Food Pairing:Pork and Poultry

• arugula
• asparagus
• Autumn Vegetables
• bacon
• barolo
• BBQ
• beef
• Beef and Lamb
• blue cheese
• bread
• brine
• canapés
• cheese
• Chicken
• christmas dessert
• christmas feast
• clarified butter
• cream
• cream cheese
• curry
• Dessert
• dessert wines
• feta
• fish
• food pairing
• fortified wine
• Fresh Greens
• Game
• ginger
• gingerbread
• grenache
• grilled
• gruyere
• Hard Cheese
• Hearty Roots
• herbs
• imen mcdonnell
• indian curry
• korean
• Light Fish and Shellfish
• marmalade
• mushroom
• onion
• orange
• orange wine
• paella
• Pasta and Pizza
• pecorino
• Pork
• Pork and Poultry
• port
• prawns
• Rich Fish
• Roast Vegetables
• rye crisps
• salad
• Salads
• Salmon Mousse
• seafood
• smoked salmon
• Soft Cheese
• Spicy Food
• spicy foods
• stuffing
• sushi
• Tapas
• tart
• turkey
• umami
• ummera
• vegan
• vegetables
• vegetarian
• wine pairing

Food Pairing

by Traci Gates | November 26, 2018

Christmas Goose Wine Pairing

Christmas Goose Wine Pairing In this year’s Wines Direct Christmas Brochure, top chefs and influencers in the Irish food scene shared their much-loved Christmas dishes with you, paired with some of our favourite festive wines. This week we reveal their delectable recipes. Whether you are the head chef or kitchen porter at home, we hope you […]

Food Pairing

by Laura Daly | June 8, 2018

Rosé Wine Food Pairing

Rosé Wine & Roast Chicken Discover Jette Virdi’s Roast Chicken paired with a Rosé wine from Domaine Bergerie de L’Hortus. Walking into a kitchen where a chicken has slowly been roasting away in the oven, is probably the closest to heaven we have on earth. Everyone has their own way of roasting the chicken, and […]

Travelogues, Winemakers

by Sam Logan | April 24, 2018

The Best of Cava Wine

Cava Wine at Cellar Carles Andreu Cava, the sparkling Spanish wine that rivals Champagne, is a modern name for a style of wine that has been produced in Spain for centuries. When we visited our Cava producer, he explained the history of Cava and what makes his Cava Wine so special. It was still morning […]

Travelogues, Uncategorized, Winemakers

by Sam Logan | April 10, 2018

Gifts for Wine Lovers

Gifts for Wine Lovers: Wine Explorers Club So, you know someone who loves wine, and you want to get them a present they’ll love. First of all, don’t get them decanters, wine racks, fancy stoppers, or any other wine gadgets. Chances are they’ve already got all the equipment they need to enjoy wine (i.e., glasses […]

Food Pairing, The Keogh Cellar

by Sam Logan | December 15, 2017

Wines for Twixmas Feasting

An annual tradition that never fails to delight me is the glut of festive leftovers in the week following Christmas day. If you’re anything like me, you’ll appreciate the laziness all this extra food facilitates just as much as you enjoy the food itself.

Uncategorized

by Sam Logan | December 13, 2017

Christmases Around France

From the Loire to Alsace, we visit two unique and fascinating French winemakers to see how they celebrate Christmas. I'm of to bake some bredele!

The Keogh Cellar, Uncategorized, Winemakers

by Sam Logan | December 13, 2017

Christmas in Bordeaux

Today we make the last visit to the vines before Christmas. We’re stopping by Bordeaux to find out how our favourite Bordelais winemakers celebrate Christmas. There’s oysters, apple pie and a lovely tradition with the company that makes the barrels Chateau Hautes Segottes is aged in.   Chateau Thieuley In the Courselle ‘s family, we […]

The Keogh Cellar, Winemakers

by Sam Logan | December 13, 2017

Christmas in Burgundy: Domaine De La Bongran & Domaine Naudin Ferrand

We catch up with two of our winemakers from Burgundy to hear what the Christmas festivities are like in one of the heartlands of French winemaking. As you might expect, all the food the winemakers mention is tailormade for Burgundy wines. Various molluscs feature prominently on both Christmas menus. While oysters are popular at home in Ireland, […]

The Keogh Cellar, Winemakers

by Sam Logan | December 11, 2017

An Iberian Christmas

Our Portuguese winemakers Quinta do Crasto and Bodegas Fillaboa tell us how they’ll be spending Christmas this year: plenty of sweet treats, seafood and, of course, fantastic wine.   Quinta do Crasto “Christmas traditions in Portugal and Douro are above all about family! It is common to celebrate around the table, on the 24th with Bacalhau […]

The Keogh Cellar, Uncategorized, Winemakers

by Sam Logan | November 28, 2017

A Very Langa Christmas

Cesar Langa produces fantastic wines to Organic standards under the Langa and Senorio de Ayud labels. We Caught up with Cesar to find out what Christmas means to him Bodegas Langa Christmas in Spain gets off to a rather peculiar and unofficial start on Dec. 22nd when children from San Ildefonso School can be heard […]

The Keogh Cellar, Uncategorized, Winemakers

by Sam Logan | November 28, 2017

Christmases Around Spain

We take a whistlestop tour to hear how Christmas traditions differ around Spain. There’s the usual Jamón Iberico, cheese, and seafood, along with some southern Christmas Biscuits from Olivares – And plenty of wine!   Bodegas Jimenez Landi “We assemble a Nativity Set in our family home, and we get together in front of it […]

The Keogh Cellar

by Sam Logan | November 10, 2017

Wines For Christmas Dinner

Finding wine to match Christmas dinner is a high stakes endeavour. If not necessarily contempt, familiarity certainly breeds neglect; you might assume the classic turkey, sprouts and roasties will taste just as good with any old wine. Not so, my friend. I’m not saying you need to blow all your budget on bougie bottles, but […]