{"id":2728,"date":"2010-11-23T18:27:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T23:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2010-11-24T08:57:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T13:57:50","slug":"epcot-food-wine-2010-%e2%80%93-bunratty-mead-and-liquor-co-ltd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2728","title":{"rendered":"Epcot Food & Wine 2010 \u2013 Bunratty Mead and Liquor Co. Ltd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who:<\/strong> Nancy Larkin<\/p>\n

What: <\/strong>Bunratty Mead, Bunratty Potcheene, and O’Maras Irish Cream<\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> Saturday, November 13, 2010<\/p>\n

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This was our last Food & Wine event for 2010 – unfortunately, it would end on a sour note… This was the worst beverage seminar we attended, for many reasons…<\/p>\n

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  1. the presenter droned on and on and on<\/li>\n
  2. her presentation was depressing (oh, and did I mention, wandering)<\/li>\n
  3. we didn’t care for the beverages at all<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    so, if you’d like to keep reading after that synopsis… here you go…<\/p>\n

    The presenter focused on pre-Famine and post-Famine Ireland. Dealing with the forced exodus caused by starvation, the slavery of Irish immigrants in the US and the Caribbean (indentured servants were lower than black African slaves because they were free to get whereas plantation owners had to pay for black slaves), the coffin ships where so many died en route, etc… Some of her anecdotes or jokes were okay but they quickly drowned under the weight of starvation, famine, and unjust subjugation. While this was reasonable material, or it would have been if she’d brought things full circle, frankly it was rather depressing for an event at Epcot at Walt Disney World!<\/p>\n

    Perhaps she was simply having an off day… sigh<\/p>\n

    Tastings<\/h3>\n
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    meade, potcheene, irish cream<\/p><\/div>\n

    Bunratty Meade<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This is the only wine from Ireland, 14.7% alcohol; it is made from white wine, honey, herbs, and spices. The phrase \u201choneymoon\u201d comes from the custom of drinking meade for the first 30 days after a wedding – it confers virility and fertility.<\/p>\n

    The nose is clearly honey. The color is honey-toned, rich, and dark. It was very sweet; not particularly to our tastes, not something we\u2019d buy. The presenter said that it was well paired with poultry, particularly Thanksgiving Turkey (?!). Nora is sure that part of her distaste was the strong honey flavor – she\u2019s allergic to bees & therefore rarely consumes honey; didn\u2019t expect the honey flavor to be quite so strong in a wine\/spirit.<\/p>\n

    Bunratty Potcheene<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Now, we had eagerly anticipated this tasting. From what Nora had read, we expected something akin to southeastern US white lightening (moonshine). The presenter said that was what it was similar to – not according to our tastebuds. The nose was nicer than the meade – Nora\u2019s notes say \u201cfruity with a backside hint of anise\/licorice, richer and warmer\u201d and Nick\u2019s notes say \u201csomething food oriented, but not a good smell, maybe rotten eggs or too much licorice?\u201d The color was perfectly clear (think vodka). The taste – Nora\u2019s notes say \u201ca bit like moonshine, but too anise\u201d and Nick\u2019s notes are \u201ctaste stays on the tongue but it\u2019s not a good taste; not so much licorice but the heat of anise; strange that I don\u2019t like it and I do like straight whisky\u201d.<\/p>\n

    O\u2019Maras Irish Cream<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This is a wine based irish cream. The nose was milky and creamy with hints of chocolate and coffee, Nick felt that the scent reminded him of vanilla without being vanilla-y. The taste wasn\u2019t as alcoholic as Bailey\u2019s (Nora), with hints of chocolate but slight notes of \u201cold\u201d cream (Nick). Again, not to our tastes.<\/p>\n

    Kate had warned us that we probably wouldn\u2019t like meade. She was right! While we\u2019re glad that we experienced it, it\u2019s not going to be something that we\u2019d purchase. Lisa told us that she and Andy had tasted a meat dish with a meade marinade and a meade based sauce. Perhaps that would be palatable…<\/p>\n

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    Who: Nancy Larkin<\/p>\n

    What: Bunratty Mead, Bunratty Potcheene, and O’Maras Irish Cream<\/p>\n

    When: Saturday, November 13, 2010<\/p>\n

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    This was our last Food & Wine event for 2010 – unfortunately, it would end on a sour note… This was the worst beverage seminar we attended, for many reasons…<\/p>\n

    the presenter droned on and <\/p>\n

    continue reading Epcot Food & Wine 2010 \u2013 Bunratty Mead and Liquor Co. Ltd<\/a> … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[202,211,204,215,216],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-ticketed-events-2","tag-beverage-seminars","tag-epcot-theme-park","tag-hard-ticketed-events","tag-walt-disney-world-2","tag-wdw-2","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}