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A couple of wine recommendations in Ireland


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2019 Jul 10, 12:31pm   916 views  18 comments

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Most wine sold in Ireland is shit. Even supposedly high end places like the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin have only so-so wine.

Il Vicolo in Galway is an excellent restaurant with excellent Italian wine. And it has a patio right on the Corrib River among the old buildings. Amazing.

But for a really stellar wine and food experience, visit Ely wine bar in Dublin, just a block from the Shelbourne. It's in a basement, but the quality more than makes up for it.

Update: added links to Il Vicolo and Ely websites above.

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1   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Jul 10, 4:59pm  

Patrick says
Most wine sold in Ireland is shit.


Maybe it's a sign you should drink beer when visiting?
2   Rin   2019 Jul 10, 5:00pm  

Visit Adelaide in Australia. All the places there have the best Aussie wines.
3   Ceffer   2019 Jul 10, 5:04pm  

If it gets you shitfaced, it's Irish!
4   Rin   2019 Jul 10, 5:14pm  

Ceffer says
If it gets you shitfaced, it's Irish!


Just get a bottle of hard liquor and forget the wine stuff for that.
5   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2019 Jul 10, 5:25pm  

They have excellent wines.

They are called Guinness and Jameson.

The Irish are outstanding at getting drunk.

Speaking of which, I’m German, Irish, and American Indian. Born with the trifecta of alcoholism.
6   Ceffer   2019 Jul 10, 8:07pm  

CovfefeButDeadly says
Speaking of which, I’m German, Irish, and American Indian. Born with the trifecta of alcoholism.

The German dilutes it a bit. Germans never want to be too drunk to aim a machine gun.
7   HeadSet   2019 Jul 11, 6:00am  

A couple of wine recommendations in Ireland

???? Wine in Ireland? Maybe next you could go to Napa Valley for some good stout beer.
8   Patrick   2019 Jul 11, 7:34am  

OK, true, but having lived in California for 20 years, I'm used to good wine, and that's what I prefer.

Maybe the Guinness is slightly better in Ireland than in the US, but not dramatically. Though one bartender (at Murphy's on the main pedestrian street in Galway) told me he pours a "savage" pint. Which was pretty funny, because it's a very slow traditional place, couple of old men loitering there all day.

Jameson is Jameson everywhere. Scotch drinkers look down on it, though I always like it. It does not vary.

But wine -- that's a real adventure, and the best wine is really worth paying for. Wine varies dramatically.

Many people did indeed seem to get shitfaced in Ireland. I watched a group of three older women on Inis Oírr drink three bottles, so a bottle of vodka each. Each! I'd need hospitalization after that. I can drink a bottle of wine no problem, but damn.

Now I'm in Chicago visiting relatives on the way back to CA.
9   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Jul 11, 7:36am  

Are you going up North tomorrow for the big holiday? hahahaha
10   Patrick   2019 Jul 11, 7:37am  

The Orange Parade? I don't think I'd feel welcome.
11   Patrick   2019 Jul 11, 7:40am  

I took this photo of the Orange Hall when I was in Belfast two years ago.

Note that all the windows are covered with mesh to prevent people from throwing rocks through the windows.

12   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Jul 11, 7:41am  

There's nothing like a good Celtic Row. It's traditional. ;)
13   Patrick   2019 Jul 11, 7:41am  

Crap, I hate how iPhones do you the unwanted "favor" of rotating pictures without asking.
14   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Jul 11, 7:43am  

I forget whether the bonfires are tonight or tomorrow.

Anyway, the British really did dick things up with United Irishmen and Wolfe Tone and a half dozen other opportunities to normalize Ireland as another Kingdom of the British Isles. Sad to think about.
15   Patrick   2019 Jul 11, 7:48am  

I was just reading about the Catholic Church was complicit in killing off Irish Gaelic as the dominant language too.

The English gave them money for a Catholic seminary at Maynooth, but with the condition that everything be in English. Bastards took the money and betrayed the language.

The English were actually more afraid of the Irish language as a cause for separatists than they were afraid of Catholicism.
16   Ceffer   2019 Jul 11, 10:47am  

HonkpilledMaster says
There's nothing like a good Celtic Row. It's traditional. ;)

Heh, Heh! I guess I got the 'calmer' genes from the other half.
17   Tenpoundbass   2019 Jul 11, 12:02pm  

Never order Fish at a Steakhouse. I'm just sayin'
18   Tenpoundbass   2019 Jul 11, 12:05pm  

CovfefeButDeadly says
Speaking of which, I’m German, Irish, and American Indian.


OK Elizebeth Gunther McGee.

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