Real Wine Month Ireland is back!
MAY IS REAL WINE MONTH
After 2 years of absence, May 2022 will mark the return of Real Wine Month, the time we celebrate Organic, Biodynamic and Natural wine.
Look out for restaurants, wine bars, bars, cafés and wine shops around the Country who promote these wines. There will be many events organised and we will publish the list below.
WHAT IS REAL WINE?
‘Real wine’ is a term embracing wines that are made organically, biodynamically and naturally. By no means precise nor prescriptive it serves chiefly to highlight growers who work with minimal mediation, ideally to obtain the purest articulation of terroir, fruit and vintage.
All great wine begins in the vineyard and is ultimately the result of sensitive farming. It is important that growers farm sustainably and with a sense of environmental responsibility, ensuring the natural balance and health of the vineyard. The juice from the resultant grapes should then ideally, be guided to the bottle with the fewest manipulations in order to create a vital and singular – rather than an homogenous – product. This sympathetic interpretation and transformation of nature’s gifts lies at the heart of what makes a wine “real.”
EVENTS
Check for price, tickets, info with the venues
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5th May: Jura Night
A unique opportunity to taste 'Unicorn wines' from Jura - Expect the rarest and finest: Kenjiro Kagami (Domaine des Miroirs), Overnoy-Houillon, Jean-Francois Ganevat, Domaine Saint-Pierre, Domaine Labet..
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9th May: Bojo & Hotdogs
Beaujolais from superstars Foillard, Métras etc.. & Hotdogs (with Gubbeen sausages!)
Table Wine, Dublin
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16th, 17th, 18th May: Vins de Copains Tastings
3 indie importers, specialising in Natural Wines join forces to pour 36 of their best, in an informal, fun and wine fair style!
Veraison - Le Caveau - Brian's Wines
16th May: Note Wine Bar, Dublin
17th May: L'Atitude 51, Cork
18th May: The Universal, Galway
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22nd, 23rd May: Real Wine Fair, London
The World's most amazing Natural wine fair returns to Tobacco Docks, London
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28th May: Natural Wine Masterclass
What is Natural Wine? What does it tastes like? How do you recognise it? Join this fun, interactive and educational Masterclass.
L'Atitude 51, Cork
Date TBA: Mentors of Natural Wine
Tasting the wines of Vignerons who have mentored/influenced the current wave of Natural wine producers.
Green Man Wines, Terenure, Dublin 6
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PARTICIPANTS IN IRELAND:
Co. Clare:
This is it, Ennistymon
Co. Cork
Ballymaloe House, Shanagarry
Bradley's, Cork
Crawford Gallery Café, Cork
The Blackpig, Kinsale
Da Mirco, Cork
Dunmore House, Clonakilty
Garden Shop at Ballymaloe Cookery School
Glass Curtain, Cork
Good Day Deli, Cork
Ichigo Ichie, Cork
L'Atitude 51, Cork
Levi's Bar, Ballydehob
Liss Ard Estate, Clonakilty
McCurtain Street Wine Cellar, Cork
Nash 19, Cork
Nell's Wine Bar, Cork
Nico's, Schull
O'Driscoll's, Douglas
Paradiso, Cork
Pilgrim's, Rosscarbery
Pop up Wine Shop at the Grainstores, Shanagarry
Sage, Midleton
Saint-Francis Provisions, Kinsale
Sonflour, Cork
Co. Donegal:
Bridge Bar and Restaurant, Ramelton
Dublin:
Baggot Street Wines, Dublin 2
Bastible, Dublin 2
Commons Room, Trinity College, Dublin 2
Etto, Dublin 2
Fallon and Byrne, Dublin 2
Fish Shop, Dublin 7
Frank’s, Dublin 2
Fumbally, Dublin 8
Grano, Dublin 8
Green Man Wine, Terenure
King Sitric, Howth
Lilith Wines, Dublin 7
Loose Canon, Dublin 2
Martin's Off Licence, Fairview, Dublin 3
Note Wine Bar, Dublin 2
Table Wine, Dublin 2
Two Pups Café, Dublin 8
Uno Mas, Dublin 2
Woodruff, Stepaside
Co: Galway:
Ard Bia, Galway
Inis Meain Restaurant, Inis Meain
Kai, Galway
The Lamplight, Clifden
Re_Galway, Salthill
Tartare, Galway
The Universal, Galway
Co. Kerry:
Watchhouse, Valentia Island
Sheen Falls Lodge, Kenmare
Co. Kilkenny:
Aran Bakery, Kilkenny
The Grapevine, Kilkenny
Le Caveau, Kilkenny
Co. Louth:
MacGuinness Wine Merchants, Dundalk
Co. Tipperary:
Dooks Fine Food, Fethard
Co. Waterford
Cass and Co, Dungarvan
World Wide Wines, Waterford
