Irish wine... is there such a thing?
 

My daughter's school holds a big charity auction each year. Each class creates a gift basket that is auctioned. Her class is putting together a "Wines of the World" basket. Each student drew a country from a hat and my daughter drew Ireland. Our task: Buy a bottle of Irish wine.

We've traced our family's ancestory to Ireland as far back as the 1700s, so this makes her pick a little more interesting to me. But... after visiting many different large beverage stores we're having no luck finding a bottle of Irish wine. Am I wasting my time? We're not going to spend a huge amount of money to have a bottle shipped over, but never guessed this would be such an illusive thing.

Any suggestions?

Here's a couple of links.

Irish Vineyards - Fine Wines, Traditional Values

Bunratty Meade

Google for it.

Dave

Isn't that what the wife does when Patty comes home drunk again?

An Irish whine!:D

Of course there is. It's called "whiskey".

My thoughts exactly.

Yeah, we suggested that to our daughter and met with some resistance.

Rains too much in Eire for much wine there. Drink whiskey instead! :)

Hmmm... looks like "Irish Vineyards" is a California winery. I saw the meade, but didn't know if that counted as wine or not.

You are Irish and do not know about Mead?:eek::eek::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I call that a Granny Smith Apple. Green on the outside, pure vanilla white on the inside.

Try:

Mead - Honey Wine

My first thought too.

We were just in Ireland last week, and there was a vineyard at Bunratty, so they must make it. But the Jameson's (and Murphy's) at Durty Nelly's was calling me, so we didn't go there.

Check out Video tasting: Amurensis Walk, an Irish red wine from Sour Grapes the Irish wine blog. Wine in Ireland.

probably better for taking bugs off windscreens.......

Seriously, throw a nice single malt in there. It'll be a hoot.