Delahunt restaurant (39 Camden Street, Low, Dublin 2) has a fabulous looking venue with private tables, elegant and with super friendly and helpful staff.
The offer a menu with snacks, fish, meat, cheese, and dessert (€80). They don’t currently offer wine pairing menu as such, but the sommelier provided us with great advance of which wines to choose from.
We had 3 different wines, one white, one red and wine sweet wine.
#1: Wine: Eric Texier – Adele 2018 (€10.5)
👄 Taste: Fresh & light white wine with nice spicy finish.
🍇 Grape: Clairette & Marsanne (white grape varieties)
🇫🇷 Region: Rhône, France.
Food match:
🐟 Cured & torched trout, apple, cucumber, sorrel.
🐠 Halibut, broccoli, preserved lemon with oyster emulsion.
#2 Judith Beck – Out 2019 (€13.5)
👄 Taste: Cherry, spicy, slight acidity, and savoury notes.
🍇 Grape: Blaufränkisch, Zweigelt (red grape varieties)
🇦🇹 Region: Burgenland, Austria.
🐑 Lamb and Jerusalem artichoke.
#3 Killahora Rare Apple Ice Wine, 2018 (€9)
👄 Taste: Green apple, orange peel & butterscotch
🍏 Apples: Ice wine made from bittersweet cider apples rather than grapes. The apples are frozen, then slowly thawed to make the must (juice). The must is fermented for a year giving the wine a rich and sweet taste. Server chill
🇮🇪 Region: Killahora, Cork, Ireland.
Food match:
🧀 Brie with apple, celery, and walnut salad.
🍫 Chocolate, hazelnut, tonka bean.
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