Friday, October 31, 2008

Will champagne hit the wall?

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Carol Duval-Leroy, owner of Champagne Duval-Leroy, producing some 6 million bottles per year, is worried about the future wit...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Chapoutier expands in Portugal and/or Beaujolais

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The famous Rhone wine producer Michel Chapoutier was on the brink of signing the deal to acquire a 15 ha property in Beaujola...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Youthful American MW to pull for French wines

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Sopexa is the name of a French marketing and promotional organisation focusing on wine (and other agricultural products). for example, ...

The owner of Ch Carbonnieux dies

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Anthony Perrin, owner of Chateau Carbonnieux in Pessac-Léognan / Graves, died in September of lung cancer aged 68. It was his...

Didier Dagueneau dies in flight crash

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Didier Dagueneau was a winemaker in Pouilly-sur-Loire (Pouilly-Fumé wines) who has contributed much to putting Pouilly more c...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Bordeaux voted most popular wine tour destination

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The 7 million members of TripAdvisor.com have selected the world’s most popular wine tour destination. On top came Bordeaux, ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Book on Portuguese wines wins prestigious prize

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”The Wine & Food Lover’s Guide to Portugal” is an excellent book onn Portuguese wines and wine districts full of tips and...
Monday, October 20, 2008

New issue of the ezine Fine Wine

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A new issue of the internet magazine Fine Wine has been published. In it you can read about e.g. Domaine Bertagna in Burgundy and about...

New wine video on Madiran

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We have published a new wine video on the Madiran district in the south-west of France. It is a region that has undergone som...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Top ten wines at Systembolaget

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Systembolaget is the monopoly wine retailer in Sweden and (as a consequence) one of the largest wine and spirits retailers in...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

BKWine in Alsace on French television

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When we recently were in Alsace the big French television channel France 2 took the occasion to make a program for its News at One (Jou...

Fifteen new Masters of Wine

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Master of Wine, MW, is a very prestigious title in the wine world. It is only held by 227 people today. The latest “promotion...
Monday, October 13, 2008

BKWine Brief nr 63, October 2008 out - more on the harvest etc

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Help us find more subscribers. The more people who read the Brief, the more fun it is to write it. If you enjoy reading it...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Barca Velha 2000 – a new release of a mythical Portuguese wine

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Barca Velha was long thought of as the only Portuguese table wine in the top quality echelons. Today, there is much more company in tha...
Monday, October 06, 2008

Avignonesi in Tuscany sold to Belgian investor

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One of the top producers in Montalcino In Tuscany has been sold to the Belgian business woman Virginie Saverys. The Falvi family will r...
Friday, October 03, 2008

Beaucastel buys Tourelles in Gigondas

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Or to be more precise, the Perrin family, owners of the famous Domaine de Beaucastel in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, has bought the D...

Champagne harvest started on September 15

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On September 15 the harvest began in Champagne. They have had a cool but reasonably dry summer so the expectations are for a comparativ...

Truffles and Pata Negra? - “It doesn’t get much better!”

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For sure, it makes you happy. We launched the BKWine spring travel program last week and it’s always nice if someone notices it, e...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Draught in California

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California is seeing the lowest water levels in 30 years in some of its water reservoirs. If the lack of rain continues 2009 is likely ...

2008 – hot and dry in Roussillon

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Many European wine regions have had a cool and dreary summer, even if it has not been too wet. Almost the opposite is the cas...