What a start of the New Year, We were delighted to receive a very touching accolade from John and Sally McKenna on New Year's Eve: 'Wine Person of the Year' in their Megabytes Yearly Awards: Wine person of the Year - Pascal Rossignol Ten years ago, when Pascal Rossignol first began to introduce natural wines, via his shop and wine company Le Caveau, people scoffed. No one’s scoffing now. Thanks to the patient advocacy of Mr Rossignol and his partner, Colm McCan, we are well on the way to creating a wine world where natural is normal, and where industrialised wines are seen as the over-chemicalised concoctions that they are. The Le Caveau wines are superb, and there is no better advocate for the cause than Pascal. lecaveau.ie http://www.guides.ie/megabites/wine-person-pub-and-drink-year   Then, on New Year's day, Tomas Clancy published his Sunday Business Post Wine Awards, in which we retained our 'Fine Wine Merchants Nationwide of the Year' as well as 'Burgundy Specialist of the Year' 'Meanwhile fending off the annual competition from powerhouse Greenacres in Wexford, the other regular winner of the national award is Pascal Rossignol of Le Caveau, now ably abetted by Colm McCan and the rest of Le Caveau Crew. Here the hugely strong base of French wines is now joined by the very best of the cutting edge natural and orange wine world. Le Caveau's influence as a wine shop and as an importer continues to be profoundly influential on the Irish Market and open-hearted wine consumers.' Tomas Clancy, Sunday Business Post Wine Awards

 

 

 

Happy New Year 2017 to all our Customers and Friends from a very happy crew at Le Caveau!

Delighted to be supplying the wines for the supper that will follow the screening of Jonathan Nossiter's movie 'Natural Resistance'! here are the details:  

Natural Resistance*

Irish Premiere *With an Italian inspired rustic supper paired with natural wines from the growers featured in the film

It’s about respect for everything – not only nature, but also workers and customers.

19:00 Fri 06 March, 2015 @ Ballymaloe-Grainstore  

We are delighted to announce the details of our forthcoming Portfolio tastings (Trade and Wine Press) The 2 tastings will take place in Dublin and Cork on 12th and 14th April respectively. We are thrilled to be bringing our 'show' to Cork for the first time this year, we are huge fans of the incredible diversity of the food scene there and we're delighted of the interest the Southern Counties are showing to our wines, We will showcase about 80 wines on both dates, focusing on organic, biodynamic and natural wines (April is Real Wine Month!) and we are thrilled that 11 growers will be present at the tastings: The estates represented will be: Chateau Turcaud (Bordeaux); Maison Ambroise (Burgundy); Bodegas Menade (Rueda); Wiston's Estate (UK Sparkling); Guy Allion (Loire); Cockagee Cider (Slane); Tour des Gendres (Bergerac); Beauregard-Mirouze (Corbieres); Clos de Caveau (Rhone); Taylor's & Fonseca Ports; Highbank Orchards Gin & Liqueur  

Le Caveau Artisan Wine Tasting

 Trade and Press Tuesday 12th April, 10.00 to 5.30

Drury Buildings

2nd Floor Drury Street Dublin 2 http://drurybuildings.com/

contact/enquiry: orders@lecaveau.ie

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Le Caveau Artisan Wine Tasting

Trade and Press

Thursday 14th April, 10.00 to 5.30

L’Atitude 51

1, Union Quay Cork http://www.latitude51.ie/

contact/enquiry: orders@lecaveau.ie

See you there!  

Happy New Year! What a start of the year! We are absolutely thrilled to have retained our 2 awards in Tomas Clancy's wine column in the Sunday Business Post published on January 3rd 2016: - Best Fine wine Merchants (Nationwide) 2015 (previously winner in 2008, 2012 and 2014) - Best Burgundy Specialist 2015 (previously winner in 2013 and 2014) Many thanks to Tomas for choosing us and congratulations to all winners and finalists! We also wish to thank the artisans behind the wines we import, who work sustainably and with minimum intervention in their wineries, our wonderful team and of course, our Customers for their support over the last 16 years! Here's to another brilliant new year, filled with exciting wines!        

