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

Karu Merlot
Price €7.25
July Wine Offers = €6.45
Rasteau Tradition
Price €10.89
July Wine Offers = €9.99

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Protocolo Tinto

Marcos Eguren, is ranked in Spain's top 5 premium winemakers making some of Spain's most famous wines. With Protocolo, Marcos turns his hand to making a really delightful juicy, fruity red with aromas and flavours of str ...

Price €8.45

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."


Karu Merlot

A Chilean Merlot to beat all others, this is simply outstanding wine for the money, soft super-juicy ripe plummy fruit and the kind of long full-flavoured finish you would expect from wine twice its price! Drink on its o ...

Price €7.25
July 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


Chanson Fleurie

The Burgundy house of Chanson founded in 1750, owned by top Champagne House Bollinger, delivers wines of great quality and value. This Fleurie has great weight of fruit on the palate and definitely tastes like a Beaujola ...

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


Rasteau Tradition

Rasteau is one of the most famous villages for producing rich reds in the Southern Rhone. This village is now its own Cru Appellation and French wine law recognises it at the same level as Gigondas and Chateauneuf-du-Pap ...

Price €10.89
July Wine Offers = €9.99

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. "
Vintage 2007: Katherine Donnelly - 12 January 2008


Domaine Duffour Blanc

Quite frankly we have never tasted a white wine this good for so little money! This terrific Gascony white smells and tastes more like a top Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc than anything else…simply superb!!!

Price €9.45
July Wine Offers = €7.99
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The Irish Times

"A very ripe aromatic Sauvignon-like nose with a touch of gooseberries; zippy ripe rounded green fruits, but not sweet. A lovely, light, easy-drinking lemony wine with plenty of fruit. Perfect for parties and everyday succour."
John Wilson - 14 November 2009


Torbreck Woodcutter's Shiraz

Torbreck, located in the Barossa Valley, has been a unique success story for owner/winemaker, Dave Powell, whose obsession with quality has really paid dividends. This 100% Shiraz, which has been aged for 12 months in ol ...

Price €17.95
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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

From the historic and highly acclaimed house of Guerrieri Rizzardi, this is a stunning Ripasso. Pojega is an ancient vineyard, from which the fruit for this Valpolicella is carefully cultivated. Made in small quantities ...

Price €17.45

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
July 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


Norton Barrel Select Malbec

Strong aromas of damson and red-berried fruit with a marked oakiness. Follows through to soft ripe damson and blueberry fruit on the palate. Medium to full in bodied with sturdy but smooth tannin.

Price €9.99

Sunday Business Post

"This wine, from 15 to 20-year-old vines, is rich and inky dark. Bursting with soft blackberry, there are touches of spice, vanilla notes and a chewy, lightly tannic finish. It is flashy and pleasurable and yearns for thick fillet steaks in a black pepper sauce."
Tomás Clancy - 28 February 2010


Shearwater Sauvignon Blanc

New to Ireland this is the seriously good new Sauvignon from Marlborough. Gooseberry and bell pepper on the nose lead into a palate of lush passion fruit and kiwi. Mouthwateringly fresh, this is absolute benchmark and a ...

Price €12.45

Sunday Business Post

"... a solid, technically excellent wine. It has a good, lean Loire style gooseberry nose, then soft, sweet Kiwi-style passion fruit notes and a fine crisp, zesty finish... An ideal companion for seared scallops, prawn salads or other shellfish dishes."
Tomás Clancy - 21 February 2010


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