January is a time to look ahead in hope and my main hope for 2018 is that independent, quality wine shops can stay in business. 

Ireland was always very brand-conscious up until recently and it took the arrival of the German discounters and the recession to shake us up a little.

Despite all the words this page has expended on a myriad of wines, the reason we are interested is because they all have one thing in common — “the power to banish care”.