Gregory Alken, Febvre Wines, gave an wine presentation and tasting to the students on Tuesday 9th June 2009. With a lifetime of experience in the wine business, starting as a young boy accompanying his Father on wine trips to France, Gregory gave a fantastic insight to life in the wine business and wine in general. The tasting, which was a comparative tasting of 3 flights of 2 comparative wines in each flight. To start with we compared 2 very good, but different wines from the very popular region of Macon in Burgundy, including the Macon from biodynamic Dominique Lafon. www.comtes-lafon.fr We followed this with a comparative tasting of 4 reds – two from Bordeaux and two from Stellenbosch, finishing with Meerlust Rubicon (owner Hannes Myburgh also has given a presentation to the students of Ballymaloe Cookery School two years ago www.meerlust.com) and Chateau Haut Bages Averous (which is owned by ‘Irish Wine Geese’ Chateau Lynch Bages).
A great evening and our thanks to Gregory. www.febvre.ie Febvre are also the national partners of Slow Food Ireland. www.slowfoodireland.com
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