Tomorrow evening (Wednesday 23rd) is the last day to order your mystery bottle for twebt5.
You might get away with an order early Thursday morning but I wouldn’t risk it.
Do join in!
Posts Tagged ‘wine’
it’s nearly last call for twebt 5
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010twebt 5 with red nose wine
Monday, June 14th, 2010twebt is back! and this is the most mysterious mystery bottle to date!
We don’t even know if it’s red or white this time.
twebt 5 will take place at 21:00 on Sunday the 27th June.
Gary over at Red Nose Wine has chosen the mystery bottle for us this time. You can order it here or you can try our a new feature for twebt.
Gary has a special offer on his website, just for twebt people.
You get a case of 6 bottles, one of which is the mystery bottle plus a special selection of 5 of Red Nose’s finest for €80 plus a fiver shipping.
If you chose to order the mystery bottle all by its lonesome, it’ll run you €14 plus a fiver to ship.
Use the coupon ‘Twebt’ at checkout to get the delivery back to €5
What’s twebt?
It’s a blind tasting that we do on twitter. All welcome, all you need is a free twitter account and the mystery bottle. I’ve lots more information here. I hope you can join us!
twebt 4 a great success
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Our fourth twebt, a blind wine tasting on twitter went very well.
We had about 11 people at our twebtup in the Sextant bar in Cork, and about another 20 people took part across Ireland.
Thanks to everyone that took part, thanks very much to O’Briens who did a great job on choosing the wine and joining in on the night, and massive thanks to the Sextant bar for hosting us.
They did a great job – gave us a lovely area to work in and were brilliant hosts. I can’t recommend the pub enough. And they do pig-on-a-spit!
I’ll have details of twebt 5 soon!
free twitter prosecco in fenns quay
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Fenn’s Quay restaurant in Cork ran a special offer on Twitter this week, where you’d get a free glass of Prosecco or Beer with your meal if you made a reservation by DM (a twitter private message).
As I was heading to Blackrock Castle Wine Club thursday I decided to eat in Fenn’s quay beforehand. I duly made a reservation and lo and behold:
twebt 3 is on!
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Welcome to #twebt 3!
and a not so serious one of me training for #twebt3
ready for twebt 3?
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Are you ready for #twebt 3?
The line up is looking great.
Taking part we have at least:
- @kevatfennsquay
- @brianclayton
- @grayzie
- @broddo
- @omaniblog
- @elainerogers
- @joannaschaff
- @grapes_of_sloth
- @despod
- @denisoregan
- @stephenroden
- @conoro
- @manicmammy
- @cdmoo
- @dailyspud
- @nell38
- @ruggerwine
- @peet_the_tweet
- @smallsips
- @WINECOURSEie
- @marysmithwick
- @rednosewine
- @rfwine
- @winealliance
@karwigwines will be giving us the answers on the night.
you might like to follow all the lovely people mentioned above.
remember to stand the bottle upright an hour or two before the tasting. you might want to open it then too – don’t look at the cork!.
Around nine or so fire up twitter and search for the #twebt hashtag and we’ll all have some fun!
I’m looking forward to it and thanks to you all for joining in !
if I missed you drop me a tweet or an email to brian AT brianclayton.ie and I’ll add you in.
mystery wine from karwig wines for twebt, our twitter blind tasting
tasting in kitzbuhel
Friday, February 26th, 2010I’m on holiday in Kitzbuhel, Austria currently.
I made a quick video of some of the local delicacies.
more when I get back.
and remember, wine is serious business!
twebt 3
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Our third twitter blind wine tasting event (twebt will take place on Sunday March 7th @21:00.
This time the good folks over at Karwig Wines will supply the mystery bottle. You can read all the details on cost and shipping over on their blog. Again, you can either pick up the bottle in the shop, or have it delivered to your door for a very reasonable price.
you can read more about what twebt is here on my own blog.
I hope you can join us for another great twebt evening!
If you’ve any questions you can email me, or contact myself @brianclayton, Kevin Crowley – @kevatfennsquay or Maurice from Karwig Wines – @karwigwines on twitter.
karwig wines trip report
Saturday, February 13th, 2010This morning the Clayton family wine hunters descended on Karwig Wines in Carrigaline.
I’ve been meaning to get there for ages so I was really looking forward to it. You take the Crosshaven road out of Carrigaline, watch for the sign after the GAA pitch and head right, past an industrial estate till you see another sign – follow the road past the houses, carry on wondering if you’ve gone in entirely the wrong direction and you’ll arrive at the shop and warehouse.
The shop itself is relatively small, but has an impressive range laid out by country. As usual we made a circuit or two to get an idea of everything in the shop before starting into the serious business of choosing something to take home.
We were only arriving at Spain having been impressed by Germany and Austria when Joe, the eponymous owner of Karwig wines popped out to talk to us. Joe is a very friendly gent who made us feel very welcome. Overall the atmosphere is super friendly and welcoming. Even the neighbours labrador welcomes shoppers with enthusiasm!
I just picked up a couple of sample bottles, two nice looking french reds and a trademark Eiswein.
I’ll report back on how the wines tasted!
twebt the aftermath
Monday, February 1st, 2010Well, we had #twebt 2 last night. It went very well, I think we had about 15 people actively tasting and a good few more joined in with guesses from the comments people were making.
Curious Wines supplied a lovely bottle of an Italian Merlot. It went down a treat with everyone, I’d recommend it highly.
The richness and complexity threw a few of us well off, but impressively a few people also honed right in on the fact that it was an italian wine. kudos to them!
I made a few short youtube videos for the event.
Welcoming everyone to #twebt:
opening the mystery bottle:
the big reveal!:
and finally one to say thanks to everyone:
massive thanks to everyone for taking part, to @kevatfennsquay and @curiouswines for all the organisation – hope to see more of you at #twebt 3 in early March!