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WINE O’CLOCK: Awful blurb, beautiful bottle, lovely wine

By Kilkenny Now 7th June 2019 0

DADAISM is a cultural movement that began in Zurich in 1916. Bet you didn’t know that, now. Neither did I until I read it on the back of a wine bottle. According to the label on Dadá Art Wine No 3, “Dadaism’s main contribution to art is its constant questioning about what art, or poetry, […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Shedding some light on Pinot Noir

By Kilkenny Now 3rd May 2019 0

LAST week I wrote about Irish names that have made a mark in the wine world – mostly those of the ‘wine geese’, merchants who fled this country in the early eighteenth century. Nessa Corish is a more recent goose – sorry about that Nessa, nothing personal. You won’t see her name on a bottle […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Some cracking reds to go with your Easter eggs

By Kilkenny Now 19th April 2019 0

NO lambs will die on my account this Easter. It’s not a matter of principle, I just don’t like the meat very much. It tends to be fatty or stringy or both. If you disagree, I recommend Chateau Moulin de Mallet as an accompaniment, a fruity red from Bordeaux (€16.95 in The Wine Centre, Kilkenny). […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: A papal favourite but it’s not infallible

By Kilkenny Now 1st March 2019 0

MOST of us know it as the name of a wine, but Chateauneuf du Pape is also a village near Avignon, the southern French city that housed the papacy when it moved from Rome for much of the fourteenth century. It is a pretty village of stone walls and cobbled streets, spread around the foot […]