Monday, April 30, 2007

Book Review: The Wine Atlas of Australia

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The Wine Atlas of Australia By James Halliday Mitchell Beazley A must if you are hooked on Australian ...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Book Review: The Art & Science of Wine

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The Art & Science of Wine By James Halliday & Hugh Johnson Mitchell Beazley – new edition of a classic ...
Friday, April 27, 2007

Altia signs agreement with Constellation

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Altia Corporation is one of the Nordic region’s biggest wine and spirits importers in the Nordic region. It is owned by the Fi...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

New AVA: Snake River in Idaho

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On April 9 Snake River Valley will officially become an AVA, American Viticultural Area. Snake River Valley is in the state of...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Montenegro joins OIV

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The new republic of Montenegro (previously part of Yugoslavia) has joined the OIV, Office International de la Vigne et du Vin...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Château La Tour Haut Brion ceases production

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The wine Château La Tour Haut Brion will no longer be produced. The wine has a history traced back to the Middle Ages when it ...
Monday, April 23, 2007

St Emilion classification annulled

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Just as we speculated in the last Brief the new classification of Saint Emilion has been declared invalid by a court in Borde...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

”Les 5 Côtes” – and then there were 4...

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Schizophrenia is a common affliction when it comes to reasoning around French wine rules and regulations. Yes, you want to co...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Feminine wine?

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Marketing ploy? For sure. But we find it quite interesting how people try and be creative to stand out a bit from the crowd, so we...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Vinho Verde – distance learning

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Would you be interested in learning more about the Portuguese Vinho Verde? Then you can take the e-course on this Portugu...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Latest news on the catwalk: clothes from wine; or wet-tshirt-competition as an art form

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An Australian researcher has developed a “textile” from wine. If you leave wine in an open container a film develops on the su...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Wine from Myanmar

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More unusual wine destinations: Myanmar, or as it used to be called, Burma, has it’s first vineyard. It’s a German busine...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Wines from the Balkans

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First, we have made a big picture update on the site with lots of pictures from vineyards and wineries in the Balkans: Croati...
Monday, April 16, 2007

Taste Bordeaux 1949

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A little envelope arrived the other day. An invitation to a wine tasting of ’49 Bordeaux. Eleven wines: Cheval Blanc, Lafleur...
Thursday, April 12, 2007

The “original” Malbec travels to South America

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Not surprisingly the Compagnie France Malbec is located in Cahors where the main grape variety is – Malbec. Ghislaine Baltenwe...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Cote de Duras

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Parisians love the accent of the wine growers in Duras in south-western France. To make a sure success of a marketing cam...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

BKWine Pick: 15cent15

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Restaurant 15cent15, Hôtel Marignan Champs Elysées, Paris Hôtel Marignan Champs-Elysées is a new luxury boutique hotel in ...
Sunday, April 08, 2007

BKWine Brief nr 45, April 2007

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Some misconceptions and misunderstandings - “When it comes to budget wines, France is way behind.” Pe...

Even more Provence – new guest writer

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For those of you who are not so good in Finnish, we have even more to offer on Provence: three new articles on our guest writer page, a...

New president of the INAO

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Yves Bernard has been appointed president of INAO, the French control authority for (among other things) wine. Bernard comes from Champ...