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Richie Brady

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DipWSET in wine, Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies, writes about language of wine, historic craft cider, some conference speaking, wine competition judging…Leinster rugby… Ireland

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What if in the 1994… Ukraine hadn’t… in exchange for peace guarantees backed by the USA and others..hadn’t given their nuclear weapons ? Would Russia have invaded Crimea..

Where are those guarantors now ? What are they doing?

Why would Ukraine trust a new guarantee?

18.08.2025 08:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Question 3 -

It’s a beautiful question for kicking off a general chat with wine friends… Sangiovese? Culture history religion power art renaissance beauty soil slopes rock ancestors-making-a-living-from-the-soil taste flavour.
but that applies to so many places
Wonder how the marking matrix was

16.06.2025 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for sharing- very interesting.

12.06.2025 10:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Always interesting- thank you for the weekly sharing etc

01.04.2025 09:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I thought it was the alternative study / library…..

Hummmm that may explain a couple of things….

Haha Great Times

27.03.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, a strong (and fair) stance by her.

Meanwhile here in Ireland, we wine drinkers get dismayed at our government’s playing to the hysterical crowd / hype… as more producers are expected to start to withdrawing from the market.

It’s difficult to import directly due to tax/excise rules….

27.03.2025 08:22 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Increasing awareness ? I doubt people are unaware.
Over-consumption is the issue imo. Same with over-consumption of fast food, ultra processed foods.

Label warnings are a bad idea with very negative impact for small producers

16.02.2025 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Blood type = Blue+ ?

05.02.2025 09:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m confused. What is NAFTA ? How limited is it ?

01.02.2025 00:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Semiconductors ? Well only get half the music

28.01.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s in-date in 194 of the approx 195 countries in the world…

28.01.2025 16:05 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Smallest crowd ever. Period.

20.01.2025 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Have any states ever considered seceding out from the United States ? What would need to happen for California to become a separate independent Country?

15.01.2025 11:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enjoyed hosting a table talk at SommiT sommit.ie (Irish Food and Wine Professionals Conference ) in October about the media and wine, food and restaurants… End of year phone photos
review / tidy up…

21.12.2024 12:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Like history? Beer? What about ghosts that fight with local zombies and ruin the ale drinking festivities at Yule?

Then my latest book, 'Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland,' is for you!

Preorder link in bio and more details in quoted thread.

#skystorians

19.12.2024 16:02 — 👍 34    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 0

Can people who choose to stay in jail, at the tax payers expense, rather than promising not to perform further violent acts for 12 months, not also be charged / invoiced for their stay as well.

Have your opinions, fine. But not to promise to not assault someone ! …

17.12.2024 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Makes sense. And most practical to chisel out etc. thanks for the photo - very interesting

16.12.2024 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Woah ! But the shape ? Why not the ‘egg’ shape etc.

16.12.2024 19:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Finding and following friendly faces here, from the other side

14.12.2024 17:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It stinks

09.12.2024 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just arrived over from that other place. Deactivated it. Same handle. Hope here is nicer :-)

26.11.2024 20:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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