines to please as many as possible, and the smaller producers that make wines in their own way and as best they can but with little or no thought to what the market wants — if they like it, why shouldn’t others?

This week a focus on Austria, one of the most consistent wine producing countries on the planet — I’d even go so far as to say that I have yet to taste a wine from Austria that I didn’t like.

Easter is almost upon us and many of us will be preparing traditional roast lamb.

THE lights are on, the music is on the radio and the trees are up — there is no getting away from it: Christmas is imminent.