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Piper Heidsieck: what’s new?

February 8, 2020 by Maureen

I’m sometimes asked at wine courses and wine tastings about the connection between various Heidsieck champagnes. The story starts in the late 1600s, when the Champagne region was a busy trading route for cloth from northern Europe and goods from the Mediterranean.  The original Florens Louis Heidsieck, a cloth merchant from Germany, switched from bouclé […]

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Filed Under: Wine Recommendations Tagged With: Emilien Boutillat, Piper Heidsieck Essentiel, Piper Heidsieck Rose Sauvage, Piper Heidsieckep

Castellani: blending old & new

May 14, 2019 by Maureen

Piergiorgio Castellani is the fourth generation of the Castellani family to run the estates. Castellani have six properties, five in Chianti (in Colline Pisane) and one in Chianti Classico. It’s a sizeable portfolio for a family-owned winery: • 300ha vineyards. Sourcing from growers in a further 1,000ha. • 90 employees • 26 million bottles per […]

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Filed Under: Wine Recommendations Tagged With: Burchino, Castellani, Ceppaiano, machine-harvesting by GPS, Pedro Parra, Pheromone traps, Poggio al Casone, spectrophotometric machine-harvesting, vineyard biodiversity

Alsace – 10 key facts

May 11, 2018 by Maureen

  I met someone last week who was surprised that I knew where Colmar was. But of course, for any wine lover, it’s the heart of Alsace!  Having learned so much about its history and geology through the French Wine Scholar  course, I was thrilled to visit the area a couple of years ago. Ireland’s […]

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Filed Under: Learn about wine Tagged With: Alsace Wine Week, Big Alsace Tasting, Ely CHQ, Eugene Meyer, French Wine Scholar, wine courses

Learn about wine: Grü Ve

May 3, 2018 by Maureen

Some years ago, at a WSET wine course, I opened a mature bottle of Laurenz V’s ‘Charming’ Grüner Veltliner. The class fell silent in its appreciation. Since then, I’ve been trying to age a few bottles from good vintages (like 2015 and 2013 – ’memorable’ age-worthy vintages) for future enjoyment.When young, Grüner Veltliner is appreciated […]

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Filed Under: Food and Wine Tagged With: Birgit Eichinger, Brundlmayer, Domaene Wachau, FX Pichler, John Wilson, Schloss Gobelsburg, Türk, Willi Klinger, Winzer Krems, WSET wine course

 A Trilogy of Emotions

April 5, 2018 by Maureen

Tommasi, Casisano & Paternoster I was delighted to accept an invitation to a Tommasi wine tasting. I’d always admired the very traditional labels and hefty bottles. Tommasi started in 1902, and is now regarded as one of the top producers of Amarone, exported all over the world.  In Ireland, Tommasi was the first wine agency […]

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Filed Under: Wine Recommendations Tagged With: A Trilogy of Emotions, Casisano, Cassidy Wines, Magnifica, Paternoster, Tommasi

Learn about wine: Barbaresco

March 1, 2018 by Maureen

Barbaresco is perhaps one of the most muscular red wines on the planet – pale yet full-bodied, firmly tannic, with high acidity. In youth it gives earth, violets, roses and tart red fruit, becoming more tarry, leathery and liquorice-like with age. It is delicious with hearty winter dishes of slow-cooked beef, rabbit, lamb, venison, white […]

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Filed Under: Learn about wine Tagged With: Aldo Vacca, Karwigs, Produttori del Barbaresco

Cabernet Day 2017

August 30, 2017 by Maureen

Do you like a full-bodied red, with fairly grippy tannin and black fruit?  Bold enough to warrant some oak-ageing?  A wine that can develop cedar, mocha, graphite with age?  Something to pair with hearty roast beef, steak, venison? Then look no further than Cabernet Sauvignon. If you need an excuse to treat yourself, I can […]

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Filed Under: Wine Recommendations Tagged With: Cabernet Day 2017, Clos des Fous

How Riesling Ages

July 26, 2017 by Maureen

I regularly give 6-9 year old traditional Mosel Rieslings at my wine courses.  Many students are confounded by its petrolly aromas, and undecided about its honeyed flavours, balanced against finely chiselled acidity. Winemason, one of the leading importers of German wines in Ireland,* invited Anne Krebiehl MW to Ireland this summer, to give a very […]

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Filed Under: Learn about wine Tagged With: Anne Kriebel MW, Barbara Boyle MW, Winemason

Single Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Tuscany

June 21, 2017 by Maureen

Imagine a steak without salt.  Enjoyable, but missing something…. Drinking a top notch Italian wine without food falls into the same state of limbo. This was brought home to me yet again, at a Masterclass on Single Estate Extra Virgin Olive oil in Jamie Oliver’s restaurant in Dundrum, presented by David Gleave, MW, of Liberty […]

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Filed Under: Food and Wine Tagged With: David Gleave MW, Liberty Wines

Introducing Brimoncourt Champagne

June 12, 2017 by Maureen

A rainy and relatively quiet June afternoon coincided nicely with an invitation from Boutique Wines to the launch of Brimoncourt Champagne in Ireland.  The venue was Pichet Restaurant,looking good after a revamp about a year ago.  The warm welcome from Johnny and Phil from Boutique Wines, as well as Jeremy from Pichet lifted my spirits […]

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Filed Under: Learn about wine Tagged With: Boutique Wines, Brimoncourt, Pichet

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