Michael Collins

@TonyJohnstone56 Really enjoying your photos from Kruger @TonyJohnstone56 I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days there a few years ago. Wish I was back there now

A Kruger lion backlit by the lowering evening sun.

@Liam3494 @jimofayr @bikepeter @SeagreenWench @cynthia_hayes @JohnMFodera @ArdenPaul4 @CHARLIEWINES @JT_in_LA Looking good @jimofayr and Julia

So much fun here in BA meeting up with wine pals from back in the Northern Hemisphere. Lunch at Dora, an old world restaurant, you cant help but love... The world shrinks.... @jimofayr @bikepeter @SeagreenWench @cynthia_hayes @JohnMFodera @ArdenPaul4 @CHARLIEWINES @JT_in_LA

@DavidMarra Did you have to fill up before Tuesday?

I have to earn around €100 to buy €17.50 worth of fuel…

@jimofayr @AlexTheBike @ArdenPaul4 @fletchwine @GilesMacDonogh @TheWatchfulCook @TheWineCruUK @Ayrshireoutdoor @Liam3494 We like Rutini wines, our local independent wine shop stocks them

Never had a Cab Sov/Malbec blend before but in a traditional old restaurant in Buenos Aires it went very well with our dinner And where else would you find pope Francis and Che together!

@dineen20dineen One of the earlier programmes to be broadcast in colour, followed on a Thursday night by the High Chaperal also in colour

Music memories on Thursday evening tuning into Top of the pops and waiting for the count down to the number one

@dineen20dineen And Charles Mitchell

We had Don Cockburn reading the RTE News when we had the black and white rented television

@betdaqsports @dineen20dineen Don't be so rude. It's Cockburn, pronounced Coe Burn. Who's the imbecile now?

@dineen20dineen It's Coe Burn you imbecile!

@dineen20dineen A chap, reasonably intelligent, who worked with my wife was on it. Under the lights his mind went blank and he came home with nothing. From then on he had to endure the nickname Stop the Lights!

Stop the lights did you tune into Quick Silver presented by Bunny Carr on RTE 1 1960s-1980s

@bencoles_ More a shoulder to the head. If Pillock hadn't thrown the ball away it wouldn't have happened, England would have won and Ireland would be champions!

It's this one by Davison

Powerscourt on St Patrick's weekend

@AlexDuncanTX Surely you're all immigrants or descended from immigrants, except for the few native Americans?

End all forms of immigration. We do not want or need any more foreigners in America.

@Sommelierswin @windsor1337 Filipa Pato is a great winemaker. Her dad isn't bad either!

@windsor1337 The Douro is just the start. Producers in Dao and Bairrada like Filipa Pato and Alvaro Castro are making some of the most exciting wines in all of Europe right now, at prices that still make Burgundy collectors weep.

Portugal's Wine Boom: How the Country Became Europe's Most Exciting Wine Story Portugal's wine industry is having a moment. theportugalbrief.pt/portugal-wine-… #Portugal #PortugalNews #PortugalEconomy #Economy

Very enjoyable Piedmont tasting last night at Conlon's wine bar, Bray. Presented by Rory of @winelabireland My favourite was Gabriele Scadlione "Ellis" Langhe Bianco, a blend of Chardonnay and Arneis and amazingly 10 years old @Blinderswine

@jimofayr Enjoy your trip

Things you see on a morning stroll in Buenos Aires

Manto from Bodega La Geria, brought back from #Lanzarote Diego grape, 3 months in oak barrique. Lovely texture with a mineral edge. @Blinderswine

A drop of Teroldego tonight. From Foradori in Trentino. Lovely with a roast chicken. Had a great visit to the winery last year with @Blinderswine

@DavidMarra @jwalkermobile @teamhrc @pberard @Masterofwhine Had it some years ago when it was affordable. It was really good. 100% Grenache, if I recall and I do like Garnacha/Grenache

@jwalkermobile @teamhrc @pberard I’ve not had it but everyone I know who has says it’s sublime. @Masterofwhine what would you say?

For you wine lovers, very curious here, if you could try one wine you haven’t yet tried, what would it be? For me… Chateau Rayas. I just can’t get by the amount of $$$ for a Rhône which generally I see as a value, at least compared to Burgundy. Also, anyone tried Rayas, worth it?

Some Riojas recently drunk in Lanzarote. All good, the Barronte Finca Matapaja '21 from Villabuena was super. @ADHalliwell @Blinderswine

@ADHalliwell 300% for most of Lanzarote where I am seems right. Locals tell us it was wettest winter for 59 years. Only 1 wet day in Feb so far though

This is a good map, showing the percentage of normal #rainfall that has fallen in the first 5 weeks of the year. Bear in mind that Galicia (the bit above Portugal) is normally super-wet anyway and so has been double that.

@ArdenPaul4 @jimofayr @TheWatchfulCook @fletchwine @FratelliAimasso @groutie60 @rs_bc_bl @robertomoex Have you tasted Cashel Blue or Young Buck?

@jimofayr @TheWatchfulCook @7MikeCollins6 @fletchwine @FratelliAimasso @groutie60 @rs_bc_bl @robertomoex Stichelton has to be the finest blue cheese in the world. Great selection there Jim. Ruché a nice addition to help wash them all down.

Had a cheese plate after dinner this evening with a full of character Ruché wine. Hope you like the cheeses @TheWatchfulCook the stichelton was particularly grand