Sour Grapes the Irish wine blog

The second edition of the Irish Twitter Blind Wine Tasting is happening on Jan. 31st. Guess the wine, brag to all your fellow twitterers, twits, friends or followers (whatever it is the kidz are calling it these days.)

Read more on #twebt – Twitter Blind Wine Tasting 31st January...

3 Rieslings from Rheingau producer, Carl Ehrhard and available from Karwig Wines in Cork.

Read more on Three Rheingau Rieslings from Carl Ehrhard: Video Tasting...

The ubiquitous Faustino brand has a couple of Gran Reserva choices which would perfectly match the Christmas din-dins.

Read more on Wine for Christmas: Two vintages of Faustino I Gran Reserva...

Great value Pink Sparkler from Australia. Imaginatively, they’ve called it “Pink”.

Read more on Tickled Pink...

The Eternum Viti, a red from the Toro region (near enough to Ribera del Duero). Old vines The Eternum Viti is made from vines with an average age of over 50 years (the older, the less grapes are produced, the more concentrated the flavours). Tinta de Toro: It’s Tempranillo, Jim, but not as we know it [...]

Read more on Wine of the week: Eternum Viti 2007, Toro (Bodegas Albanico)...

Lewd, crude, improper? Or a classic french design from 1895 which is driving the Alabammas ’round the bend?

Read more on Video tasting: Cycles Gladiator Pinot Noir – Banned in Alabama!...

Tasting of the older brother of the recent Miss Harry, the Ned & Henry’s Barossa Shiraz from Hewiston. Bloody nice stuff, too.

Read more on Video tasting: Hewitson Ned & Henry’s Shiraz 2005, Barossa Valley...

Delicious juice from Australia’s Barossa Valley.

Read more on Hewitson Miss Harry 2005...

Read more on Château Lezongars L’Enclos de Château Lezongars (Premières Côtes de Bordeaux) 2002...

Video tasting of last week’s Fiore di Campo from Lis Neris in Italy’s Friuli region.

Read more on Fiore di Campo 2006, Lis Neris, Friuli (Video Tasting)...