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The Real Wine Month - May 5th to May 31st 2015

The second Real Wine Month will be taking place across Ireland between 5th and 31st May 2015 and we hope will build on the success of last year's promotion. Over 50 outlets participated last year and we hope even more will come on board this year! Focusing on highlighting and celebrating organic, biodynamic and natural wines, the promotion is open to restaurants, wine bars, cafes, hotels and independent retailers. Here at Le Caveau we are delighted to offer 10% on all our Organic, Biodynamic and of course Natural Wines! That's over 100 wines on offer!   Happy bargain hunting!  

We are hosting a booking signing of Breakfast in Burgundy by Raymond Blake on Saturday the 28^th of March. We also will be tasting two wines on the day Vincent Girardin Santenay 1er cru les Gravieres and Bachey-Legros Santenay Blanc. Call in to see us this coming Saturday!  

 

  On Friday March 6th, The Cork French Film Festival will be screening the Irish Premiere of Jonathan Nossiter's Natural Resistance at Ballymaloe House Grainstore, Shanagarry, Co.Cork. Natural Resistance is a movie/documentary about 4 Italian Natural winemakers. The screening will be followed by an Italian inspired rustic supper and 4 wines made by producers featured in the movie will be served to accompany Gillian Hegarty's (Ballymaloe House Head Chef) dishes. We are delighted to have been asked to supply the wines for this brilliant event. Furthermore, Doug Wregg of Les Caves de Pyrene, the largest importer and ambassador of Natural Wines in the UK will introduce both the movie and Naural wines in general. Tickets for the evening can be purchased here   We hope you can join us!  

Organic, Biodynamic and Natural wine presentation

Ballymaloe Cookery School, 25th February 2015

Any occasion to team up to with Colm McCan, Consultant Sommelier at Ballymaloe House and Wine presenter at Ballymaloe Cookery School is always very welcome, so it was a real pleasure to visit Shanagarry once again and introduce some 'hand-made' wines to the Cookery School 12 week certificate students. In front of a full class, the wines showed quite well and were well received.

The wines showed were:

Coste Piane Prosecco di Valdobbiadene ‘Naturale’

Valli Unite ‘Ciapé’ – Cortese – Colli Tortonesi DOC

Bodegas Menade, Rueda ‘Verdejo’

Cantina Tollo, Montepulciano d’Abruzzo ‘Biologico’

Gran Cerdo Tempranillo, GONZALO GONZALO GRIJALBA

Arianna Occhipinti, SP68 Rosso IGT Terre Siciliane

Many thanks to Darina, Colm and the team at Ballymaloe Cookery School for the opportunity to introduce these wines to the class, and indeed many thanks to the students for your attention and feedback, very best of luck with the exam next month!

Picture courtesy of Ketty of French Foodie in Dublin blog

 

Le Caveau Annual Portfolio Tasting   Tuesday, 10th February 2015 10 am - 5 pm THE EXCHEQUER ROOM FALLON & BYRNE EXCHEQUER STREET DUBLIN 2 There has been a great response from our growers and we look forward to welcoming the following:   Paola Oberto (Ciabot Berton, La Morra, Barolo) Caroline Pobitzer (Az. Ag. Pian dell’Orino, Montalcino) Alessandra (Az. Coop. Valli Unite) Alejandra Sanz (Bodegas Menade, Rueda) Dermot Sugrue (Wiston Estate, Surrey) Yves Cuilleron (Cave Yves Cuilleron, Chavannay, Northern Rhône) Stéphane le May (Chateau Turcaud, La Sauve-Majeure, Bordeaux) Catherine Bertrand (Chateau Carteau Cote Daugay, St-Emilion) Ludivine Ambroise (Maison Ambroise, Premeaux-Prissey, Nuits Saint Georges) Frédéric Buisson (Domaine H&G Buisson, St. Romain) Laure Meffre (Domaine le Clos du Caveau, Vacqueyras) Thibaut Chaume (Domaine Chaume-Arnaud, Vinsobres) Nicolas and Karine Mirouze (Beauregard-Mirouze, Bizanet, Narbonne) Félix Meyer (Domaine Meyer-Fonné, Katzenthal, Alsace) Many of the growers are in Dublin on Monday 9th as well as Tuesday 10th, so if you would like to arrange a meeting with any of them, do let us know and we will facilitate. We hope you can make it on the day and if you need any further information, please contact us at orders@lecaveau.ie

