home profile awards gallery superior deluxe suite profile menu wine cellar profile lifestyle programmes tariff listing christmas/new year special offers leisure golf outdoors how to find us kenmare enquiry form online reservations newsroom contact us The cellar contains over 400 wines from fourteen countries dating from 1952. Each wine is carefully selected from the top growths of the world's finest vineyards. A history of some wines listed with Irish connections :

From ProvanceFrance Chateau Vignelaure

Georges Brunet had already restored Chateau La Lagune in the Medoc, planted this 136 acres estate. In the 1960s' with Cabernet Sauvignon and proved to the world that Provance could produce such a good wine. In 1994, David and Catherine O' Brien revitalised this beautiful estate.

Working with Hugh Ryman and a talented team of Australian winemakers they are now producing excellent concentrated reds from a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah as well as a delightful Rose.

From AustraliaTrentham Estate, which is Irish owned since 1909 by the Murphy family who originated from County Cork , Ireland is now run by brothers Patrick and Tony. This small winery has carefully produced well ripened grapes to give a full bodied and well balanced fruit wine form Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Shiraz and Chardonnay. Also produces a late harvest dessert wine.

From CaliforniaCarneros Creek, Napa Valley - Signature Reserve 1993 and 1994. Owner Francis O Mahoney whose father emigrated from Skibbereen, Co. Cork in 1870 in search of a dream. With his love and desire for Red Burgundy wines from 1972 he started to produce the finest "Pinot Noir" in California.

The wines have a bright velveity appearance with a blackcherry fruit bouquet. Also produces a citrus scented chardonnay with a creamy toasted finish.