Four of the best wines to hit the Irish market this autumn

The wine trade tastings begin in earnest in September. It is the start of the busiest few months of the calendar. Importers open a range of wines, usually including new wines they sourced earlier in the year. Their customers, the restaurants and retailers, are invited, as is the press. This week I feature four wines that are new to market. Three are from lesser-known regions and I have one classic from Bordeaux.

The Fiano grape is native to Campania in Italy, where it produces some high-quality, full-flavoured wines that vary from crisp and dry to rich and tropical. It is growing in popularity in Sicily, where it seems to flourish.

Graves is one of the historic wine regions of Bordeaux, named after the free-draining gravel soils. It is the only appellation of Bordeaux that can produce red, white and sweet wines. The wine below is made predominantly from the merlot grape, giving it soft, rounded plum fruits.

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Weingut Jesuitenhof is a historic estate, once a Jesuit monastery dating back to the 16th century. The Jesuitenhofgarten is a small walled vineyard in Dirmstein in the Pfalz region of Germany. Riesling is one of the world’s great grapes and the word Trocken on the label signifies that it is dry.

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For many years, visitors to the Canary Islands were offered cheap local wines or well-known brands from mainland Spain. The wine world has only recently woken up to the fact that the Canaries have a long and fascinating wine history and culture that produces some thrilling wines. The wine from Tenerife below is made from a blend of four local grape varieties; malvasía volcánica, marmajuelo, albillo criollo and vijariego negro. All of these are grown on ungrafted vines grown on volcanic terraces.

Fiano 2024, Castellore, Terre Siciliane, Italy

12.5%, €9.99

Light-bodied with fresh plump pear and nectarine fruits and a nicely rounded finish. A good sipping wine, or try it with herby Asian prawn dishes.

Château Haut Barry 2020, Graves

14%, €19

Soft easy plum fruits with a herbal note and light tannins on the finish. Drink alongside roast red meats or mushrooms.

Celtic Whiskey, Dublin 2; Blackrock Cellar, Co Dublin; Deveney’s, Dublin 14

Jesuitengarten’ Riesling Trocken 2024, Pfalz

12.5%, €30-35

An excellent dry riesling with complex spicy peach and apple fruits, and a lovely long finish. Yum! Enjoy on its own, with oysters, scallops or pork dishes.

Whelehan’s, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin; Deveney’s, Dublin 14; O’Driscoll’s, Cork; Next Door Clonakilty, Co Cork; MacGuiness Dundalk, Co Louth