Thank you to everyone who attended our Portfolio tasting.
We are very grateful to our producers and customers who made their way to Dublin. We hope you all enjoyed the day and our wines as much as we did.
We are very grateful to our producers and customers who made their way to Dublin. We hope you all enjoyed the day and our wines as much as we did.
At a lunch for celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships, arguably the toughest trade competition dedicated to quality sparkling wines, Gramona Imperial 2017 Magnum was awarded, not one but three awards: Best Corpinnat, Best Sparkling Wine from Spain and Best Biodynamic Sparkling Wine in the World. 2017 is the … Read More
Spanish wine specialist, ex-sommelier at El Bulli and international wine judge, Ferran Centelles recently wrote an article on Salnés producers and their wines on jancisrobinson.com. He says he “had a chance to visit with Rodrigo Méndez of Forjas del Salnés. Méndez, working with Raúl Pérez, was instrumental in protecting the DO’s red wines, releasing the … Read More
“I tasted the wines of Herbert Zillinger three times over the last year or so. On each occasion I have been blown away by them”, writes John Wilson. He also describes the wines as being “anything but everyday.” We have stocks of: Neuland Grüner Veltliner 2021 which John describes as having “layers of textured ripe … Read More
June 2023 saw a successful visit from Michael Moosbrugger of Schloss Gobelsburg to Dublin which included a masterclass, a day in the trade and an Austrian dinner in Greenman Wines. It was clear that there is an insatiable thirst for Austrian wine, in both on and off trade. So we made the, not so difficult, … Read More
Aoife Carrigy featured Gramona III Lustros Brut Nature Corpinnat 2013 & Llopart Reserva Brut Corpinnat 2019 as Wine of the week in a feature on “Spain’s bubbly new breed of sparkling wines.” Aoife explains that “Corpinnat producers are commited to historic indigenous grape varities (Macabeo, Parellada, Xarello Rosada, but also Garnacha, Monastrell, Malvasia and Sumoll), … Read More
Leslie Williams featured Domaene Gobelsburg Kamptal Gruner Veltliner 2021, Weingut Prieler Pinot Blanc, Ried Seeberg 2021 & Schloss Gobelsburg Zobing Riesling 2021 in a recent feature on the best Austrian Wine.
John Wilson featured Geil Pinot Noir 2021 & Dautel Spatburgunder Sonnenberg 1G 2018 in The Irish Times as part of a series on German Wines which he describes as “the best kept secret in the Wine world.”
Domaine Rijckaert produce wines of exceptional quality from small plots of vines in the Jura and Burgundy. Florent Rouve, who runs the estate today, studied forestry and agricultural engineering before going on to study oenology in Dijon. His Burgundian wines are from 4 hectares of land in the Maconnais, and his Jura wines are situated … Read More
“Germany has been on a roll for several decades now, producing superb wines…” Amongst them, according to John Wilson is Dautel’s Bonningheim Riesling Trocken 2021 which he describes as having “stimulating, intense mouth-watering stone fruits with a lively seam of mineral acidity and a lengthy finish. Wonderful wine.” We may be a little biased here … Read More
Mallorca is undergoing a defiant and welcome wine revolution. As the island has become synonymous with great gastronomy wine production has followed suit, with a small handful of winemakers at the helm, making wines they are proud to call Majorcan. Fighting the good fight, sixth generation winemaker, Tomeau Llabrés opened the doors of his garagiste … Read More
We showed 12 Austrian wines on Wednesday morning, to complement our Regional Discovery Masterclass held in the afternoon. We divided the wines into the following themes: The Wines of Herbert Zillinger, Aromatic Expressions, International Varieties and Indigenous Blends. Below are a few bottle shots for reference.