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The first wine night went ahead in Fallon & Byrne and I was chuffed with the turnout. Some lovely wine and equally lovely people.
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This is the second in a series of three posts on the Burgundy wine-tasting I did in Mitchell & Son on April 10th. The first covered some white wines from Burgundy. This second post covers some of the Pinot Noir red wines from Burgundy. The first two were from Mercurey, with winemaker, Agnès Dewé-de Launay, [...]
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Burgundy wine tasting, Mitchell & Son, April 10th. The first in a three part blog series on this one event covers the whites.
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More fine wine tastings from the Irish Wine Board.
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Interested in an informal, independent and consumer-led wine tasting evening in Dublin?
I’m getting one together in what I hope to be a regular event. First one takes place in Fallon & Byrne, 15th April.
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Gooseberries: hairy, bitter little bastards that few of us have tried recently yet commonly used to describe NZ Sauvignon Blanc. Why?
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The Wine Board are hosting a series of Fine wine tasting evenings: a real opportunity to try some of the wines, like Cristal, for example, that Jay Z and his posse used to enjoy before they got popp’d a cap in their ass. Roederer, the producer, did an Irish bouncer impression, “Sorry folks, regulars only”.
Anyway, I digress, inside, the details of these tastings.
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Inside, a feature film on how a Chardonnay from Napa Valley beat the pants off some French wines in 1976.
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Some fruitcakes out there would have you believe that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, when played backwards, has satanic references. While these fruitcakes are not worth entertaining, there is a parallel with drinking wine.
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Having never bought wine from Marks n’ Sparks, I picked out three random reds, a Vacqueyras (Rhône), a Minervois (Languedoc-Roussillon) and a Pinot Noir from Tasmania.
