Only a couple of weeks to Budget 2015 and still time to contact Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, to encourage him to give small wine importers and wine shops a break by reducing our criminally high wine taxes.

First this week a reminder that school is back for wine enthusiasts as well as children. 

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

FROM the 1970s until recently, if someone mentioned Spanish wines your first (and only) thought was Rioja.