Sour Grapes the Irish wine blog. Wine in Ireland.

Points and wines. Hmmmm.

Inside, irrefutable proof of the French paradox. Put your money where your mouth is.

Ireland’s first Master of Wine runs The Cellarmaster in Sandyford. His “red dot sale” runs for the month of August and inside are my top three picks.

“French wines by Hachette” is a new iPhone application focusing on french wines.

What does Languedoc terroir taste like? See inside for Le Video.

Does the shape of the wine glass impact on your enjoyment of wine? Riedel think so and are presenting a unique tasting on that very topic in Dublin on 17th September. Clink.

Matt Nugent’s 5-in-5 wine course starting at the end of August.

A wine from near Lisbon, called Pink Elephant. Good with Spicey Food? Let’s have ye.

A bit of a change with “Posh beer” coming to sourgrapes.ie. First up, it’s “Schlenkerla Helles” lager. This lager is brewed from Bavarian hops from the area around the city of Nürnberg.