My Grape Escape

The rain lashed down harder but we didn’t care. Why? Because we’d found a wine bar in the trenches of Glastonbury – a little patch of heaven in the mud and chaos of Worthy Farm. As the tunes pumped out. grown men hugged and danced to the tune of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (‘come [...]

I reflect on a year’s wine blogging and some important lessons learned about myself and others. Tuesday marked my one-year anniversary as a wine blogger, and what a decent year it has been! Some highlights included getting a snippet in Ireland’s Sunday Tribune, representing my country at the 2010 European Wine Bloggers Conference, celebrating the [...]

The second and final installment of Christmas Day with the stars of the Irish wine scene. Read on to find out more about the next global iconic wine, some top wine nerdiness, and how one particular reputable blogger is worryingly about to ruin Christmas for his family. Can someone stop him before it’s too late? . Paul [...]

I asked the “who’s-who” of the Irish wine scene for their choice of tipple this Christmas Day. The one day of the year when shops are shut, smart-phones are switched off, Twitter is banned; all is calm in the wine blogosphere. While us wine nerds can smugly sip on our perfect bottle choice for the [...]

One day recently Frank FitzGerald of Dalkey, Co Dublin (my dad) returned home from work to find his beloved Agave plant in a distressed state. Having spent the previous couple of months magnificently climbing towards the sky the plant had decidedly taken a turn sideways and was beginning to keel over. Having waited over 25 years for the [...]

I returned home to Dalkey this weekend to study for my Advanced WSET wine exam on Monday. My parents were away for the weekend so I would be guaranteed some peace and quiet. However I was greeted by an enormous thing that had suddenly shot up from that ugly plant that had always been in [...]