Christmas is coming, but first things first – we are now in Game Season and we should start to see pheasant, partridges and wild ducks appearing in good butchers this month. 

AH SPAIN. Is there any wonder so many of us go there on holidays every year.

FOLLOWING on from last week’s theme of wines to match spicy food, a number of the ones recommended this week were tasted over an excellent meal in the long-established Indonesian restaurant Chameleon in Temple Bar.

NOW that we can get the same vegetables and fruit in the supermarket in January or July we have lost much of our instincts for eating seasonally.

HAVE you ever wondered what it is actually like to own your own vineyard in France?

MOST of us think of red wines made from Tempranillo and Garnacha (Grenache) when we think of Spain, but this week I want to highlight one of my favourite white wines.

SO that’s January out of the way for another year.

Ireland-based exploration company Ormonde Mining plc is to undertake a further drilling programme in north west Spain.

GUSTING winds and surging seas spread oil slicks to the major Spanish port of La Coruna as fishermen toiled in the dark to set up protective booms and meteorologists forecast more damaging storms for a region covered in sludge.