Archive for the ‘White wine’ Category

Two Spy Valley wines for a Twecipe Recipe

Posted on February 17th, 2009 5 Comments

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Two wines to go with a delicious goat’s cheese recipe suggested by Twitter sensation, Twecipe.

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Thelema tasting in Vaughan Johnson’s Wine Shop Temple Bar

Posted on February 6th, 2009 No Comments yet

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Video Tasting: Albariño & Godello: Two Galician Grapes

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 5 Comments

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A pair of gorgeous Galicians tasted in this video tasting.

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Kamptal gets DAC status

Posted on January 12th, 2009 1 Comment

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Austria gets a new official wine region: Kamptal.

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Video tasting: Friendly Grüner Veltliner 2007 by Laurenz V.

Posted on January 8th, 2009 8 Comments

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Yours truly video tasting of one my favourite white wines of the moment, a “Friendly Gruner Veltliner”.

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Wines for Christmas

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 6 Comments

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Everyone else is recommending wines for Christmas, so why not join them. Well, here it goes. 1. Brunch bubbly: Moscato d’Asti Frank from Robert Francis Wine introduced me to the Oddero Moscato d’Asti NV at the iFoods.tv bloggers Christmas party. The way he put it was that you can’t help but smile when drinking this [...]

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Lunch with Laurenz, a charming GrüVee guy

Posted on November 11th, 2008 2 Comments

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Great lunchtime meeting with Laurenz V (Lenz Moser) last week.

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Sourgrapes.ie featured on iFoods.tv

Posted on November 5th, 2008 2 Comments

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Sourgrapes.ie hits the bigtime – advertisers please note ;) – as I appear on iFoods.tv, tasting some wines with Niall in Fallon & Byrne.

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Aprilante: super Tuscan white wine video

Posted on October 27th, 2008 1 Comment

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White wine from Tuscany

Tuscany isn’t well known for its white wines. That’s about to change.

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Unsigned rockstars: the wines of Pieve de’ Pitti

Posted on October 24th, 2008 4 Comments

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An unsigned rockstar in the form of the wines from Pieve de’ Pitti and a brand new blog on the block, whose simple mission is to find an Irish importer for it.

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