Delighted to have recently welcomed Andi Punter and Maria Luisa Manna of Franz Haas winery, Alto Adige, Italy, in association with Gerry Gunnigan, Liberty Wine Merchants. Franz Haas has producing estate wines since 1880, the year in which the present-day winery was established. A family-run estate, it was handed down through the generations to the first-born son Franz Haas.
Some of our French winemaking heroes
Samuel and Colm, sommeliers at Ballymaloe were delighted to recently catch up with some of thier French winemaking heroes, at a recent tasting of Le Caveau with Pascal Rossignol
Samuel, pictured below with Luc de Conti of Chateau Tour des Gendres, Bergerac
and with Bertrand Sourdais, of Domaine de Pallus, Chinon.
Colm with Pascal Verhaeghe of Chateau du Cedre, Cahors
Samuel with Luc de Conti and Pascal Verhaeghe
Little Beauty Wines, Marlborough, New Zealand
Fleur McCree of Little Beauty Wines, Marlborough, New Zealand, pictured below with Marurice O’Mahony, Wine Alliance, Cork based wine importer, during their visit to Ballymaloe.