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WINE O’CLOCK: Chill out with this sunny Spanish special

By Kilkenny Now 29th May 2020 0

Albarino has become popular here in recent years, in part, I suspect, because it is easy to pronounce. The Spanish white is the perfect wine for the weather we have been enjoying. It is great with shellfish or tapas-type snacks and, lightly chilled, is just made for sipping in a sunny, summer garden. It is […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Cheerful and still pretty cheap

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2020 0

I first visited Portugal in the late 1970s. The country had not long emerged from a right-wing dictatorship. It was under-developed, poor and very, very cheap. We bought a nice bottle of wine in a restaurant for next to nothing, then found one in a café for even nexter to nothing and another in a […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Raise a patriotic glass to Paschal Donohoe

By Kilkenny Now 6th September 2019 0

IN France, Spain or Portugal it is easy to buy a perfectly decent bottle of wine for a fiver or less. In Ireland you can only do this if a supermarket has a struck a deal with the supplier or decided, for some reason of its own, to subsidise the cost. That’s because Irish excise […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: The last of the summer rosé

By Kilkenny Now 16th August 2019 0

AUTUMN is on the horizon, but for the last of the summer wine let me return to rosé, the great staple of barbecues, picnics and garden parties. It used to be looked down on as a sweet summer drink for people who could not decide between white and red. But I read that it has […]

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HEATWAVE: Europe braces itself for ‘hell’, Kilkenny basks in 27C heaven

By Kilkenny Now 27th June 2019 0

THERE are fears many could die in a deadly heatwave engulfing Western Europe this week, but here in Kilkenny we’re set to experience perfect summer temperatures of up to 27 degrees over the coming days. Europe is bracing for an intense, dangerous, and possibly even deadly heat wave this week, with temperatures due to soar […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Turning water into wine spritzers

By Kilkenny Now 21st June 2019 0

I’M a-going where the water tastes like wine, sang Woody Guthrie. Never been there myself. Sadly, I have been to places where the wine tastes like water, but nobody writes songs about them. Generally speaking, water and wine are best kept apart. They shared top billing at the Wedding Feast of Cana – but they […]

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From Lyrath to the Istrian Riviera: Kilkenny hotel’s Easter package named in ‘Top 5’ best value list

By Kilkenny Now 15th April 2019 0

KILKENNY’S Lyrath Estate features alongside Paris, Greece, the Istrian Riviera and a luxury Portuguese cruise in a new list of the top five best travel packages on offer in the country this week. Leading travel writer Pól Ó Conghaile said the Lyrath has “oodles of activities over the Easter holiday”, nothing that an impressive €5 […]