A focus on the Mosel and its tributaries this week as I have found myself drinking it in a couple of restaurants recently.

My selections this week are from the Lidl French wine sale plus some new Alsace wines from Karwigs in Carrigaline, Co Cork — Chateau d’Orschwihr.

Austrian wine has come a long way in the last 30 years and if you haven’t been exploring their wines you are missing out.

A retired lecturer’s near fatal Alps accident and a recently completed 2,300k trek has prompted a memoir that says we are all to "passive and accepting" of self imposed limitations when it comes to getting older, writes Colette Sheridan.