Friday, May 29, 2009

Make your own Bordeaux – live your dream?

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CrushPad started a few years ago in California. It’s a (relatively) inexpensive way to make your own wine. They collaborate w...

Restaurant VAT down

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France will lower the VAT on restaurants to 5.5%. Currently restaurant bills are subject to “normal” VAT at 19.6%. The change will happ...

The Parker Effect (1)

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If anyone doubted the importance of Parker Points (ratings from the wine guru Robert Parker) the story of this year’s primeurs sho...

Wine producer E&J Gallo attacks grocery store in Seattle

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E&J Gallo is one of the world’s largest producers of wine, based in California. The Spanish table is a small grocery stor...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

France sponsors 1000 free wine and cheese parties

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France has launched a campaign in 19 countries (USA, Canada, Spain etc) where anyone who wants can sign up to be a candidate ...
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Bordeaux primeurs prices falling

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Quite as expected (and demanded by many) the prices of the Bordeaux Primeurs (2008 vintage) have fallen. As we reported in th...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Australia is like Bordeaux, but the other way around

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Australia has gained a reputation of being primarily a source of cheap bulk wines and Bordeaux is mostly know for producing w...
Friday, May 22, 2009

BKWine on American radio

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The Wine Fairy, or Wine and Dine Radio, www.winefairy.com is an internet radio station (podcast) that only talks about wine. ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Wine of the Month: Losada, Bierzo, Spain

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Jack recommends Losada, Bierzo, Spanien This month I’ve chosen a wine that without any inhibitions excels in ripe fruit, ...

Wine of the Month: Gini, Gini, Gini!

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Åsa recommends: Gini, Gini, Gini! You never get bored with the wines from the Gini family winery. We’re in Veneto in north-eas...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

BKWine Pick: Restaurang L’Olivier du Clavel, Bordeaux

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It’s just in front of the St Jean railway station in Bordeaux so it’s not exactly a charming area, but there are many other g...

BKWine Pick: Domaine Philippe et Vincent Jaboulet, Mercurol

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After 30 years as responsible for the wine production at the famous Rhône producer Paul Jaboulet Aîné in Tain l’Hermitage Phi...

BKWine Pick: Quinta do Mouro, Estremoz, Alentejo

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Miguel Louro, who also works as a dentist in Evora (and looks a bit like Salvador Dalí), and his sun Luis run this high quali...

BKWine Pick: Quinta da Gaivosa, Cumieira, Douro

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Domingos Alva de Sousa and his son have made it their speciality to make DOC Douro wines (”table” wines as opposed to port wine) in the...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 70, May 2009

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Summer is approaching I was recently in Veneto in northern Italy. That’s the birthplace of the famous amarone wines ...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Livingstone-Learmont wins prize for Rhône bible

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It’s a brick of a book, but then it contains just about everything you might want to know on northern Rhône wines – written by John Liv...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Better sex drive for women who drink red wine

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Researchers at the Santa Maria Annunziata Hospital in Florence have conducted a study that shows that women who drink red win...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

World Wine Statistics: Wine exports: Spain overtakes France, the New World steams ahead

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The world’s biggest wine exporter is Italy with 17.2 Mhl (down from 18.5 Mhl in 2007). In second place we now have Spain: 16....
Monday, May 04, 2009

World Wine Statistics: USA overtakes Italy in wine consumption

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The item that has probably attracted the most attention is that the USA passes Italy in wine consumption in 2008. They now drink more w...
Friday, May 01, 2009

World Wine Statistics: Wine production stable at 269 Mhl

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The total world wine production is estimated to have reached 269 Mhl in 2008. Within the EU production fell: 161.6 Mhl compared to 163....