Wine of the week: Sparkling Pirie from Tasmania

Posted on April 14th, 2010 No Comments yet

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Wine of the week is a devilishly good bubbly from Tasmania.

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Cakebread Cellars of Napa Valley – Video

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 2 Comments

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Bruce Cakebread from Cakebread Cellars in Napa Valley featured in 4 videos filmed in Dublin’s Ely CHQ.

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3 from the enomatics in O’Brien’s, Beacon Quarter

Posted on March 20th, 2010 No Comments yet

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Three from the enomatic wine system in O’Brien’s in Sandyford’s Beacon Quarter.

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Bargain bubbly: Phillipe Michel Crémant du Jura (Aldi €10)

Posted on February 6th, 2010 1 Comment

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Call me bubbles, darling. Everybody does.

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Advance Australia Fair: John Wilson’s Favourite Australian Wines

Posted on December 6th, 2009 3 Comments

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My intentions were honorable, simply to poke my head in to say hello John Wilson and John McDonnell. However, the road to home is paved with good intentions and when I saw the range of eclectic styles, flavors and prices John had picked, I had to stick around a little longer than intended. Inside, some of my highlights.

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Tickled Pink

Posted on November 13th, 2009 No Comments yet

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Great value Pink Sparkler from Australia. Imaginatively, they’ve called it “Pink”.

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Curious Wines New Zealand Tasting, Dublin

Posted on November 11th, 2009 5 Comments

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Notes from the Curious Wines New Zealand tasting in Dublin.

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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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Salena Estate Organic Chardonnay

Posted on August 5th, 2008 1 Comment

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David Dennison Fine Wines very kindly sent me three sample of wine to try. The first is the Salena Estate Organic Chardonnay from Renmark, Riverland in South Australia.

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Open wine 3 write-up: Baron de Ley Rioja and “GruVee” wine from 1983

Posted on June 13th, 2008 5 Comments

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Enowine enomatic system
The third open wine evening took place in Enowine, IFSC. We had a great night trying wines on the enomatic system, listening to a talk on Baron de Ley wines from Rioja and tasting a 25 year old wine from Austria.

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