Programme

The Winegeese


Date: 13 June – 18 July 2005
Venue: Cork City Museum


Project Description:
The Winegeese are the emigrant Irish families and their descendants, who from the 17th century onwards, engaged in the wine trade in the various countries of their adoption. Their names and labels have become synonymous with quality wines in many of the finest wine growing regions around the world.

This exhibition included a Winegeese Portrait Gallery of important wine personalities of Irish ancestry, a unique collection of modern Winegeese bottles from the leading wine countries of the world and wine-related artefacts such as wine vessels dating from the Bronze Age 2300-1900 BC, Irish drinking glasses and decanters dating from the 18th century and an extensive collection of early corkscrews.