The New Zealand Winter Wine Fair in Dublin next month will feature wines from the 2013 vintage, considered to be of very high quality.
A Pinot Gris tasting table will also feature at the event which takes place at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Golden Lane Dublin on Thursday 23rd. January. Tickets are available from www.nzwine.com/events.
Casa Silva, a family owned winery from the Colchagua valley in Chile, has been voted Winery of the Year 2013 by the Association of Chilean Wine and Wines of Chile. This culminates a year that saw Casa Silva win Gold and Silver at Vinalties 2013 and Challenge International du Vin 2013. Casa Silva wines are distributed in Ireland by Febvre & Company Limited.
The Winery of the Year Award was presented to President of Casa Silva, Mario Silva Cifuentes and CEO Mario Pablo Silva by René Araneda, President of Wines of Chile and Luis Mayol, Chilean’s Minister for Agriculture at a Wine Gala event.
The Riedel Roadshow rolled into Dublin again this week, led on this occasion by the ‘Pater Familia’, Georg.
The programme was familiar- a round of interviews, a trade and media workshop and an evening sell-out tasting at €90 a pop for a largely corporate public.
Being first in the queue to meet the most publicised wine glass manufacturer on the planet, I asked him what constitutes a good wine glass.
‘Balance’ he replied, ‘and handblown, along with good quality glass and a bowl which tapers inwards to concentrate the aroma of the wine’
‘Not at all- it is an expensive process. More than 99% of our glasses are machine blown, but to a very high standard’.
‘But the glass is of very high quality ?’
‘We use the Ravenscroft formula which dates back to the 17th. Century and which creates a glass with a strong molecular structure’.
The English glassmaker did indeed pioneer lead crystal glass which was noted for its brilliance, clarity and high refraction. So are all Reideel glasses made from lead crystal?
‘Not at all. Lead crystal is also very expensive, it accounts for about 10% of our production but 25% of our sales revenue. That gives you an idea of the price.’
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