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New Zealand Wine Exports to the USA Broke Record Sales and Surpassed €450 Million

New Zealand Wine Exports to the USA Broke Record Sales and Surpassed €450 Million

Last year, and for the first time ever, New Zealand’s wine exports to the USA surpassed the $500 million (€456 million), reporting a growth of 11%. Philip Gregan, CEO of New Zealand Winegrowers, emphasised the significance of that figure, as the wine industry advances towards its goal of $2 billion of exports in 2020, and

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This Premium Spirit from China just Arrived Ireland and Here's where you Can Taste it

This Premium Spirit From China Just Arrived Ireland and Here’s Where You Can Taste it

China’s most famous premium clear spirit, Kweichow Moutai, made by Kweichow Moutai Distillery Co, is a top quality Baijiu, an alcoholic traditional drink made from a combination of cereals and created without yeast. Instead, a fermenting agent called Qu is used, providing the drink with a completely different taste compared to other world clear spirits. As its

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Brian Walsh Pigeon House

The Pigeon House Chefs Get Freedom of the Kitchen in Unique Restaurant Initiative

Pop-up restaurants have become de rigueur; springing up, creating a buzz, often testing the market for a new idea, and then gone as quickly as they came.  You might have thought you’d seen every possible variation of the trend but chef patron Brian Walsh of The Pigeon House Clontarf has come up with something entirely new.

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O'Briens Wine Spring Fair is Back: 50 Winemakers, 200 Wines, a Great Cause

O’Briens Wine Spring Fair is Back: 50 Winemakers, 200 Wines, a Great Cause

One of the year’s biggest and most anticipated wine events, the O’Briens Spring Wine Fair is back! Limerick will host the fair on May 4th and Dublin will enjoy it for two days, on the 5th and 6th of May. Repeating The Print Works Dublin Castle as the venue for the grand Dublin tasting, visitors

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10 Things Sauv Blanc Drinkers will Relate to on Sauvignon Blanc Day May 5th

10 Things Sauv Blanc Drinkers will Relate to on Sauvignon Blanc Day May 5th

Today, 5th of May, the wine world celebrates International Sauvignon Blanc Day, a recognition of one of the world’s most popular and versatile grape varieties. Festivities in New Zealand, one of the most popular regions for the grape were even extended to a full 16 days of mini events culminating on the main event today! And while

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Taittinger, 1st Champagne House to Plant in the UK | Domaine Evermond

This Prestigious Champagne House Became the First One to Plant Vines in the UK

Prestigious Champagne house Taittinger made history last Tuesday 2nd of May when it planted vines in Kent, becoming the first Champagne house to do so in the UK’s area, regarded as an up and coming wine region which is already producing top quality sparkling wines. The Maison has been planning this incursion over the last few years,

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The Search for Ireland's Best Carvery Started! | Great Carvery of the Year

The Search for Ireland’s Best Carvery Has Begun! Will your Favourite Make it?

This year, the eight annual Great Carvery of the Year competition will determine the very best carvery offered in a hotel or pub across the island of Ireland. The competition is brought to you by Unilever Food Solutions in association with KNORR and since its launch in 2010, the number of entrants has grown and the positive response from the

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These are the Gadgets you're Looking for: 5 Cool Drink Accessories to Celebrate Star Wars Day

These are the Gadgets you’re Looking for: 5 Cool Drink Accessories to Celebrate Star Wars Day

If you know your wookiees from your ewoks and you have strong opinions about who shot first (Han Solo, of course), then you probably know by now that today, May the Fourth is Star Wars Day. We have rounded up some of our favorite Star Wars themed accessories to mark the occasion so, as Master

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Veuve Clicquot To Host Stunning Masquerade Ball at Body & Soul Festival

Channel Versailles’ Glamour at Veuve Clicquot’s Masquerade Ball this Body&Soul 2017

Channel the glamour of eras gone by at one of today’s hottest festivals at the spectacular Masquerade Ball at Body&Soul 2017, hosted by Champagne house Veuve Clicquot on Saturday, 24th June. Guests  are invited to dress up, evoking Versailles’ golden times within the 17th Century Ballinlough Castle where they will encounter mischievous masked revellers and seductive masqueraders. The Correspondents, “Kings

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Lemuel’s Celebrates First Birthday with Gin and Oyster Party – Plus Social Gallery

Lemuel’s at the five star Conrad Hotel has in one short year established itself as one of the most stylish cocktail spots in Dublin and last week celebrated its first birthday in delicious fashion with a Gin and Oyster party. Over 60 guests attended the soiree which kicked off with a Life’s a Peach cocktail

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Mionetto Vivo Rose Prosecco – Wine of the Week from O’Briens

Mionetto Vivo Rose – Wine of the Week from O’Briens Wine

Hello May! Mother Nature drives us towards summer and we impatiently keep asking her are we there yet? Trickster as she is, her intermittent reinforcement keep us passengers on the Emerald Island on our toes, making picnic plans with an asterisk and booking outdoor tables while asking the host if there’s space indoors in case relocation becomes

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Bullitt Hotel

Belfast’s Coolest Hotel Bullitt Reveals Expansion Plans that Target Dublin’s Capel Street

Hospitality giant Beannchor Group, best known for Belfast’s The Merchant Hotel, has revealed planned to bring its Bullitt Hotel brand to Dublin’s Capel Street. The Beannchor Group already operates a number of pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants across Ireland. In Belfast the group owns the five-star Merchant Hotel in Belfast and pubs in Belfast such

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Fancy Becoming a Chef? CLIFF Academy Open Day Takes Place Next Week

CLIFF Academy, situated at the stunning Cliff at Lyons estate in Kildare, is now enrolling for its City & Guilds certified Professional Cookery Courses for September 2017. Ireland’s newest cookery school is the only facility in the country offering City & Guilds certification for its intensive Diploma in Food Preparation and Cooking. CLIFF Academy will

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California Wine

Sales of California Wines Keep Breaking Records and Hitting the Premium Market

In 2016 Californian wine sales hit a new record with an estimated retail value of $34.1 billion. The state shipped an all-time high of 238 million cases to the U.S, up 2% from the previous year. Including shipments to the U.S. California wine sales to all markets, including shipments to the U.S. and exports, got

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House of Peroni

House of Peroni Returns Serving Up Great Italian Menus Created by Great Irish Chefs

Head pastry chef at Luna, Aoife Noonan and pizza expert Michael Ryan are teaming up with critically acclamied Italian chef, Franceso Mazzei to develop contemporary Italian food menus for The House of Peroni which returns to Dublin from Thursday, 25th May to Sunday, 4th June, 2017 at 1 Dame Lane, Dublin 2. The House of

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Hotel Kilkenny Competition

Win a 2 Night Break for Two Adults and Two Children to Hotel Kilkenny -CLOSED

The stylish 4 Star Hotel Kilkenny is situated 10 minutes from the city centre so it is the ideal base from which to explore all Kilkenny has to offer. Kilkenny is a beautiful medieval city with a remarkable collection of well-preserved castles, churches, monastic sites and winding narrow lanes for the whole family to explore.

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