WINE O’CLOCK: Time to talk turkey – not to mention spiced beef Michael Wolsey 4th December 2020 When planning Christmas dinner I always start with the best of good intentions. Quality before quantity, don’t go mad on the sauces, remember the vegetarians
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Shops, like puppies, aren’t just for Christmas – use them or lose them Michael Wolsey 2nd December 2020 The full re-opening of shops this week caused a wave of excitement in many homes. Some people got up at dawn to be first in
WINE O’CLOCK: The wine that dares not speak its name Waterford Now 27th November 2020 The grapes for Champagne are picked by hand and always have been since the seventeenth century when the monk, Dom Pérignon, is said to have
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Time to end the show trials … free the RTÉ Four! Michael Wolsey 25th November 2020 The great RTÉ Covid apology has made disturbing viewing and listening. There was, I suppose, a certain satisfaction in seeing the tables turned on our
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Turning good cider into fine wine Michael Wolsey 20th November 2020 What’s the difference between cider and apple wine? Well, about €30 a bottle for one thing. But there are some other factors that make the
MICHAEL WOLSEY: We must hang together on Covid or we will all hang separately Waterford Now 18th November 2020 A trip down Dublin’s Henry Street has long been part of my Christmas. It’s an authentic Irish Christmas market, not an import from Scandinavia or
WINE O’CLOCK: Box clever and let the shop make the choice Michael Wolsey 13th November 2020 Good wines, like good books, are best bought from shops where you can look at the stock, savour the atmosphere and get advice from somebody
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Defend our way of life or we will surely lose it Michael Wolsey 11th November 2020 When news broke last Saturday that Joe Biden would be the next President of the United States, I felt happy. It wasn’t the obvious satisfaction
WINE O’CLOCK: Just right for drinking the duke’s health Michael Wolsey 6th November 2020 According to Shakespeare, the third Duke of Clarence was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine at the behest of his brother Richard III. It’s
MICHAEL WOLSEY: I don’t understand Americans. Maybe I never did. Michael Wolsey 4th November 2020 America has been part of my life for almost as long as I have had a life. Through my childhood, Uncle Sam was the distant