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Lifestyle: Wine
All entries for Wine
Pick your wines for this festive season
Giovanni Morelli | 17 December 2009
Giovanni Morelli has some tips on wines to drink during the Christmas holidays, and a few wine books you might like to send him as gifts... Read more
Austrian wines are not for every day — but worth a try
Giovanni Morelli | 27 November 2009
Giovanni Morelli bemoans the move to fast food in France, but reports on some fine wines from Austria that are worthy of experimentation... Read more
Bordeaux: wine and a Luas that connects
Giovanni Morelli | 23 October 2009
Giovanni Morelli visited châteaux in Bordeaux, read about buried cheese, and discovered that the Luas lines in France connect... Read more
Pop your cork over wine peeves
Giovanni Morelli | 25 September 2009
Giovanni Morelli voices his wine-related annoyances and looks at some of the best red and white wines coming out of Spain at the moment... Read more
Life from the bottom of the barrel
Giovanni Morelli | 19 June 2009
Giovanni Morelli writes that Diogenes, who spent his days living in a barrel, reminds him of a novel scheme where customers can buy barrels of their own wine ‘What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others’... Read more
Wines for recessionary times
Giovanni Morelli | 23 March 2009
St Thomas Aquinas wrote that 'sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine'. In these turbulent times, Giovanni Morelli agrees. In this column, I have always tried to pick wines that are interesting and... Read more
Don't be fooled by fancy fakes in '09
Giovanni Morelli | 10 February 2009
Giovanni Morelli writes that even experts can be fooled when it comes to recognising true quality, and this applies to wine as much as other areas Now that the festivities are over and all the New Year’s resolutions have been... Read more
Fine wines for the festive feast
Giovanni Morelli | 15 December 2008
Giovanni Morelli recommends a selection of fine wines to match what is undoubtedly the biggest and most important meal of the year — the gut-busting feast that we all enjoy on Christmas Day. The best kind of wine is that... Read more
Argentina inproves, Oz loses shine
Giovanni Morelli | 21 November 2008
Giovanni Morelli writes that sales of Argentinean wines are growing, as the quality of that country's wines has greatly improved over the last decade. Probably the most hated word in the English language at present is ‘regulator’. In this instance,... Read more
A 'bottle' by any other name...
Giovanni Morelli | 03 October 2008
Giovanni Morelli writes that we may need to reconsider our views on 'bottling' wine in cardboard containers and also looks at reasons why Prosecco has grown in popularity in recent years. I suppose we are all creatures of habit, to... Read more
Supertuscans sit happily in the sun
12 September 2008
Giovanni Morelli talked to wine-makers in Italy this summer and sent us this from his Italian idyll in August. Sitting on the terrace watching a fat lizard lazily sunning himself, I know that if I make the slightest move, he... Read more
Champagne expanding as 'French Paradox' is explored
Giovanni Morelli | 04 July 2008
Giovanni Morelli gives a few tips on the best bargains in wine for summer and discusses the ongoing study of resveratrol for potential medical uses. I’m not sure if the final ‘Contract’ has been signed, but for those who have... Read more
Mondavi — and other wine notes
Giovanni Morelli | 20 June 2008
Giovanni Morelli recalls the famous blind-tasting of 1976 when Californian wines came into their own. Robert Mondavi, one of the great icons of modern wine making died on May 16, at the ripe old age of 94. Mondavi’s family emigrated... Read more
Bring a taste of sunshine to your summer this year
Giovanni Morelli | 24 May 2008
Giovanni Morelli writes about the importance of mood, food and context in our appreciation of wine and alerts us to some good-value bottles for summer that are on offer at the moment. It’s nice to know that the wine correspondent... Read more
Wine-tasting skills are nothing to be sniffed at
Giovanni Morelli | 28 April 2008
Giovanni Morelli on the importance of having a keen nose when tasting wine and why the world's best wine tasters insure their noses for outrageous sums of money It is interesting to speculate on what makes one have an opinion... Read more
Time to savour Sauvignon Blanc
Giovanni Morelli | 19 March 2008
Giovanni Morelli takes a look at trials measuring the health benefits of wine and recommends some good-value Sauvignon Blancs to whet your whistle Those of us who were taught history before revisionism will remember the ‘Flight of the Earls’, when... Read more
