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  1. Wrapped in straw & tissue paper & wooden box, with numbered certificate. Belle Epoque-beautiful champagne: http://short.ie/1911grandcru
  2. Feed the pudding, the cook, tira mi su, you name it. Maritime-ambrosial sweet fortified wine from Sicily €17: http://short.ie/sweetmarsala
  3. Beaujolais Nouveau, not so much. The 'little Burgundy' of Gamays, maybe: complex, spicy and mature (2003) €21: http://short.ie/windmill
  4. People just keep on liking this, year after year. Mellow, strokable crianza from Extremadura in SW Spain €14: http://short.ie/porfavor
  5. Splash of white grape works wonders on Yarra Valley Shiraz. Tonight I'm enjoying the warm embrace of this: €13: http://short.ie/shirazplus
  6. A comfy cushion aiding ensconcement after vile weather, eg Cork's today. Faultless Victorian Shiraz €15: http://short.ie/billibillishiraz
  7. Not wine but an enhancement, as "the party season" goes to press. Flowers in syrup to make your fizz blush €11: http://short.ie/hibiscus
  8. Blind-tasted on twitter last night #twebt, and generally admired, a mystery wine €12: http://short.ie/twebt
  9. Concentrated aromas, rippling Roussanne and Grenache Blanc muscle in a punchy white from the Midi €14: http://short.ie/bressadestradblanc
  10. Australian range now in stock! How about a bouncy, succulent, youthful Yarra Valley Pinot Noir for just €13?: http://short.ie/juicyfruit
  11. As close as we get to Portugal, wine-wise: from just over the border, monovarietal Prieto Picudo, dense & violety €18: http://short.ie/otero
  12. Which wine topped the polls at http://short.ie/strewth? Not from Clare, nor Eden, but stuff this in yer tucker-bag €19: http://short.ie/edgy
  13. @slurps Hats with corks, kangaroos, Don Bradman, Ian Date, Jack Duggan, Pinot Grigio. No odd one out €15: http://short.ie/aussiepinotgrigio
  14. Alessandro Speri's ripe, Venetianish Malbec not on show at http://www.argentinatasting.co.uk/ but €18 from us: http://short.ie/spericlassic
  15. Still sailing, but when it gets here you'll see why we're excited about our new Australians. Sumptuous, silky red €13: http://short.ie/lysv
  16. In honour of tonight's biodynamic Twitter tasting - see bbrblog.com - a pure but brawny unoaked Rhône red €23: http://short.ie/vacqueyrasbio
  17. http://bit.ly/hVolv "It's not a cloyingly sweet blush wine or something pinkish posing as a wine cooler" €14: http://short.ie/bressadesrose
  18. Unoaked Tempranillo, soft, round and as ready to go as a vino de mesa should be €10: http://short.ie/cosecherostinto
  19. Tawny-skinned, honey-scented Spanish beauty. Enjoy its supple caress as the fancy takes you, for a trifling €11: http://short.ie/vinodelicor
  20. This went down a blast at our Spanish tasting - a brilliant, poised Albariño €18: http://short.ie/contrapunto