Tomás Clancy on wine: Bordeaux’s Kildare connection
The tale of AC Saint-Julien is the most illustrious strand of the Irish wine story in France
The most famous wine appellation in Bordeaux is the river port of Pauillac, home to three of the wine world’s greatest first-classed growths: Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Mouton-Rothschild and Château Latour.
We Irish wine lovers shoehorn ourselves into the great Pauillac story by quickly mentioning Château Lynch-Bages, founded by the Galwegian Lynch family back in the early 18th century.
However, the most illustrious part of the Irish wine story is to be found a ...