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We Irish love Albarino, and Albarino loves us: its spiritual home of the Atlantic-fringed Rias Baixas region in Galicia counts Ireland as the third-largest export market after the US and UK, by volume alone. We can both afford to spread the love then, Albarino and us. Today’s selection of white wines features friends from inland Galicia and south into neighbouring northern Portugal.
February can be fickle. Is it winter or spring? No wonder there are two camps on that question it seems even the weather itself can’t quite decide. It ain’t summer, that’s for sure, so it can be a fine time to seek out the heat of some bottled sunshine, something that Sicily delivers with gusto.
Pet Nat is having a moment, quickstepping into the mainstream of wine drinking from the natural wine fringes, where it’s been a darling of hipster wine bars for some time. You’ll still only really find it in independent retailers rather than supermarkets, but it’s worth seeking out to share with your Valentine or Galentine this week.
Changing habits is hard and changing thinking harder. As we all embark on a national reset, with the new Deposit Return Scheme for recycling aluminium and steel cans and PET plastic bottles, is it also time to start rethinking glass?