Straight from the Look and Taste kitchen, we have yours truly on the 3 essentials to picking a wine glass, with the ‘+1′ on how much wine you should put into it (if you’re into your wine etiquette!).

Kind of obvious, but at the very least you’ll know now why “traditional” wine glasses look like they do - and why, sometimes, you shouldn’t mess with tradition.

Bit like the old Jif Lemon ad on Pancake Day, just don’t forget the wine!

Thanks to Niall & Aaron at Look and Taste.

As we designed the July contest the sun WAS shining but, ever the optimists, we’re heralding the start of the magnificent Irish summer with a barbeque-themed prize for our July contest. This month we’re giving away six really smart, patio-friendly wine glasses (ok, they’re plastic but ‘wine plastics’ just doesn’t sound right), a picnic-friendly disposable barbeque, and the obligatory couple of bottles of palate-friendly summer rosé while you wait for the sausages to cook.

How to enter: As ever, all you have to do to enter is join (or already be a member of) our monthly newsletter. We’ll draw a winner at random on the 1st July when our next newsletter goes out, and deliver your Barbeque pack the day after (or whenever you’d like) free of charge. You are of course completely welcome to un-join the minute after the draw is done, but we like giving discounts and free stuff to our members, so we hope you’ll stick around!

Congratulations to the winner of the June contest, Genevieve Wiseman from Cork, who is now adopting Curious the baby giraffe and toasting his arrival with a few bottles of South African Long Neck!