Tuesday, August 16, 2011

South Africa’s biggest export markets

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Here are the top export markets for South African wines: UK 104 million hectolitre Germany 72 Mhl ....... This new blog post is now a...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

Half a million hectares of vineyard land for sale

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If you are really aiming to be a volume producer this might be your chance. 989,000 acres, around half a million hectares, of land is for ...
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Friday, August 05, 2011

So how did the Bordeaux primeurs 2010 taste?

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Tasting primeurs is not as difficult as it is sometimes said. Wines that young, just barely six months after harvest (tasted in April), ca...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

2,000,000 visitors on BKWine.com

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Congratulations dear visitor number 2,000,000 on BKWine.com. The site recently counted its two millionth visitor! Statistics on the intern...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

10 microbes that you may (or may not) want in your wine

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There are many different types of microbes (minuscule organisms) that contribute to making the wine into what it is. Many of them are de...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Le Bistro de l’Hôtel de Beaune – BKWine Pick

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A newly opened bistro-chic owned by Swede Johan Björklund, previous owner of London based wine company Cave Cru Classé. But Johan started ...
Saturday, July 09, 2011

Midsummer – the peak of Scandinavian boozing

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This new blog post is now available on our NEW BLOG LOCATION : Midsummer – the peak of Scandinavian boozing . Please think of changing you...
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Thursday, July 07, 2011

La Chablisienne – a high quality cooperative

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This post on the cooperative in Chablis is now available on our NEW BLOG LOCATION : La Chablisienne – a high quality cooperative on BKWine M...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Vine planting rights: a return to protectionism?

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A few years back all EU countries agreed to a reform of the agricultural policies concerning the wine sector. One element was to abolis...

Mas du Soleilla, La Clape, Languedoc

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Soleilla means sun in Occitan, the ancient language langue d'oc. Mas de Soleilla is beautifully situated, close to the s...
Friday, June 03, 2011

Well-crafted writing online on wine: Born Digital Wine Awards

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The Born Digital Wine Awards is a “competition” for writers, and video producers, professional or not, on the internet. The first edition of...

Interesting interviews with top chateaux in Bordeaux

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I’m not quite sure why they have done it but it is a very ambitious effort. The Swedish wine importer Hjo Grosshandel has published a d...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Vineyard area in Austria

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Austria has around 46,000 hectares of vineyards. That is roughly one third of Bordeaux (and some). There are four main regions: Burgenland, ...

Italy world's largest wine exporter, followed by Spain and France

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According to the latest statistics from the OIV Italy is the world’s largest wine exporter. 20.6 Mhl went to the international wine mar...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

High Constantia, South Africa

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At High Constantia winemaker David van Niekerk makes an exceptional Cap Classic (sparkling wines made by the traditional method) that gets a...

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 94, May 2011

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The competition in the wine world today is tough whatever the price segment. It means a lot to have your wines or your domaine mentioned in ...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

A short story on travelling in Champagne, Chablis and Burgundy

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Quite a few kilometres over three days, that’s what you get if you come on our “Three Classics” tour. And quite a few wine producers and win...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Why we don’t see more videos with Jancis Robinson, or wine tasting is not a spectator sport

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Jancis Robinson is one of the wine world’s super-stars. She recently published a new video with herself, one of only two she has made with h...
Monday, May 23, 2011

The US overtakes France as the biggest wine consumer

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As expected, the USA as overtaken France as the biggest wine consuming nation in the world, according to a report by Gomberg, Fredrikson ...