Italy Unwrapped

Last week, my sister- and father-in-law and I spent a few hours tasting delicious Italian wines in one of the most incredible buildings.

Since the three of us are the wine drinkers in our family, we all hopped on the train into the city and traipsed up the north side of the Liffey River to Number 10, Ormond Quay. Number 10 is an old Georgian house that’s used for events – seated dinners and small parties. It’s furnished with an incredible mix of period antiques and a serious contemporary art collection. The walls are all painted deep, moody colors. It would be such a neat place for a small wedding!

Brid and Collum Carter and their family (who turned out to be long time friends of my in-laws! small world!) set up this wine tasting with producers from all different regions in Italy. We tasted a whole range of red and white wines (you can see why we took the train!) Then we munched on rosemary focaccia, mini pizzas and delicious tomato, mozzarella and basil skewers. It was a lovely evening, chatting with the wine producers and learning lots about Italian wine.

Here’s Angie (very impressed) and my father-in-law speaking with the owner, John Lynch. Angie was angling for a VIP tour. She didn’t get the special tour, but she did get tons of cool information about the house. Turns out it was built in the late 1700s as a party house – Number 10 has no bedrooms, but Number 9 does!

But Angie wasn’t quite satisfied – she thought a peek in the back attic was in order! Imagine the cool things you’d find up there?!