Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland - A History of Ireland's Love Affair with Claret fine wine bordeaux Syrah 45% Vintage: 2021

Syrah 45% Vintage: 2021

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Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland - A History of Ireland's Love Affair with Claret fine wine bordeaux Syrah 45% Vintage: 2021Just released in April 2022, and based on extensive research from national collections and recent studies, this book looks at Ireland's love affair with claret in the eighteenth century which began in earnest with the establishment of Irish families in the wine trade in Bordeaux early in the century. So much red wine from Bordeaux was being consumed by Ireland's nobility and gentry that Jonathan Swift referred to it as 'Irish wine,' in the full