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Still no sign of Godefroy
...who's supposed to be trying to sell us some wine today.He was last spotted late last night, noodling, with the help of Marta. Perhaps he's still in Wagamama. (Excellent wines there, I've heard)....
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Australia tasting
Wine Australia decided to hold a tasting in Cork as well as in Dublin this year, and we went along to see what was new and meet some winemakers and generally get a taste of the competition's wines....
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The love bug
Ok lovebirds, we have a small something for you. Print out the flyer below and hand it in next time you buy a bottle of our Prosecco-like sparkling rosé from us (English Market or Marina). We will give...
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Salon des Vins de Loire 2007
OK we're back in business, or rather from business. Cyril and I had a very busy few days last week at the Salon des Vins de Loire in Angers - a trade fair in a huge permanent exhibition centre with...
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Here's a non-wine-related post serving only to take advantage of an enormously generous offer from Richard Hearne, SEO expert. He's asked for a bit of information about each of the bloggers nominated...
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The love bug again
Not another plug for our Valentine's offer on this sunny day; rather some seasonal good news and a reminder that we do work hard for your pleasure. We are about to hold a formal tasting of some new...
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Back to square one
Haven't done a jazz birthday for a bit. Charles Kynard today, rare groove fiends. Nice.I don't see our wines mentioned too often on the Supervalu blog (because there isn't one, ahem - (picture of...
View ArticleMixed case
We are, as they say, up the walls at the moment. The start of the year has been pretty busy all round and now that samples, both solicited and unsolicited, are beginning to roll up in significant...
View ArticleA sparkling occasion - the Irish Blog Awards
If you want something doing, ask a busy man, they say. Well we at Bubble Brothers are the 1er cru classé of busy, or thereabouts, at the moment and yes I did leave relabelling the champagne for the...
View ArticleIn lieu of a postcard
www.southwoldgallery.co.ukwww.carluccios.comwww.nhm.ac.ukwww.teddington-lock.co.ukwww.bernithan.com
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Choya sake on the list
In the next few weeks I expect to mostly be posting about the new introductions to our list.Here's one of the more exotic feathers in our cap to be going on with. We have become agents for Choya, who...
View Articlethe fillet of cheese
With regard to the day that's in it, here are two more clips of the Thirsty Trav'ler in the Emerald Isle. Bubble Brothers obsessives may catch a glimpse of the English Market shop.A Toast to the SeaA...
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Down by the Sally Gardens
Thanks to Billy's mum for this link:No need to buy wine racks; you can grow your own! www.windrushwillow.com They sell kits for growing wine racks & coat hangers from willow slips.And, as if...
View ArticleChris Wood at the Triskel
The English have done a pretty good job down the years of annihilating their own folk culture. That's why folk singers are always good for a joke in England in a way that probably wouldn't be accepted...
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Your opinion please - Rioja
Which label do you like best? The same wine is in each bottle - an excellent, inexpensive Rioja that I am fairly sure we are going to buy. Let's call the labels 'classic' (on the left) and 'modern' on...
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Château le Tap - Bergerac
A day of visits, today. Here are M. and Mme. Olivier Roches of Château le Tap, who were kind enough to come down to Cork to let us taste their wines. We enjoyed an informal tasting, and discussion of...
View ArticleOur suppliers
Here's a list of our suppliers, with hyperlinks where possible and reasonably reliable. Please let me know if you'd like any more information. There are of course ways this list could be made more...
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Never mind the bolas
I've been meaning to announce the arrival of Alessandro Speri's Argentinian Malbec, a sumptuous red wine I promised a while ago. It's here at last and I'm absolutely delighted. We stock both cuvées:...
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Paris Hilton to be the new face of Bordeaux
I was away last week, which is why there were no posts. I wish I'd been able to pass this breaking news from Decanter on to y'all on the day itself.
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We've got a live one here
This was going to be a brief plug for last night's gig at Cyprus Avenue to raise funds for the Cork Steiner school, but I didn't get the post up in time. Sorry.A plug too for John Gowan and his...
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Grignolino label 2006
Every year we sell a little of the Pavia family's Grignolino: "the Beaujolais of Italy"(!). The Grignolino grape took a beating from the phylloxera epidemic of the late 1800s, and it's consequently a...
View ArticleIki beer on YouTube
Here's an inscrutable Iki beer advert. We sell Iki only by the case, but twenty-four bottles don't be long going.
View ArticleOust that Roman beverage
...Some folks of cyder make a rout,And cyder's well enough, no doubt,When better liquors fail;But wine, that's richer, better still,Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will)Must yield to nappy ale.Rum,...
View ArticleMoving to Wordpress
It's been a bit quiet on the Bubble Brothers blog this week because we've been absorbed in preparations to move to Wordpress, hosted on the Bubble Brothers website. I must thank Richard Hearne for...
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