Matthew Nugent

BEWARE, we are just a couple of weeks away from the official end of summer, on August 31. What summer, I hear you say. Totally agree with that sentiment.

ON MONDAY, all of the major retail food and drinks chains will be in autumn wine sales mode. O’Briens Wine, SuperValu, Lidl and Dunnes Stores sales are already in full swing and will be joined by A…

WE start today with a confession: In over two decades writing about the joys of wine, I have NEVER written about Barolo, Italy’s most prized and expensive red, until now. Indeed, the country was a …

THIS past week, the busiest by far this year, I tasted almost 350 wines from all over the world – and never left the city. Wines from the Americas, Australia, Africa and Europe, costing less …

THERE is no denying the fact that a little nation like Ireland has a noticeably big appetite for Spanish wine, and food. Indeed, international sales shows we are the fourth biggest consumers of Alb…

AFTER weeks of preparation, a quartet of talented wine tasters flew out to Bordeaux earlier this week to fly the flag for Ireland at the World Tasting Championship this weekend. Teams from some 50 …

THE Fab Four who represented Ireland at the 12th edition of the World Tasting Championship in Bordeaux last weekend returned home proud of their performance after their first appearance in the comp…

WHEN Lidl and Aldi entered the Irish market almost 25 years ago, they were seen as interlopers by many, disturbing the comfortable status quo enjoyed by other Irish supermarket outlets. But now the…

THE first week of November signals the Irish Sun’s annual review of this year’s wine books – just in time to decide which ones to purchase for Christmas. Our round up includes a new offering …

AT this time of the year many winemakers generally take the opportunity to travel and meet their importers in far-off fields. In the northern hemisphere the harvest is in, and vinification has begu…