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. 

In Ireland, in the early 70s, farmhouse cheese production had all but vanished. 

A knob of butter

Buy everything on our shopping list and you have all you need to create five meals. Want to make just one of the dishes? Then follow Michelle Darmody’s colour-coded guide — for the Day One dinner, buy the ingredients marked with a red circle and so on.

French President François Hollande revealed several plots have been foiled in France in recent weeks. However, despite efforts a devastating attack was still able to occur in the offices of the satirical publication.

Buy everything on our shopping list and you have all you need to create five meals. Want to make just one of the dishes? Then follow Michelle Darmody’s colour-coded guide — for the Day One dinner, buy the ingredients marked with a red circle and so on.

Two rampaging drivers who injured a total of 23 people in nearly identical incidents in France were apparently mentally ill and the attacks are unlikely to be linked to terrorism, government officials have said.

Two rampaging drivers who injured a total of 23 people in nearly identical incidents in France were apparently mentally ill and the attacks are unlikely to be linked to terrorism, government officials said today.

Eleven people were hurt, five seriously, when a van drove into a Christmas market in France.

Security measures for police and other authorities have been stepped up after a driver said to be shouting “God is great” slammed into crowds in a French city, injuring at least 11 people and raising national concern as Islamic extremists call for attacks.

Wholegrain tagliatelle pasta for four

A DOLLOP of mayo can work wonders for the simplest sandwich. On hot new potatoes it’s a treat, and delicious smeared on barely cooked broccoli.

Agri-food firms Danone and Tanco have won the two top prizes at the Ireland France Business Awards.

2 sheets of puff pastry, rolled and each cut into 2

Fernando Alonso feels there is a lack of respect amongst Formula One drivers these days that did not exist many years ago.

Castres lock forward Matthias Rolland tells Ian Moriarty why the French side are no longer prepared to make up the numbers at Europe’s top table

AUDREY Petiot, a young Frenchwoman, came to Ireland to volunteer for four weeks on Annie King’s 5.5 acre organic farm outside Bantry in west Cork but she stayed five months.

CONSUMING olive oil can help prevent strokes among the over-65s, experts have discovered.

Fuel protesters in France today blockaded oil terminals and clashed with police.

A FRENCH “right to die” advocate who was refused permission for an assisted suicide has been found dead in the latest twist to a drama that has reopened a euthanasia debate the country thought it had concluded three years ago.

A CONTROVERSIAL France try, seven minutes from time, denied Ireland a famous victory in an entertaining schoolboy Under-18 international at Temple Hill last night.

SMALL, mobile groups of youths hit Paris’s riot-shaken suburbs with waves of arson attacks, torching hundreds of cars, as unrest entered its second week yesterday and spread to other towns in France.

Small, mobile groups of youths torched hundreds more cars near Paris today, and the violence and arson attacks that have shaken the capital’s suburbs for a week spread to other French towns.

Unions reacted with fury and the threat of legal action today to news that 400 jobs and 12 routes are to be cut at budget airline Buzz.

Fears are high Ryanair will scrap several routes operated by Buzz, the airline it is set to take over.

The survivors of a coach crash in France which killed a teenage schoolgirl have returned to Scotland for emotional reunions with their families.

A 15-year-old girl was killed and nine other people seriously injured after the coach taking them on a school trip crashed in France today.

One child was killed and 11 other people were seriously injured today when a coach carrying schoolchildren from Scotland crashed in France, police said.