The Wine Blog

What is Beaujolais Nouveau?

What is Beaujolais Nouveau? Read on to find out about this "early" wine.

Black Friday Wine Deals: November 2022

Coming soon, the best Black Friday Wine Sale in Ireland.

Chris's Christmas Wines

It's the most wonderful wine of the year.

New Autumn Wine Arrivals

I've been meaning to add these wines to the website for a few months now, but the timing seemed to be absolutely perfect this week with slightly cooler temperatures and earlier evenings.

Maison Róisín Curley: Ballyhaunis Burgundy

I'm really thrilled to have the wines of Róisín Curley join us at The Allotment. By the time you're reading this, they'll probably be sold out, but we will be getting them back, no doubt, and weather-permitting, they'll be as good as ever.

Languedoc-Roussillon Rule-breakers, Aubert & Mathieu

Anthony Aubert and Jean-Charles Mathieu are two good pals who want to "break the rules of the vineyard". Well, now, it's all well and good to go breaking the rules in a vineyard, but only if you can show us that what you've done is worth the effort of breaking them.