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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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Yann Schÿler on Finding the Purest Style of Margaux at Chateau Kirwan

Yann Schÿler on Finding the Purest Style of Margaux at Chateau Kirwan

“When we decide to harvest, we know exactly what is 5 metres below the ground”, says Yann Schÿler, putting in a one-liner how deeply well they know their terroir. He’s the General Director of Schröder & Schÿler, wine négociant and one of the owners of Chateau Kirwan, Grand Cru Classé Margaux, in Bordeaux. He’s the 8th generation of …

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