 

2015 is kicking off on a high note at Le Caveau as we have won 2 awards at this year's Sunday Business Post wine awards: 'Fine Wine Merchants Nationwide of the Year' for the third time after 2008 and 2012 'Burgundy Specialist of the Year' (a tiltle very close to our hearts) for the second year running Congratulations to all winners and runners-up and a massive thanks to Tomas Clancy, wine correspondent at the Sunday Business Post, to all our customers for their continued support, to the growers who make such wonderful wines and to our brilliant team! Tomas Clancy, Sunday Business Post  

      December 2014 (shop) special opening times: Monday 8th December                10.30 to 5.30pm   Monday 15th December               10.30 to 6.30 pm   Tuesday 16th December               10.30 to 6.30 pm   Wednesday 17th December        10.30 to 6.30 pm   Thursday 18th December             10.30 to 7.30 pm   Friday 19th December                   10.30 to 7.30 pm   Saturday 20th December              10.30 to 6.30 pm   Sunday 21st December                 12.00 to 6.00 pm       Monday 22nd December              10.30 to 8.00 pm   Tuesday 23rd December               10.30 to 8.00 pm   Wednesday 24th December        10.30 to 4.30 pm   Christmas Day                                 Closed   Friday 26th December                   Closed   Saturday 27th December              Closed   Sunday 28th December                 Closed       Monday 29th December               Closed   Tuesday 30th January                    10.30 to 6.00 pm   Wednesday 31st January             10.30 to 4.30 pm       Le Caveau (shop) will close for annual holidays on New Year’s Day and will re-open on Tuesday 13th January 2015   Deliveries (shop and website) Last order for guaranteed delivery for Christmas is Sunday 21st December at 8.00pm - We will accept orders after this time but delivery may only be made from January 2nd 2015  - Normal delivery service will then resume on January 2nd 2015   Wholesale Customers Dublin: Last orders for delivery before Christmas: 23rd December before 1.00 pm Last orders for delivery before New Year's Eve: December 29th before 11.00 am   Wholesale Customers Country: Last orders for delivery before Christmas/New Year's eve : 22nd December before 10.00 am   Normal service to wholesale customers (office and deliveries) will resume on January 5th 2015   We wish all our customers and visitors a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2015  

Last Tuesday we held our second Trade and Press tasting of 2014 in Fallon and Byrne, where we showcased the new Burgundies sourced during our last buying trip (read here). We also showed the myriad of new wines that have been added to our list since February, wines we sourced/discovered in Barcelona wine show, Vinisud Montpellier and the Real wine fair in London. In all, 50 wines were tasted. A very good turn-out from leading restaurants, wine bars, specialist wine shops and wine writers combined with the wines showing particularly well on the day contributed to a very successful event. The line-up of new Burgundies was well received - Burgundy is a place where big and famous names reign supreme, and prices are quite high, so it was always going to be a nail-biting moment to unveil such a large selection of wines coming from relatively new, up and coming producers. The other regions and Countries did well too, Bodegas Menade was particularly well noted and so was Wiston Estate in Southern England and their stunning sparklings. Ville-Rouge in Crozes-Hermitage, Roches-Neuves in Saumur, Beauregard-Mirouze in Corbieres generated very positive feedback while the 2 'orange wines' from La Stoppa and Denavolo divided the tasters the most. Massive thanks to everyone who came, to Fallon and Byrne for their hospitality and sensational venue, and of course to Le Caveau sales team (pictured below)

Claire O'Boyle-Gallagher - Gary Byrne - Pascal Rossignol - Colm McCan