The Wine Geese Events
Next event in the series of
WineGeese events,sees one of Ireland's most gifted and
respected wine writers and broadcasters visit Ireland's wine capital!
Tomás Clancy,
well known Wine Writer and Presenter of the Irish Wine Geese series on RTE's
Lyric FM, will talk about the incredible influence that the Irish have had (and
continue to have) on the world of wine. He will also guide us on a wine tasting
of his personal selection of Irish Wine Geese wines. It promises to be a
wonderful evening
If you would like to listen
to his brilliant four part radio series on the Wine Geese, the link can be found
on Tomas Clancy's website here
A special visit deserves a
special venue and the WineGeese oranisers are delighted to be hosting this talk and tasting in the
Sculpture Galleries Room in the Crawford
Art Gallery in
Cork's City centre.
Thursday
April 25th. 6.30pm Cost: €10
Venue
: Crawford Art Gallery
Booking
is strongly advised as all events to date have sold out quickly.
To
book, please contact Colm McCan on 021 4652 531
or
by email on colm@ballymaloe.ie
Another one for the diary
Thursday May 16th
Venue : Latitude 51
Fleur McCree of Little Beauty,
Marlborough, New Zealand, will retrace her family steps back to Cork in a
presentation and tasting of her wines in association with Maurice O’Mahony
of Wine Alliance.
A Dublin Bay Wine Experience
Thomas Barton wines are sponsoring the one-woman play ‘A Wine Goose Chase’ by Susan Boyle as part of the
‘Bringing the Wine Geese Home’ initiative at the Dublin Bay Wine Experience,
which is taking place in Dun Laoghaire on May 18th and 19th.
‘Bringing the Wine Geese Home’ is a wine initiative, in association
with The Gathering, which will feature wine events and promotions that focus on
wineries with an Irish connection.
‘A Wine Goose Chase’ play is the story of the Irish men who left
Ireland in the 18th Century and established themselves in the wine industry
around the world. It seems only fitting that Irishman Thomas Barton is a part
of the storyline as he established Barton & Guestier, Ireland’s most loved
French wine brand, in 1725.
Originally from Fermanagh, Thomas Barton travelled to Bordeaux and set
up business as a wine merchant. When Thomas died in 1780, his grandson Hugh
took over the business. During the French revolution, Hugh Barton was
imprisoned and condemned to the guillotine in Bordeaux in 1794. He escaped and
sailed back to Ireland with his wife, leaving his business in the hand of his
French friend Daniel Guestier. Hugh came back to France in 1802 where he and
Daniel Guestier teamed up and the brand Barton & Guestier was born.
In the 1830s Hugh Barton came back to Ireland to retire, where he first
bought and lived in Barberstown Castle, before buying some land in Straffan in
Co. Kildare to build his family home, the Straffan house, which is now the
East Wing of the K Club. In the late 1830’s Hugh’s son, Thomas Johnston Barton,
bought the Glendalough estate in Annamoe in Co. Wicklow.
And....the Irish connections don’t stop there! Thomas’s daughter Anna
married Professor Robert Caesar Childers and their grandson was Erskine
Childers, who went on to become the fourth President of Ireland in 1973!
Samples of the exquisite Thomas Barton
Reserve Medoc will be available throughout the performance for the audience’s
added enjoyment.
Tickets €15pp and can be purchased from:
Shorts
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