by irishguild | Aug 30, 2012 | Home, Tastings
by irishguild | Aug 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Everything You Need To Know About Cachaça To drink cachaça is to swallow a mouthful of Brazilian history. This 100 percent Brazilian cane sugar liqueur or eau-de-vie is a national staple. From the first hours of colonization to independence in the early 19th century,...
by irishguild | Aug 25, 2012 | Home
THE chateau producing Napoleon’s favourite red wine, which is one of Burgundy’s most prized vineyards, has been sold to a Chinese gambling tycoon, leading to dire warnings from local growers of a “foreign invasion” of mainly Asian investors....
by irishguild | Aug 20, 2012 | Home
Patrick Ricard, chairman of Pernod Ricard, the world’s second biggest spirits company, has died at the age of 67. Patrick Ricard was a member of the founding family and had chaired Pernod Ricard since 1978...
by irishguild | Aug 17, 2012 | Home
CHAMPAGNE is suffering its worst grape-growing season in decades because of an “unprecedented” blight of frost, hail and disease. Weather conditions and the ravages of mildew have made growers’ lives hell in recent months; cold snaps, freak...