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Bubble Brothers — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:54:00 +0000

I came to the wine business from gardening, so I’m pretty sanguine about the need to prune from time to time to keep things healthy and stimulate growth.

This is my last day at Bubble Brothers, is what I’m on about.

I don’t feel that a factual or emotional summary of the six or seven years I’ve spent here serves any useful purpose, though I can’t imagine having acquired such a variety of new skills and interests in such a supportive environment anywhere else; and I do regret not having the time (or courtesy, depending on your point of view) to write to people I’ve met or otherwise dealt with and express the appropriate thanks and so on.

My colleagues at Bubble Brothers will continue to look after you with due care and attention, not to mention energy and flair, as you avail of some of the most interesting wines, and wine-related entrepreneuring, in the country.

Tasting wines from the Hahn portfolio with Bill Leigon

Bubble Brothers — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:55:56 +0000

Tasting some Hahn Family wines with Bill Leigon, company president

Bubble Brothers — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:45:51 +0000

Where wine and music meet – talking synaesthesia with Bill Leigon (interview part 5)

Bubble Brothers — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:23:06 +0000

In which I ask Bill about how he ended up in the wine business, and then we discuss the influence that wine and music can have on each other.

Bill Leigon interview – part 4

Bubble Brothers — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:57:02 +0000

In which Julian asks Bill about the Hahn family’s involvement in the company, and about the relatively modest alcohol content of the Cycles Gladiator range.

New Italian wines

Bubble Brothers — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:30:07 +0000

As a change from the last few posts about my chat with Bill Leigon of Hahn Wines, and before I complete the sequence of video clips from that interview, I thought you ought to know about our new wines from Italy.

It’s been a while since we made so many additions to the list all at once, and this time there are some new styles to enjoy.

Our choices are the result of Billy’s trip to the VinItaly fair in Verona earlier in the year. As well as the lovely and different wines from Emilia-Romagna that he picked out during his visit, there was also progress with a relationship I’ve had on the back burner for a few years, which means we have some cracking Sicilian bottles too.

Here are the new arrivals, including sweet, sparkling reds, pink Pinot Grigio and grapes that may be new to you:

From Emilia-Romagna (whence cometh Parmesan cheese and Bolognese sauce, food matchers):

Lombardini, Lambrusco Emilia IGT “Lambrusco della Dama” 11% a.b.v.

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Price: €9.95

Lombardini, Chardonnay frizzante “Il Bianco della Dama” 11% a.b.v.

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Price: €9.95

Lombardini, Reggiano Lambrusco Amabile DOC 8.5% a.b.v.

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Price: €11.00

Zerioli, Pinot Grigio Frizzante Tenuta Pozzolo DOC

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Price: €12.50

Zerioli, Gutturnio Colli Piacentini DOC

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Price: €13.50

and, from Sicily:

Feudo Montoni, “Colori del Sud” Rosso Sicilia IGT

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Price: €11.50

Feudo Montoni, “Colori del Sud” Bianco Sicilia IGT

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Price: €11.50

Feudo Montoni, Nero d’Avola “N”

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Price: €13.50

Feudo Montoni, Catarratto

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Price: €15.50

Bill Leigon talks wine and technology (interview part 3)

Bubble Brothers — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:48:12 +0000

Bill Leigon talks naked nymphs and mobile marketing (interview part 2)

Bubble Brothers — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:28:55 +0000

Wine Australia Ireland 2010

Bubble Brothers — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:51:15 +0000

So here we are enjoying the fruits of our labours at the charity tag-rugby event that warmed up a number of Irish wine folk the day before the annual Wine Australia tasting. As you can see, we won a cup. There were other cups, more ostentatiously proportioned it must be said, that we might have won if we’d had a mind to.

Muscle, youthful vigour and the feminine touch were lent, in roughly that order, to the Bubble crew by visitors from our Australian suppliers Rathbone Wine Group; the son, with his friends, of a leading light of Irish wine journalism; and a member of the Wine Australia team, poached to order because, as far as the Rules are concerned, a team with no ladies is no team at all.

We had a lot of fun before, during and after.

I ought to write a serious post about the extraordinary efforts of Wine Australia and its man in Ireland, John McDonnell. I will try.

Interview with Bill Leigon of Hahn Family Winery – the real part 1

Bubble Brothers — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:44:00 +0000