Friday, January 30, 2009

BKWine grows more than Wine Spectator

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On a very small niche… BKWine TV (beta) is our collection of wine video clips: winemaker interviews, reportage from vineyards...

Biodynamic wines – humbug and witch craft or not?

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We don’t have an answer for you. There are many biodynamic wine growers who make excellent wines, and some who make bad. Just...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Wine – how much more than just a drink? New guest writer: Robert Joseph.

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Robert Joseph founded (together with Charles Metcalf) a long time ago Wine International Magazine and the International Wine ...

Wine sales on the internet boom

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According to research done by PowerBoutique sales of wine over the internet grew with 171% between 2006 and 2007 compared to +31% for t...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

BKWine Travel Stories: vintage organic

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BKWine Travel Stories: vintage organic Millésime Bio is the only (as far as we know) wine fair dedicated to “vins bios”. Bio wines translat...

Miss Wine

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Laetitia Bléger won the title Miss France in 2004. She’s the daughter of a winemaker in Alsace and after her Miss modelling career...

Drink more sherry

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Sherry is another of those wines that definitely deserves to be more appreciated by the wine lovers. Especially the wonderfully dry and...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

BKWine Travel Stories: Is Robert Parker honorary citizen of Chateauneuf

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I wonder if Robert Parker is honorary citizen of Châteauneuf-du-Pape? If he’s not (and I imagine that’s the case), then perhaps he should be...
Friday, January 23, 2009

BKWine Travel Stories: Truffles, truffles and truffles - and Vacqueyras wine

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It's raining, but nothing can change our detirmination to go truffles hunting. We have our truffles man, whos well hidden at the end of ...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

BKWine Travel Stories: around Toulon

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We start the day with Domaine Tour de Videaux in Pierrefeu. Paul Volker (no, it's not the ex-Chariman of the Federal Reserve) runs the d...

BKWine Travel Stories: Antibes, French Riviera

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Yesterday we arrived in a nice late afternoon sunshine and a weatehr that is definitely much more clement than when we left Paris. Antibes h...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Syrah – a French grape variety

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At the Syrah Symposium in May 2008 grape researchers established that the syrah variety is not originating from Greece, the M...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Will copper be the next victim of the organic wave?

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Copper and substances containing copper are frequently used to fight mildew. It is even permitted in organic farming (even though it ca...

Bordeaux chardonnay?

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Can we look forward to soon seeing a Bordeaux chardonnay? Perhaps. The producer organisations for AC Bordeaux and Bordeaux Su...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Wine of the Month: Faustino I Grand Reserva, Rioja

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Criteria: an interesting wine (not too cheap) and one that you can enjoy with dinner or friends (not too expensive). And very good...

BKWine Pic: Restaurant Bissoh, Beaune

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It is not quite what you expect – that a Japanese restaurant has what is no doubt one of the best (if not the best) wine list in Beaune...

BKWine Pick: Pinxo, Paris 1

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Pinxo is run by Alain Dutornier from the Michelin-starred restaurant Carré des Feuillant, just a few blocks away. The decoration is ver...

BKWine Pick: Bacalhôa Vinhos de Portugal, Alentejo

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This is one of the biggest wine producers in Portugal, with head quarters on the Setúbal peninsula south of Lisbon. On the ed...

BKWine Pick: Domaine de la Bouysse, Corbières, Languedoc

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Martine Pagès and Christophe Molinier are both trained oenologists. They run this 50 ha family property in the Corbières in L...
Friday, January 16, 2009

BKWine Brief nr 66, January 2009

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BKWine bigger than Wine Spectator? Well, it depends how you count. We were surprised recently when we saw that BKWine TV had more viewers th...
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