Bill Leigon of Hahn Family wines sings “It Had to Be You” in conversation with Julian of Irish importers Bubble Brothers.
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Bill Leigon interview, part one
April 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · England, marketing, music, wine
Tags: "central coast"·"cycles gladiator"·bill leigon·californian wines·gus kahn·hahn family winery·hahn wines·isham jones·it had to be you·wine and song
Sweet and hot
November 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Cork, marketing, music, wine
One of the drawbacks of being a flaky arts graduate is that you have to, or at least should, fight the urge to draw extended analogies between one bunch of human experience and another. Those big ol’ nebulous comparisons just litter the place up, and generally aren’t either big or clever. But sometimes it’s in [...]
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A new acústic, DO Montsant: a white one
March 10th, 2009 · No Comments · marketing, music, wine
Albert Jane, who makes tremulous, resonant reds in Montsant in eastern Spain, has sent us the label for his new white wine made from 60% white Garnatxa, 25% Macabeu, 10% pink Garnatxa and 5% Pansal. We should like to try this when we get the chance and see if it twangs our strings.
Mardi Gras wine choices
February 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · dance, music, wine
There’s more to the day than pancakes!
Tags: lard·Lent·mardi gras·pancake·second line·shrove tuesday·wine matching
Slow day at the design desk
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized, marketing, music, writing
I just spotted this. It’s probably not a winning concept, but it is further proof that finding new ways to distinguish one wine from another and woo the undecided is a busy business. Drink wine anytime & anywhere
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the ambition of art to intervene in social life and political thinking
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Cork, music
We’re neighbours of the National Sculpture Factory, and sometimes they buy a few bottles when there’s an occasion, such as the re-launch of the Cork Caucus book and accompanying discussions this Saturday. This is the kind of event that needs support, and a bit of bloggers’ petrol on the embers of debate wouldn’t go amiss. [...]
Tags: concert·Cork Caucus·Dolly Parton·Marquee·National Sculpture Factory·NSF
Swedish jazzman Svensson dies in scuba accident
June 17th, 2008 · No Comments · music
Here is the report from Reuters on the untimely death of Swedish pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson. RIP. Swedish jazzman Svensson dies in scuba accident | Entertainment | Music | Reuters
A few quick ones
June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · England, music, writing
Donegal-born poet Matthew Sweeney is reading in Ipswich tonight, not far from St Nicholas’s church and the Willis Faber Dumas building (you should be able to see them in the multimap linked below). Something for the literati, the historians and the architecture mob, so. Half past seven for the reading, half six for the bar. [...]
Tags: Ipswich·Matthew Sweeney·poetry
Evanescent partialities
May 26th, 2008 · No Comments · England, blog, music, writing
Paul Weller was fifty at the weekend. Crikey. It’s the Suffolk Show again Wednesday and Thursday. Few places I’d rather be, really few. Crumbs. Our roving reporter, Valérie, is just about to publish her account of her trip to the London Wine Fair with pictures and everything, and I still haven’t posted ninety per cent [...]
Chet twenty years gone
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments · music
It’s twenty years since Chet Baker died, and about twenty years and a month since I saw him playing in Calais (that’s another story). Here he is having a go at Nardis, which you may be more familiar with from the horn of Miles Davis. It looks as though there’s some kind of YouTube hoo-ha [...]
Tags: anniversary·calais·chet baker·nardis·trumpet