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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting. Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Wine Lectures, Speaking Engagements and Tutored Tastings. Robin Blackburne, M.W. Robin Blackburne was educated in England and later at Bordeaux University. He spent eight years in the London Wine trade and passed the daunting Master of Wine Exam, http:/ www.masters-of-wine.org. He moved to Bermuda to found the Bristol Cellar, which became the country’s leading wine merchant and which he headed for some 20 years. He is the author of. He is the i...

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting: February 2013

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting. Monday, February 11, 2013. The Author Can't Hold his Liquor. Here is a piece from " Vintage Versage". Robin Blackburne's collection of Comic Verse. THE AUTHOR CAN'T HOLD HIS LIQUOR. When nine tenths drunk I oft compose. Some quite respectable Greek prose. It seems the syntax rings quite freely. Clear as any Campanile. But when it comes to writing verse. I must be sober, which is worse. Than every other known condition. Thus in a state of abstinence. He spent eight years ...

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting: August 2013

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting. Tuesday, August 13, 2013. Verse read at Chateau Lascombes June 1987. Alain Maurel, a dear friend of many years, and the President of Alexis Lichine in Bordeaux, France had been very ill for a long time and unable to run the company. He had had a number of complicated operations and had recently recovered, was back in harness and hosted a magnificent black tie dinner for about a hundred international guests at Chateau Lascombes on the 20. June 1987 during Vinexpo. The Mon...

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting: January 2014

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting. Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Wine Lectures, Speaking Engagements and Tutored Tastings. Robin Blackburne, M.W. Robin Blackburne was educated in England and later at Bordeaux University. He spent eight years in the London Wine trade and passed the daunting Master of Wine Exam, http:/ www.masters-of-wine.org. He moved to Bermuda to found the Bristol Cellar, which became the country’s leading wine merchant and which he headed for some 20 years. He is the author of. He is the i...

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting: Demise or Survival of The Coral Beach Club

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting. Saturday, January 11, 2014. Demise or Survival of The Coral Beach Club. The Coral Beach Club –. Indeed it was further feared that this might be the last tournament. Robin Blackburne, who was the tournament director, composed and read this piece at the Prizegiving Gala Dinner on Saturday 3 November. Happily, at the very end of 2013, a new group took over the leasehold and the future of this great Club seems more certain. Robin Blackburne - Saturday 3 November 2012. Can th...

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting. Saturday, January 11, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About Wine Tastings and Wine Talks. Published in Vintage Versage. Wine Lectures, Speaking Engagements and Tutored Tastings. Robin Blackburne was educated in England and later at Bordeaux University. He spent eight years in the London Wine trade and passed the daunting Master of Wine Exam, http:/ www.masters-of-wine.org. He has judged at several wine events, most recently as a senior Wine Judge at the prestig...

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting: Farewell to Jonatthan Crawley

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting. Saturday, January 11, 2014. Farewell to Jonatthan Crawley. Farewell to Jonathan Crawley. Jonathan Crawley was one of the greatest characters ever to grace Bermuda’s shores. He was an insurance giant and, if one were to be the casting director of a movie about the insurance industry, Jonathan would have been perfectly cast to play the role of the classic O.E. Insurance underwriter. (O.E. = “Old Etonian”). Jonathan Crawley, Jonathan Crawley. Since when you have quaffed mor...

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting: Ode to the Code

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Robin Blackburne Wine Consulting. Saturday, January 11, 2014. Ode to the Code. This piece was composed by Robin Blackburne to replace the informational but somewhat irritating "pep talk" given to the players in previous years at the beginning of the Annual Bermuda International Tennis Championships by the rather officious US former Director of the Tennis Tournament. ODE TO THE CODE. Please remember, don't forget. To buy each day the Royal Gazette. And study well the morning schedule. May catch the tape.