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.
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A Saperavi from Mukuzani in Kahketi. That’s a red from Georgia and a rather good one too.
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If sourgrapes.ie can’t make it to Palmela, Palmela comes to sourgrapes.ie, courtesy of Wine Alliance in Cork.
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Bubble Brothers finds a new voice and starts bloggeur outreach program.
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Posted on January 6th, 2012 2 Comments
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Lar heads east, metaphorically, and tries a wine from China.
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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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Having met the maker, it was now time to give one of his wines a try.
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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 [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2011 1 Comment
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Grenache gets its very own day of celebration on the 24th of September.
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