Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends
What’s Sour Grapes been sipping on, you’ve been asking. Well, I’m glad you’ve been asking and one of the better and more surprising is a Cabernet dominated blend from Israel (93% Cab, the rest being Cab Franc). The name of the winery Assaf, but as my Hebrew is just a little bit rusty, all I [...]
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Three very decent red wines from Molloys.
Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends, Wine, €15-€20
A Saperavi from Mukuzani in Kahketi. That’s a red from Georgia and a rather good one too.
Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends
If sourgrapes.ie can’t make it to Palmela, Palmela comes to sourgrapes.ie, courtesy of Wine Alliance in Cork.
Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends, White wine, €10-€15
Bubble Brothers finds a new voice and starts bloggeur outreach program.
Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends
Lar heads east, metaphorically, and tries a wine from China.
Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends, €10-€15
Drogheda, a town in county Louth, stretching across the border into neighbouring Meath, is becoming a bit of media darling. Featured recently on national television, it’s no longer just a town you bypass on the way to Dundalk but somewhere worth stopping. And if stop you do, then stop you must at Quintessential Wines on the Dublin Road. [...]
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Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends, €30 plus
Having met the maker, it was now time to give one of his wines a try.
Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends, Under €10
I’m a big fan of Mencia. What the hell is that? Well, it’s a grape and a relative newcomer to the world wine scene and you’ll find it, mostly, in a Spanish area called Bierzo. While it’s new to use, many of the wines available are from 50-100 year old vines, so it’s been around [...]
Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends
Grenache gets its very own day of celebration on the 24th of September.
