About Me

Martin Moran has over 20 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 fermented wine in England, Alsace, Beaujolais, 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 and The Rutherglen Wine Show in Australia. He has written about wine for many magazines including Food and Wine and Wine Ireland, Business and Finance, several trade magazines and broadcasts regularly on Dublin radio station News Talk 106FM.

He's married to Cathy and they have two children, Joseph 9 and Sorcha 6 and 3 cats.