Wine Diary 2025
by Jean Smullen
Published 01/01/2025

Happy New Year to all our readers and welcome to the 23rd year of Jean Smullen’s Wine Diary. I started the wine diary in 2002 to assist anyone organising a wine related event in Ireland to plan their dates. The initial objective was to alert the wine trade to upcoming events in order to avoid clashes.  With so many trade events taking place at certain times of the year,  this was important.   The diary initially began as email mail out and was then published in Wine Ireland magazine from 2002 to 2006.  

By 2004 the wine diary had become a website and the brief broadened to include consumer wine events which then expanded by including spirit and beer events.  Winter 2016 arrived and the time came for a website upgrade and a new look to the featured  trade and consumer wine related news and features, as well as the diary dates for wine and food, beer and spirit events taking place in the Republic of Ireland.

I would like to thank all the companies who have supported the diary either directly or via their PR companies.  Sending details of all your events keeps the diary relevant.  I have to point out that not everyone notifies us, which can lead to occasional clashes.  

If you have an event you would like to publicise, please send information via the contact section or email me directly.  The service is free of charge and all events are posted.

The wine diary would not survive without our readers.  Thank you for your continued support, I hope you will continue to visit the site on a regular basis.

 

Jean Smullen