Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Colours and shaps on labels; Organic in Italy; Emilia-Romagna

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Three other reports (working papers) have recently been published by the American Association of Wine Economists, all of the interestin...

Can you trust wine competition medals?

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Is it a sign of quality if a wine has been give a medal in a wine competition? That’s the question that Robert T Hodgson aske...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Wine of the Month: Chianti Rufina DOCG 2006 Fattoria Cerreto Libri

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This month’s wine by Åsa: Chianti Rufina DOCG 2006 Fattoria Cerreto Libri A spicy wine with long after-taste. On the palate you hav...

BKWine Pick: Domaine l’Oustal Blanc, La Livinière, Minervois, Languedoc

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Domaine l’Oustal Blanc, La Livinière, Minervois, Languedoc We’ve stopped counting all the exciting wineries we disco...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

BKWine Pick: Château Villars, Fronsac, Bordeaux

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Fronsac is not as famous as its illustrious neighbour Pomerol. But it would deserve to be. It is pretty rolling hills landsca...

Calling all wine bloggers: soon time for the European Wine Bloggers Conference

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The European Wine Bloggers Conference takes place on the last weekend of October. It is a unique occasion to meet wine blogge...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 74, September 2009

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The reports we’ve had from various vineyards are generally positive to very positive to outright jubilant. The growing season has mostly bee...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Nitrogen and sulphur makes for more aromatic wines

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If you spray the vines with a mix of nitrogen and sulphur the resulting wines will have a more pronounced aromatic character, in partic...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

What with Cru Bourgeois?

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A few years ago (2003) Cru Bourgeois classification had the same unpleasant experience as the Saint Emilion one: a revised classif...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Swedish wine bar opens in China

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Rolf Olofsson was one of the founders of the Barrique Wine Bar in Gothenburg in Sweden some years back. He has left his homeland (...

The harvest approaches

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According to estimates by Vignerons Idependents this years wine harvest will start early August for the Côtes de Provence, August 23 in...
Monday, September 07, 2009

Fastes growing wine brands

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The fastes growing wine brands on the market in Great Britain are (source: OLN, Nielsen, MAT): - Yellow Tail, +190% - FirstCape, 135% - Ogio...
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French barrel producers create wood appellations

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The French barrel making federation ( Tonneliers de France ) have created a “charter”, which, like an appellation controlée f...
Friday, September 04, 2009

Virus resistant vines

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Vines can be attacked by many different diseases and other evils, e.g. the wine louse, mildew, rot, and many other things. One dreaded ...

Laroche in Chablis for sale

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Domaine Laroche, the big Chablis producer, is in discussions with Jeanjean, a negociant in the Languedoc, about a sale of the doma...

True ice wine? Vineyard plantings in Siberia

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An experimental vineyard of 3 hectares will be planted in Siberia, as an experiment to develop winemaking in northern climates. The vin...

Buy a satuernes: 68 M euro

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But then you’ll get the entire chateau. According to reports in Decanter the (relatively) famous Chateau de Malle in Sauternes is ...
Thursday, September 03, 2009

Starbucks wine bars?

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Starbucks is the world’s largest chain of coffee bars, best known for its selection of odd coffee-based concoctions with odd names. But...

Charity auction in the Loire to benefit research on autism

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Research about autism, that’s what the profit from the auction will go to. For the third time the Chateau Rivau in the Loire Valley org...

The '40%' of Champagne

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40% seems to be a magic, or rather cursed, number for Champagne at the moment, according to what we read in The Drinks Business. T...