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Space: the final frontier for Blackrock Castle wine club launch

February 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blackrock Castle Wine Club, Cork, champagne

Summary of Bubble Brothers’ Blackrock Castle Wine Club meeting, January 2010.

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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…

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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″

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Such a thing as a free lunch from MenuPages.ie

May 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Ireland, blog, competitions, food, marketing

Irish restaurant review site MenuPages.ie.

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The thirteenth hole

May 19th, 2009 · No Comments · wine

Golfer-endorsed wines from Irish importer Celebrity Wines

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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.

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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.  I’m putting [...]

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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 wanted for [...]

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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 [...]

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“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 [...]

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