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About Martin

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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