Say Goodbye Dry January and Hello to Sweet February
Dry January is finally over and I hope we are all ready for Sweet February. As we all know there is always a wine for every occasion. However, sweet wines are often overlooked even...
Tagged: Gewürztraminer
Wine Wednesday pick from O’Briens: Lingenfelder Hare Label Gewürztraminer 2013
Once upon a time there was a beautiful vineyard in a small village named Grosskarlbach, in the northeast of the Pfalz region in Germany. There, on a sunny and fertile land where cherries, peaches and...
Wines of Alsace, Be Enchanted by their Aromatic Spell
Going through postcards from Alsace, you’ll realise how they evoke both French and German aesthetics; a superficial exercise that demonstrates a deep link created by a history of -not always peaceful- exchanges with both Estates and that...
An Insight into one of New Zealand’s best Wineries
The other week I got a call to say that Fleur McCree from Insight Wines was popping over to Dublin and would I like to meet her. Automatically I said yes, I’d heard such...