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Martin
Moran has over 25 years experience in the wine trade. He’s poured
wine in restaurants and hotels in London, sold wine in Dublin,
London, Paris, New York and Sydney; picked grapes in Alsace,
Chateauneuf-du-pape, Buxy, Chablis, Bordeaux and Southern
England; grown grapes in England and helped ferment wine in
England, Alsace, Beaujolais, Bordeaux, Bergerac, Adelaide and the Hunter valley;
he’s blended it in France, Argentina and England and
naturally drunk it all over the world.
 Along
the way he passed the notoriously difficult Master of Wine
exam in 1994 and became the first MW to work in Ireland the
following year. There are still only three in the Republic of
Ireland.
He’s judged wine for Wine Magazine, Decanter, Food
& Wine and Wine Ireland and The Consumer
Association. He’s also judged wine for the International
Wine and Spirit Competition and the International Wine
Challenge in the UK as well as wine competitions in Australia
and South Africa. He has written about wine for many magazines
including Food and
Wine, Intermezzo, Wine Ireland, Business and Finance, several trade
magazines. Currently he writes a column in DUblin's Evening
Herald each Thursday and broadcasts regularly on Irish radio station News Talk
106-108FM, usually every second Friday on the Moncrieff
show after the 3pm news. He also appears on TV intermittantly
on RTE's
Afternoon show.
In
2006 he was runner up for the Glenfiddich award for best wine
writer in the UK & Ireland and in 2007 was short listed in
the 'Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards for World's Best
Drinks Writer.
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