A wine fit for kings is also good for patients
20 February 2008
Giovanni Morelli takes a look at the history of wine for medicinal purposes, and lists some value-for-money bottles to make the medicine go down easier My favourite lunch place in Florence is Cantinetta Antinori. It is in the Palazzo Antinori,... Read more
A wine fit for kings is also good for patients
20 February 2008
Giovanni Morelli takes a look at the history of wine for medicinal purposes, and lists some value-for-money bottles to make the medicine go down easier My favourite lunch place in Florence is Cantinetta Antinori. It is in the Palazzo Antinori,... Read more
Where it’s all in the nose notes
Giovanni Morelli | 18 January 2008
By the time you read this, you will hopefully have recovered from the Christmas and New Year’s break, back ‘in the saddle’ again. I hope that you have all eaten and drunk sensibly and have not had too much recourse... Read more
Water to wine: Venice and its neighbouring vineyards
Giovanni Morelli | 07 December 2007
Dante’s 14th Century Divine Comedy, given the title ‘Divine’ by Giovanni Boccaccio, describes many of the tortures that will be inflicted on us doctors (I’m excluding surgeons here) once we die and descend to Hell. I have been there. Anybody... Read more
Wines for the festive season
Giovanni | 07 December 2007
“Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.” – Samuel Johnson. Now that the season of Christmas is approaching, we should remember Samuel Johnson’s words and try to combine... Read more
The taste of a Tuscan summer
Giovanni Morelli | 09 November 2007
There is no doubt that we all attribute a different level of credence to what we read, depending on its provenance. For example, when we read about wine consumption contributing to a healthy life, it can bring out the sceptic... Read more
The perfect grape for making wine
Giovanni Morelli | 21 September 2007
By the time you read this summer holidays will be but a distant dream. I hope you managed to find the sun and some interesting wines. Consumption of wine in Ireland, as we all know, has increased dramatically over the... Read more
Escape from grey skies of Ireland to sunny Tuscany
Giovanni Morelli | 20 July 2007
No matter how insensitive you are to the climate nobody could escape a feeling of depression after the relentless rain and grey skies of June in Ireland. I don’t know if the Romans were the first to recognise the pleasure... Read more
Why a few glasses of wine can be good for your health
Giovanni Morelli | 22 June 2007
We have spoken quite a lot over the years about the ‘French Paradox’, that is people who consume a diet relatively high in fat and still have a low incidence of heart disease. There are many explanations for the ‘Paradox’... Read more
Botrytisation method of making sweet wines is unique to Hungary
Giovanni Morelli | 25 May 2007
Ireland enjoyed three fantastically warm weeks in April but so far May has been inclement. Let’s hope the warm weather returns because no matter what people say everything tastes better if cooked and eaten outdoors. What do you know about... Read more
Snow in winter may be tough for humans, but it's excellent for vines
Giovanni Morelli | 27 April 2007
All wine consumers are faced with this question sooner or later. What makes a good vintage? Are good vintages found in all wine-growing areas in the same year? How can one remember the good years? I suppose the last question... Read more
Little old ladies at weddings gave sherry a bad name
Giovanni Morelli | 23 March 2007
If you read the Irish Times daily, and now I rarely do, you could be forgiven for thinking that the whole country had been taken over by a wave of crime. You are probably familiar with the commoner forms of... Read more
February is for tasting good wine and heralding spring
Giovanni Morelli | 23 February 2007
In spite of contemplation over many years I cannot really see any justification for the month of February. After all the excitement of Christmas and the revelries of the New Year we become locked into dark, wet and windy days,... Read more
Wine easily wins out over broccoli
Giovanni Morelli | 26 January 2007
"The Chianti, Pomina and Verdea are good wines, the latter the least so, but best of all is the Montepulciano. I have seen no wine please more, insomuch that I must not be without it hereafter.” Thus opined Thomas Jefferson... Read more
The fall of France: from best wines to burgers and coke
Giovanni Morelli | 15 December 2006
I don’t know the contents of the late Charles J Haughey’s wine cellar but I believe they were impressive. But however extensive his cellar was, I’m sure it could not compete with the cellars stocked by Jacques Chirac when he... Read more