Monday, August 15, 2005

Wine-On-Line - Some wine sites worth having a look at

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Wine Maker Magazine , mostly for the home brewer, but also for others. Quite a lot of interesting info actually. E.g. How to get oak char...

Commentary: The Swedish monopoly locks out some of the importers under investigation for bribery

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According to Swedish radio and press the monopoly retailer Systembolaget has decided to act against some of the importers/suppliers in Swede...

Book Review: Biodynamic Wines

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Biodynamic Wines (Mitchell Beazley) Monty Waldin This is a somewhat heavy book, but if you are interested in the principles of biodynamic wi...

Book Review: The World Atlas of Wine

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The World Atlas of Wine, 5th edition (Mitchell Beazley) Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson If you want to learn a little about every wine region ...

Wine exports in 2004 – France still in the lead, but only just

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France was still the world’s biggest exporter of wine in 2004 but the distance to the number two, Italy, has diminished dramatically. Here a...

Scrap the monopoly and get more consumer choice, better service and C$200 more in state revenues - according to expert panel

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Ontario has a alcohol monopoly just like the Scandinavian countries Sweden, Finland and Norway. Earlier this year an expert committee was ap...

Californian vintage wine with 15% younger wine?

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U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB) has proposed a change in the rules for labelling vintage wines: the proposal says that...

Michel Rolland hired as consultant for Antinori

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The famous wine consultant Michel Rolland (perhaps most famous to the public for his “contribution” in the wine film Mondovino) has also bee...

Antinori hires Swedish wine maker Helena Lindberg for new venture

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Antinori has recruited the Swedish (!) winemaker Helena Lindberg to manage the Tenuta Campo di Sasso winery. Campo di Sasso has already laun...

Listen to wine radio

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If you have started to get to grips with what blogging is, now it is time to look at pod-casting. But never mind the geek speak. It is simpl...

Scandinavian Wine Fair – 11 February 2006

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And we don’t mean a wine fair IN Scandinavia but one with wine BY Scandinavians who make wine in wine districts all around the world. BKWine...

Wine producers in southern France hand out 400,000 free bottles of wine to motorway drivers

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Tourists travelling on some of the motorways in southern France this summer could get the pleasant surprise of being given a free bottle of ...

French film star and French Bordeaux magnate invests in Hungarian wine

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Gerard Depardieu, one of France’s best known film actors, already owns several vineyards in e.g. the Loire valley (Chateau Tigné) and Langue...

Top quality German wines on auction on September 21-25

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The annual wine auctions of the Prädikat Wine Estates (VDP) in the Mosel, Rheingau and Nahe regions will take place from 21–25 September 200...

Taittinger sold to the US but the champagne returns to France?

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The family owned group Taittinger was finally sold to the American investment company Starwood in a deal worth €2.8 bn. The group includes, ...

Unbreakable wine glasses?

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Tired of fragile crystal wine glasses that break when you wash them? The German glass manufacturer Schott Zwiesel has created a series of...
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Burgundy goes for rosé too

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Even Bourgogne has been struck by the enthusiasm for rosé wines – since it is one of the few wine categories that currently sell very well i...

Rosé sells well – Bordeaux adjusts

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Sales of rosé wine has gone up with 2.8% since the beginning of the year while red wine is down with 2.5%. In Bordeaux the old denominati...

Changed rules for white Costières de Nîmes

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Costières de Nîmes is at the southern end of the Rhône valley on the border to Languedoc. The modified rules for white CdN wine declares: Pe...

The ”discoverer” of The French Paradox honoured with the Legion d’Honneur

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Professor Serge Renaud was given the Legion d’Honneur on July 14 for his research into what has become called The French Paradox: Why is ...