Summary of Bubble Brothers’ Blackrock Castle Wine Club meeting, January 2010.
Entries Tagged as 'Ireland'
Space: the final frontier for Blackrock Castle wine club launch
February 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blackrock Castle Wine Club, Cork, champagne
Tags: blackrock castle·champagne·Cork·Ireland·observatory·tasting·wine club
Bubble Brothers have the bottle for Twitter wine tasting
November 8th, 2009 · 8 Comments · BB tastings, Cork, blog, competitions, wine
I’ve always liked the idea of holding wine tastings through this blog, along the lines of a book club…
Tags: blind tasting·Cork·innovative wine merchantry·Ireland·online·twitter·web 2.0·wine tasting
Wine Board of Ireland to “cease… educational activities”
June 30th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Ireland, wine
“a decision has been taken to cease the educational activities of the Wine Board of Ireland from 31st July 2009″
Tags: advanced·diploma·Ireland·qualifications·wine board·wine courses
The thirteenth hole
May 19th, 2009 · No Comments · wine
Golfer-endorsed wines from Irish importer Celebrity Wines
Tags: endorsement·golf·Ireland·wine
Irish Budget 2009, October 2008, and the wine business
October 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Ireland, wine
Irish wine importer reacts to the October 2008 Budget for 2009 and excise duty increase.
Tags: budget·excise duty·Ireland·opinion·rate·wine duty·wine trade
If you missed our Spanish guests:
September 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · blog, marketing, wine
Here, from the TV channel with the most impertinent nose, is an interview with Emilio Saez van Eerd of www.casavides.com, recorded at the recent European Wine Bloggers’ Conference in Rioja, Spain: VINUS – La televisión con mejor bouquet – EWBC 16 We thoroughly enjoyed welcoming Emilio to Cork and we did enjoy the wines, too. [...]
Tags: casa de las vides·casavides·Cork·EWBC·importer blog·interview·Ireland·vinus·winery blog
RTE cookery show HEAT seeks participants
September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Ireland, food, marketing
I just received an email asking me to pass this on. Someone at RTE must have noticed that word gets around if you tell the bloggers and their friends. If only there was some way of their joining in… But for the food-minded among you, here’s another bite at the big cheese: Ireland’s amateur chefs [...]
Tags: cookery·heat·Ireland·reality TV·RTE
Vaynerchuk for Ireland and guff-swallowing
July 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Ireland, blog, wine
Ever since I first saw Gary Vaynerchuk’s wine tasting show, I’ve been racking my brains to think of how this might translate to Europe. As I may have mentioned before, there are some pretenders to the throne out there: two English chaps on a sofa and a German fellow, and doubtless there are many more. Now [...]
“On the Grapevine” – Irish wine importer blog
July 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Ireland, blog, wine
Good grief and odds bodlikins, cor blimey guv’nor &c. &c. Not just a new Irish wine blog, but one from within the trade. When I say new, Gabriel Cooney at On the Grapevine has been posting since April, but the blog has only just come to my attention, thanks to Gabriel’s joining the debate at [...]