Whether your goal is to treat yourself, woo a partner or surprise your guests, making a good cocktail at home is a skill worth mastering, and having the right implements to begin with is...
Two of my favourite veg are teamed together in this soup recipe, and both are great for your skin. Serves 6 Ingredients: – 4 carrots, cut into quarters – 4 sprigs of fresh thyme, leaves only – Sea...
If there is a spirit that evokes summer it’s rum. Versatile, mellow and with a wide appeal, it’s the darling of bartenders and often, the tipple of choice during holidays, festivals and our enjoyment of...
The pleasure of slowly sipping whiskey by the fire melts away as the weather gets warmer. As spritzers and other fruity or floral concoctions take over to satisfy our thirst for something more refreshing,...
There are several things you must never do to red wine: waste it and mix it with milk come to mind, but putting it in the fridge is definitively not on the list. Of...
As the weather gets warmer, we move away from rich and creamy drinks and embrace the fruity, the light and the refreshing. Spritzers of all colours (but let’s be honest, often Aperol-red) grace...
There is a warm place in Irish hearts for Chile and vice versa. Ireland’s connection was forged when Bernardo O’Higgins liberated Chile from Imperial Spain in the early 1800s. Chile is a country of...
Anyone now entering the Drury Buildings parking will be greeted by the words “I love you so much” written in pink over a black background. The phrase is both the tagline of the recently...
There are certain words that a language has that just don’t have an exact translation. Sprezzatura, for example, is not only the name of a restaurant which features Italian cuisine with Irish ingredients in...
Wine bars are having a moment in Dublin and you know it’s more than just a phase when new doors begin to open outside the city centre. Last December, Clanbrassil Street welcomed The Wine...
Sharing a bottle of wine together? Choosing something that matches your tastes and serves as an ice-breaker can help get the evening started on the right foot. While deciding based on the food is...
Is time to ask ouselves what are the wine trends in line to shape our drinking in 2020? Crystal balls and telescopes out! Well actually, market reports, observation, research and paying attention to what industry insiders...
As Generation Sensible comes of age, their preferences drive innovation and set trends. Being a drinker or an absteiner are seen, as many other concepts, no longer as black and white binaries and, in the...
Few things are more glamourised than Champagne… We can hardly concieve James Bond seducing with a bottle of English sparkling wine, picture socialite Holly Golightly having a glass of Prosecco before breakfast at Tiffany’s or...
Allta describes itself on its site as “a wine bar with food” but despite the simple and to-the-point tag line, it’s easy to see a lot of thought has gone behind it. In fact,...
In the wine world, the twenty-tens have been the decade of more: more wine regions in our shelves, more styles in the mainstream, more information and data about our habits and choices and, more interaction...
Irish whiskey remains a rising star and, as its popularity and prestige keeps growing, the variety of expressions and the innovation within the industry expand as well. This Christmas, you’ll have an unprecedented range of...
Everything grows richer during the winter. Fabrics are thicker and our clothes more layered, desserts are creamier and more decadent and meals become heartier and more filling. Our wines are not the exception, and even...
Last month, a headline-grabbing debate divided movie lovers. It all began when Martin Scorsese said in an interview that Marvel movies were not cinema but “theme parks” and shortly after, many industry heavyweights took sides....
Saint-Emilion’s Château la Gaffelière and Celtic Whiskey Shop & Wines on the Green are teaming up with Marco Pierre White Courtyard Bar & Grill, Donnybrook to delight wine lovers with a fabulous wine dinner this...