Press Recommended Wines

We scour the pages each week for wine reviews and any we find end up here. We've grouped the reviews by publication so if you have a favourite wine journalist you can jump straight to their reviews by using the filters to the left below.

Top 3 We Recommend

Protocolo Tinto
Price €8.45
March Wine Offers = €7.95
Rasteau Tradition
Price €10.89
March Wine Offers = Buy 2 for €10.00 each

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Astrolabe Sauvignon Blanc

The World's Best Sauvignon Blanc as chosen by the International Wine & Spirits Competition 2008, intense and full-flavoured, packed with delicious ripe warmer fruits this has, for several years been New Zealand's best!

Price €15.95

Sunday Business Post

"...In many ways ways this ultra crisp, clean nettle and tropical fruit-soaked offering is the true sucessor to Cloudy Bay, as Cloudy Bay itself becomes more refined and restrained. This is old-school New World sauvignon, and almost begs for a cruncy crab starter or lemon sole."
Tomás Clancy - 08 November 2009


Protocolo Tinto

Selected by Wine Spectator as a “Top Value wine” this is consistently our top selling wine that massively over delivers in the level of quality it offers for the money.

Price €8.45
March Wine Offers = €7.95

Wine Spectator

"2007:This polished, medium-bodied red offers smooth cherry, licorice and chocolate flavors, with just enough acidity to keep it lively. Floral and smoky notes linger. Tempranillo. Drink now through 2011."


Torbreck GSM

The latest vintage of Torbreck’s knockout is bursting with ripe crushed berry fruit. With a silken texture and a long finish of pure fruit and a veil of oak this is probably the best GSM they Torbreck have made.

Price €19.45
March Wine Offers = €12.95

Sunday Business Post

"This is a fine example of what Australia can do best: offer affordable, quality wine that is ripe and rich and which - if it was French - would command a €50 price tag. If this powerful combination of ultra-luscious, dark, over-ripe plum jam tastes, tar and liquorice notes and searing spice and heat were from the southern Rhône or Châteauneuf-du-Pape, it would be critically feted."
Vintage 2005: Tomás Clancy - 01 May 2009


Chanson Fleurie

This has become one of the best Fleuries on the market, consistently in top form with brilliant juicy red-berried fruit and the mouthwatering vibrancy that defines good Cru Beaujolais.

Price €16.45

Irish Independent

"Full-flavoured, but with a light to medium-body, all the fruity, floral scents that you expect from a Fleurie. Regarded as the most feminine of the Beaujolais cru. "
Katherine Donnelly - July 2008


Karu Merlot

Soft, fruity and full-flavoured easy drinking Merlot that over delivers in quality this is incredible value for money considering this is a single estate wine from one of Chile's most dynamic producers

Price €7.25
March Wine Offers = €6.45

The Irish Times

"At an O’Briens tasting a few weeks back, I was very impressed with their range of inexpensive wines, and the reds in particular... The Karu has soft ripe easy plummy fruits, and a rounded finish."
John Wilson - 21 November 2009


Rasteau Tradition

The tradition always impresses in blind tastings with tasters invariably pricing it much higher than its lowly Ç10.99. A fitting tribute to the stellar quality of the Cave de Rasteau winemakers.

Price €10.89
March Wine Offers = Buy 2 for €10.00 each

Irish Independent

"A blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre, the Rasteau Ortas Tradition is a big, chunky wine with masses of dark, dense fruit, and robust but approachable tannins. Try it with a steak or a good meaty stew. "
Katherine Donnelly - 12 January 2008


Whitehaven Sauvignon Blanc

Whitehaven’s best vintage to date and the first to gain an “Outstanding” rating (90 Points Wine Enthusiast) aswell as being a “Best Value” buy from Wine Spectator and Wine of the week in the Irish times. No other New Ze ...

Price €13.45
March Wine Offers = €9.95

The Irish Times

"...this is one of the best value Marlborough Sauvignons, with vivid fresh aromas and fruit, cut through with classic Marlborough lemon and lime. "
John Wilson - 25 April 2009


Torbreck Woodcutter's Shiraz

Consistently rated "Outstanding" by uber wine critic Robert Parker the Woodcutter's Shiraz is a very classy Barossa Shiraz . Made from some of Torbreck' younger vine fruit it is designed to be drunk when young and exuber ...

Price €17.95
March Wine Offers = €15.95

Robert Parker

"Deep garnet to purple colour. Invigorating nose of freshly crushed blackberries, eucalyptus, Chinese five spice, liquorice and black pepper. The palate is superbly balanced providing a medium+ level of velvety tannins and medium to high acidity. Very long peppery finish. Drink now to 2015. "
Rated "Outstanding" 91 Points: Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate - 09 February 2009


Rizzardi Pojega Rippaso Valpolicella

Highly recommended 4**** in Decanter magazine this is consistently positioned in the top tier of Ripassos, a seriously good single-vineyard wine.

Price €17.45
March Wine Offers = €13.95

Decanter Magazine

"...black pepper and chocolate with a dense cherry and blueberry nose. Seductive and decadent, with an elegant earthiness and tobacco leaf touch. Very lingering, with a sweet and mineral blackberry finish."
Rated "Highly Recommended" 4****


Beaumont des Crayères Grande Réserve NV Champagne

Gold Medal and Best In Class at the 2008 Wine & Spirits Competition as well as a mutitude of press recommendations. This is a rock solid Champagne that puts all those familiar brands €10+ above it to shame!

Price €32.95
March Wine Offers = €26.95

Sunday Business Post

"Initially this has a really crisp, golden apple snap, then a building acidity, light minerality and a short, very crisp finish. It’s a mouth-watering, fresh wine begging to be accompanied by pâté or delicate scallops. 89 Points"
Tomás Clancy - 22 March 2009


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