It was an idea born over street drinks in a suburb of Dublin after the first lockdown last year. Thirty-six-year-old Eamon FitzGerald was working as global wine director for an international listed wine business called Naked Wines when he found himself, for the first time in nine years, not travelling the world hunting for the best little known vineyards.  Instead, the vineyards were sending him dozens of bottles of wine every month in the post to sample and decide whether to offer them on to Naked Wines customers.  It was too much for one man to drink, so FitzGerald started…

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