3 wines to try, buy and put by

Vega Real, Roble, DO Ribera del Duero, 2005, €10 from good wine shops (88)

Irish wine consumers are always on the lookout for the inside track. Spain’s Ribera del Duero is one of the hippest wine regions in the world, meaning it is rarely reasonably priced. Add praise from Robert Parker and massive investment by every fashionable architect on the planet, and we have a recipe for astronomically priced wines. With its good wines selling for between €30 to €80 a bottle, we need to move quickly ...