Italian Reds -  The Perfect Pasta Partner ! I just love all types of pasta dishes from traditional tomato based sauces to creamy carbonara. Pasta offers the perfect blank canvas from a sauce point of view. Similarly, from a wine point of view depending on type of dish you can ...

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Italian Reds –  The Perfect Pasta Partner ! I just love all types of pasta dishes from traditional tomato based sauces to creamy carbonara. Pasta offers the perfect blank canvas from a sauce point of view. Similarly, from a wine point of view depending on type of dish you can ...

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Checkerspot Cabernet Sauvignon/Syrah 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon is often referred to as “King Cabernet” due to the fact that a large proportion of the most famous wines in the world are made predominantly with this grape. Wines from...

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Domaine du Fondreche Nature 2007 With all of the current talk of recession, credit crunch and crisis there has never been a better time to learn more about how to find a value wine. Value can have different meanings depending on the context - it can be referring to a ...

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Click here to view the embedded video. In the latest of my video blogs I taste a Chardonnay Viognier from the South of France. After Irelands dramatic win on Saturday I had to do a wine with an Irish link. Check out the video and see ya next time on Robertfranciswine.ie Wine Tasted ...

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Click here to view the embedded video. In the latest of my video blogs I taste a wine from the DO of Somontano in Spain. Lets see how it gets on ! Wine Tasted: Vinas De Radiquero 2007. Available from Cases Wine Warehouse Galway - Approx €9.99 a bottle ...

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Alta Vista Premium Malbec 2006 Despite being one of the 6 grapes allowed in Bordeaux based blends it is in Argentina, not France, where the Malbec grape has not just succeed but flourished. It has singled handed help bring the Argentinean wine Industry into the global marketplace. Similar to what Sauvignon Blanc ...

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Click here to view the embedded video. In the latest episode of robertfranciswine.ie I taste on of the icon wines from the New World - Cloudy Bay. Cloudy Bay helped put New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc on the global wine map back in the early 1980s. Food wise - A wine such as this ...

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Click here to view the embedded video. In the latest of my video posts I am reviewing the Private Preserve Wine Spoilage Prevention Tool. This is the second of the wine spoilage prevention tools that I have reviewed on robertfranciswine.ie with the vacuvin having been reviewed previously - Click Here. I have ...

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Bruno Paillard Non Vintage Champagne A lovely straw coloured champagne with just gorgeous delicate beading to the wine. Just bursting with class ! A lovely citrus, bready nose to the wine ...

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