I WAS at a tasting recently to catch up with what’s what at Tesco. Here are my highlights.
Folks do like to push the boat out a bit for Christmas dinner and bearing that in mind, I’ll be putting together a suggested selection of somewhat more upmarket wines for the groaning board from Tesco and other [...]
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Casablanca
I BET you think Casablanca is an atmospheric romance, set against the amoral demi-monde of Nazi-occupied North Africa during the Titanic struggle between good and evil that was World War II. It isn’t. Casablanca is about drinking prodigious quantities of alcohol.
It opens promisingly enough, with our antihero downing a glass of bubbly. Bogart then gives [...]
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THURSDAY’S fundraiser at the Sexual Violence Centre (see below) was a social event rather than a straight tasting. The mood was even more convivial than I’d expected. So I merrily abandoned some of the planned stuff, including a few fun wine-tasting exercises and pretty much all of the editorialising. It’s best to go with the [...]
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It’s wine o’clock!
I’M running a fun wine-tasting evening with the Sexual Violence Centre, Cork on Thursday June 25. We’ll be sipping from a long list of wines that I think will light yer candle – accompanied by some top-class tasty treats courtesy of Bridget Healy and Vourneen Fayer. Yay!
For years, Mary Crilly and myself [...]
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