Tuesday, June 30, 2009

France lowers the VAT on restaurants

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France has decided to lower the VAT on restaurant meals from 19.6% (the standard VAT) to 5.5% in an effort to stimulate the sector that...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

World’s best syrah

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Syrah du Monde is the competition for wines made from the syrah grape. It is of course held in the Rhône valley. This year’s ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

La Clape becomes AOC/AOP

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On May 29 La Clape was approved as an AOC/AOP. the wines used to be sold as “Coteaux du Languedoc – La Clape” but now they wi...

EU abandons reform plans for rosé wines

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Some time back the EU countries agreed to a big reform of the wine sector. One thing that was agreed was to allow rosé wine t...

Les Echos de Bordeaux

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If you want to practice your French, and read about wine, you can subscribe to the newsletter Les Echos de Bordeaux. Les Echos is publi...

Charity auction in Piedmont

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On 23 May, 2009 Piedmont’s grand Albergo dell'Agenzia, home of Slow Food's Wine Bank, hosted the 7th annual wine & art auct...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Chocolate and vanilla calvados

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At Vinexpo Château du Breuil will launch two new products: First a calvados “Chocolate Blend”, which, if we understand it correctl...

The World’s wine markets by 2030

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The American Association of Wine Economists has chosen “The World’s wine markets by 2030” as the theme for next year’s AAWE conference....
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

French export markets

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The latest export numbers we found was from 2006: a total of 14 million litres were exported (excluding sparkling wines). 58% were red ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The end of the greatness of Vino Nobile? Italian wine bloggers in furore…

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… due to a proposal from the local wine authorities (consorzio) for Vino Nobile di Montepulciano to increase from 20% to 30% ...

Les italiennes montent à Paris - The Italian ladies come to Paris!

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« The Italian women arrive in Paris »… that’s what they did a few days ago. 12 female winemakers from all over Italy came to ...
Monday, June 22, 2009

More wine prizes : women journalists' trophy

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Coup de Coeur des Femmes Journalistes is the name of another competition where we recently were part of the judging panel. Th...

Concours Mondial de Bruxelles – prize winning wines

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At the end of April Valencia was host to the 16th edition of the annual wine competition Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. CMB h...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Valencia: rice and wine – but no paella

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At the end of April I was in Valencia to taste wines, lots of wines. I was there for the big wine competition Concours Mondia...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

The state of the international wine market

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Sopexa, the French marketing agency for wine and other agricultural products, has conducted a big survey called the Wine Trad...

Jack recommends: Coptertino Rosso

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This month I have a recommendation in the ’budget’ range: 2001 Copertino Rosso (6-7 euro). Too cheap for the fine cuisine for the nice ...

Åsa recommends: Cartizze, Desiderio Brisol & Figli

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Time for bubbly. The beginning of summers gives of lots of excuses to open a bottle of sparkling wine. It may be end-of-schoo...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

BKWine Pick: Cave Saint-Marc, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

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Cave Saint-Marc, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon If you want to discover the vineyards of southern Rhône the small town of ...

BKWine Pick: Chai Pascal Bar à Vins, Saint Emilion

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Chai Pascal Bar à Vins, Saint Emilion This charming wine bar opened in the old town of St Emilion a year ago by Pascal ...

BKWine Pick: Château Moulin du Cadet, Saint Emilion, Bordeaux

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Château Moulin du Cadet, Saint Emilion, Bordeaux Another small biodynamic recommendation this month. Classic, quite ...