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Wine Geese and Beyond: Irish Diaspora Excelling in the World's Top Wine Regions

Wine Geese and Beyond: Irish Diaspora Excelling in the World’s Top Wine Regions

Ireland’s Wine Geese is derived from the flight of the Wild Geese, when 14,000 Catholic Jacobite soldiers fled Ireland for France for political and economic reasons after their defeat at the 1690 Battle of the Boyne and the Treaty of Limerick in 1691. They had supported England’s Catholic King James against the victorious Protestant Dutch …

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The Greatest Cape: Rustenberg and the South African Wines Renaissance

The Greatest Cape: Rustenberg and the South African Wines Renaissance

Name a New World wine country. Australia most likely springs immediately to mind, as does Chile. You’ve probably said New Zealand too, and maybe Argentina. Did South African Wines figure on your list? If you’re a casual wine drinker it’s likely it didn’t, or maybe it came as an after-thought. Here in Ireland we have …

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