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Nice feature on Feast - East Cork Food & Drink Festival in Food & Wine Ireland.

The week-long event, known as fEast Cork, takes place from 1st to 8th September 2019 and organisers say it will be the biggest and best to date. Based in Midleton but encompassing the wider region, the festival week promises a mix of dinners, markets, demonstration and conversations, as well as foraging, mixology, producers and the heritage and storytelling the region - and the island of Ireland is known for.

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We are very excited to welcome the ‘Celtic Equinox Retreat’ to Ballyvolane House from 23rd to 28th September 2019. Why not join Anne and Suzi, who plan to create a boutique experience that combines yoga, meditation and Ayurveda, along with treks to sacred sites around Ireland. Magali is based in France and has been developing the LYLIS program. This is a tender way to holistically connect with your true self, to discover and unfold your full potential.

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As part of FEAST EAST CORK FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL, we are delighted to be hosting a Bertha’s Revenge Gin Distillery Tour, Tasting and a long-table lunch at Ballyvolane House on Thursday, 5th September 2019.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a fun and fascinating afternoon.

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We are chuffed to bits that Sloe Bertha won a Bronze Medal at the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) awards ceremony in London recently. Hugh thanks to the IWSC judges and tasting panel for selecting Sloe Bertha for a Bronze Medal. We are celebrating!

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Fermoy Golf Club in Co Cork has achieved a very rare, if not unique event in recent weeks. The three 2019 officers, Aileen Ryan Lady Captain, Denis Crowley Men’s Captain and President Paudie Scanlon each scored a hole in one within a ten day window of each other. “There has been great excitement in Fermoy Golf Club over the past number of weeks. I had a hole in one on the 2nd hole in the Men’s Captain’s Prize Day, Paudie Scanlon had a hole in one on the 11th hole and not to be left out, Denis Crowley followed with a hole in one on the 8th green!” explained Aileen Ryan, Lady Captain of Fermoy Golf Club. “We felt as a club, that we needed to celebrate this achievement in some way and so The All Ireland Hole in One Challenge was born!”

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We are delighted to have received this in the post last week - Tripadvisor 2019 Certificate of Excellence for Ballyvolane House.

Thank you to our Tripadvisor reviewers! Big thanks too to our brilliant staff who work tirelessly to delight our guests.

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Justin is heading down to Curraghmore House for [All Together Now Festival 2019 to show and share Bertha’s Revenge Gin tipples and Bertha Love with enthusiastic festival-goers at the Grub Circus Tent which is curated by Joe McNamee. The event is at 5.15pm and we will be sharing the stage with our good chum Patrick Shelley of Ornabrak Gin and Kalak Vodka.

Amazing line-up this year.

Can’t wait. Hope to see you there!!!

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We are looking forward to welcoming Clodagh McKenna and guests from Belmond Grand Hibernian to Ballyvolane House for a foraging trip and a Bertha’s Revenge Gin tasting next month.

Travel Writer Catherine Sabino writing for Forbes Magazine features Clodagh and how she has curated a gastronomy tour for the train. The article is entitled - Travel Ireland’s ‘Orient Express’ With This Cool Celebrity Chef.

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