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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lisa O'Carroll Ireland correspondent

Ripe for the picking? Irish wine on the up – but ‘nobody will retire rich’

Phillip Little and Sean Kerin at their Triskelion vineyard in Kilkenny.
Phillip Little and Sean Kerin at their Triskelion vineyard in Kilkenny. Photograph: Sean Kerin

Heard the one about Irish wine? Like its English counterpart, it is no longer a joke, with more than a dozen vineyards now producing bottles to emulate those of the terroirs of France, Spain and Italy.

At about €60 (£50) a bottle and produced in small quantities, it is far from a commercial activity, but efforts over the last 10 years have produced what one retailer described as an “arguably very fine” rosé.

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