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Irish wine production takes place in a small number of vineyards and wine producers the majority of which lie in County Cork, Ireland, with Lusk, North County Dublin, also producing a wine named 'Lusca'. [1] Ireland is officially listed as a wine-producing country by the European Commission. [2]
The Wine Geese or Winegeese is a term used for Irish emigrants and exiles who established vineyards overseas, particularly in France. [1] The term was coined in 2005 by Irish wine historian, Ted Murphy .
Thomas Barton (1695-1780) was an Irish-born merchant who established himself in the wine trade at Bordeaux and became a spokesman for the “British factory”, as the city’s anglophone négociants were known.
Advertising implied the wine was a Russian import, but it was produced in the US. It went out of production in the late 1970s. Two notable brands are produced by the Centerra Wine Company (a division of Constellation Brands). Cisco is a fortified wine with varieties selling at 13.9%, 17.5%, and 19.5% alcohol by volume . It has a syrupy ...
Buckfast Tonic Wine is a caffeinated alcoholic drink consisting of fortified wine with added caffeine, [2] originally made by monks at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England.It is now made under a licence granted by the monastery, and distributed by J. Chandler & Company in Great Britain, James E McCabe Ltd in Northern Ireland, [3] and Richmond Marketing Ltd in Ireland.
Lusca Irish Wine named after the Irish for Lusk, by Llewellyns Orchard, [6] is one of the few Irish wine producers using grapes grown in Ireland. On 26 May 2005, there was an attempted armed robbery of Lusk Post office. During this attempted robbery two gang members were shot dead by gardaí. The total incident lasted 20 seconds.
Hugh Barton was the grandson of an Irish wine merchant, Thomas Barton. He fled to Dublin during the French Revolution, having left the business of his French partner. On his return, he invested in two Bordeaux vineyards. [5] At the time of its purchase, the estate was known as Pontet-Langlois, and was renamed to its current designation.
Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, has been added. [1] ... Inexpensive fortified wines, such as Thunderbird and Wild Irish Rose, ...