Monday, June 30, 2008

The world's weirdest wine labels

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Someone in Switzerland called wineman (or winegirl) has collected a wealth of more or less odd wine labels: www.winegirl.ch/La...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Two Languedoc producers on video: Domaine de Nizas and Ch St Jacques d'Albas

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Both Domaine de Nizas and Chateau Saint Jacques d'Albas are part of the new wave wine makers in the Languedoc. St Jacques was ...

The world's worst wine labels

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Dr. Vino has created an entertaining (?) competition: Which is the world's worst (ugliest, most tasteless…) wine label? There are m...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

How do you make a wine barrel?

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Perhaps not a question you have asked. But it is actually quite a complicated process that still today relies to a great extend on...

New edition of Fine Wine e-zine

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The downloadable e-zine Fine Wine has just come out with a new issue with various articles on e.g. the Rhône Valley, the new contaminat...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

5000 wine producers in the United States

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There are just under 5000 wine producers ("bonded wineries") in the United States. Half of these are in California, all accor...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Malbec wine from Paris!

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The long established vineyard Clos Montmartre in Paris, just behind Sacre Coeur, must now face new competition. It is the Bretonneau ho...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

BKWine Pick: Cave d’Embres et Castelmaure, Corbieres, Languedoc

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Cave d'Embres et Castelmaure, Corbières, Languedoc To reach the village of Emres et Castelmaure (yes, that...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 59, June 2008 - Summer Wines

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Summer wines In northern Europe they have summer already. Swedes are complaining (or not) about 30 degrees. He...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

EU wine reform agreed

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The hotly debated reform of the wine scheme within the EU agricultural policy has finally been agreed. Albeit a substantially weaker re...
Friday, May 30, 2008

JF Quenin new President in St Emilion

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Conseil des Vins de Saint Emilion has elected a new President: Jean-François Quenin at Château de Pressac. Quenin has an earl...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Vinexpo 2009

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Vinexpo is the world's biggest wine show. It takes place every second year. The next edition will be on 21-25 June 2009. w...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

New counter measures against counterfeit wines

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In parallel with exclusive wines becoming more and more expensive counterfeit wine bottles are becoming a more frequent problem. Much f...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

"Reasonable culture" – new wine competition for almost-organic wines

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"Culture raisonnée" is a form of vine growing that is not quite organic, but almost. They try and reduce the use of pesticide...

350, 600 and 400 years old vines

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Some time ago we wrote about some very old vines in Bordeaux. Vinavisen.dk , our Danish colleague, has picked up on the s...

The five factors that determines a successful vintage

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According to professor Denis Dubordieu at the wine university of Bordeaux there are five main factors that determines the qua...
Monday, May 26, 2008

The influence of the moon on wine racking

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Is it important that you rack the wine in the "right" moon phase? Is wine and cheese the perfect combination? These and ten o...

Some press clippings

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Our latest BKWine wine tour launches have attracted some attention in various places. We are very glad for the mentions. Here are some:...

Wine chemists' conference

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"In Vino Analytica Scientia" is an international symposium focusing on wine chemistry and sensory analysis. The nex...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Sweden and Ireland are biggest growth countries for wine in EU

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Wine lovers in Sweden and in Ireland contribute to emptying the EU wine lake (statistics from EU-15, the 15 countries the OIV...