Monday, May 23, 2005

Bettane & Desseauve launches new web site about quality wines

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Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve were two of the leading names at La Revue des Vins de France (France’s leading wine magazine). They lef...
Sunday, May 22, 2005

New top level cooperation in Northern Rhône

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Alain Voge is one of the very best producers in Cornas, just south of Hermitage. He is one of the persons that have led the renaissance of t...

Snow in Hermitage

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On April 16 and 17 (seems like ages ago now) Hermitage had, very unexpectedly, heavy snow fall. For two days we had (we happened to be there...

Miguel Torres, interviewed in La Revue des Vins de France:

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Quote from an interview in La Revue des Vins de France: “We [the wine trade] are going through a crisis. There’s been excess everywhere. In...

Oak chips in Bordeaux wine?

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Oak chips in Bordeaux wine is not permitted today. The new boss of CIVB (the Bordeaux producers’ association) has proposed that it should be...

Swedish opinion about the alcohol monopoly

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According to a recent survey 55% of Swedes are positive to keeping the monopoly, 35% are negative and 10% don’t know. The survey was commiss...

New classification in Graves

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As we have mentioned previously in the Brief the process has started to change the classification in Graves/Pessac-Léognan. La Revue des Vin...

Concours Mondial de Bruxelles

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I was recently part of the jury for the twelfth edition of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, one of the many wine competitions around the w...

BKWine Recommended restaurant: La Fin de Siècle in Brussels

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A nice little Italian restaurant with a very good brochette de scampi and home made pasta. Original and clever strategy with the first cours...

BKWine Recommended restaurant: Trema, Paris 10

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Drink champagne and eat salmon – that’s what you should do at Trëma! Go for a brunch on Sundays for example (18-25 €). On week-days you can ...
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BKWine recommended wine producer: Domaine Joël et Eric Durand

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In the middle of the little village Chateaubourg, just behind the church, in the southern part of the appellation Saint Joseph you find the ...

A Robert Parker rating increases the price with 15%

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Decanter reports that a study shows that wines that get a rating from Parker on average gains 3€ (equivalent to 15% for the wines studied) c...

Irrigation will (probably) be allowed in France

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INAO made positive noises towards allowing irrigation in French vineyards. The proposal means that it would be OK to water vineyards under s...

New rules in Alsace

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INAO has introduced some new or changed rules for Alsace wines: Planting density must be at least 4500 vines per hectare, training must be i...
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Wine in China

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China Drinks, China’s main wine and spirits magazine, organised a competition in January: the 2005 Beijing International Wine & Spirits ...

Calvados

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Calvados is making progress on the export market. This excellent digestif can help you digest a big meal as no other and is also an excellen...
Saturday, May 14, 2005

BKWine Brief Blog on NewsGator

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If you are using a news aggregator to collect information from blogs you can now get the BKWine Brief nes directly to NewsGator by clicking...

Some wine blogs

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Here are a few wine blogs that you might want to take a look at: Spittoon: http://www.spittoon.biz/ Swirl & Sniff: http://swirlsnifftast...
Thursday, May 12, 2005

What's this thing with blogging?

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We had a very interesting discussion this morning with one of the "blogging gurus" in France - Loic Le Meur . (Thank you Susan fo...
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Monday, April 25, 2005

BKWine Recommends, Restaurants in Paris

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L’Avant Goût 26, rue Bobillot, 75013 Paris (M. Place d’Italie), tel 01 53 80 24 00. Booking essential evenings. Good wine list with many org...