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Dublin: Private Wine Tasting Tour with Wine Expert
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From €245 per person
Ireland’s reputation is built on whiskey and stout, but Dublin has a quietly excellent wine scene if you know where to look. This private tour takes you into the city with a local wine expert who genuinely loves the stuff - not a scripted host, but someone who can answer your questions and adapt the whole experience to what you actually enjoy.
The 2-hour option visits two wine bars in the Historic City Centre and Temple Bar neighbourhood. Your guide selects four wines for you to try - red, white, and rosé - and walks you through each one: how to read the colour, what to smell for, and how to taste properly. You’ll pick up the language of wine without it feeling like a lecture. Along the way, you’ll hear about the winemaking process, grape varieties, and the surprising Irish connections to European viticulture.
Choose the 3-hour option and the evening stretches out a bit more. You’ll taste five wines, paired with traditional Irish appetisers, and weave in a walking tour of Dublin’s Old Town. Parliament Square, Temple Bar, and the historic Dublin Castle make for a good backdrop, and your guide will share the customs and traditions that make this city what it is.
The whole experience is tailored to you - your interests, your occasion, your preferences. It’s private, personal, and comes with the kind of humour you’d expect from a Dubliner.
Tell your guide what you already like before you start. The whole point of a private tasting is that the selection can shift to suit you. If you know you tend toward lighter reds or you’ve never really understood white Burgundy, say so at the beginning. Your expert will build the evening around where you actually are, not a generic progression from dry to sweet.
The wine bars your guide picks are places worth knowing about for the rest of your trip. Dublin’s independent wine bar scene has grown considerably in the last decade and a lot of the good spots are small enough that you’d walk past without noticing. Consider it reconnaissance as much as a tasting - you’ll leave knowing exactly where to go back on your own.
The Irish connections to European viticulture are more interesting than you’d expect. The Wild Geese - Irish soldiers and families who left Ireland for France and Spain after 1691 - settled in wine regions and some of their descendants are still making wine there today. Château Lynch-Bages in Bordeaux, for instance, takes its name from an Irish family from County Galway. Your guide knows these threads and they add a lot to the tasting.
The 3-hour option is worth it for the food alone. Traditional Irish appetisers alongside the wine tasting change the whole experience - you’re eating and drinking rather than just sipping, and the walk through Dublin’s Old Town between stops gives the evening a shape that feels more like a night out than a lesson. If you’re celebrating something, this is the version to book.
Book this early in your Dublin stay rather than saving it for the last night. You’ll enjoy the city more for the rest of your trip if you know which bars to return to and what to order. Coming back to a place your guide mentioned and finding a wine you recognise is one of those small pleasures that sticks with you.