Thursday, December 31, 2009

Vinisud 2010, 22-24 February

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Vinisud is one of the big wine shows. It is primarily focused on the professional visitor / wine buyer. It is a very interest...

Study wine in British Columbia

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The University of British Columbia in western Canada runs a series of wine courses as part of their continuing studies program. In Febr...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sex sells cheese

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Maybe they simply thought it was worth a try. For the fifth consecutive year the Association Fromage et Terroir publishes a calend...

New issue of Fine Wine e-zine out

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The e-zine Fine Wine is now out with the fourth issue for 2009. You can download it for free on their web site: www.finewine.n...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Sex sells wine

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No doubt it can contribute to the sales. The producer is called Domaine de l’Abbaye de Saint Hilaire. The monastic style seems to ...

Wine Tech Galleries

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We have, as an experiment, made a few ”Wine Tech Galleries”. The idea is that each gallery, or slide show, will illustrate a ...

Alsace Grand Cru facts

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- 51 ’lieu dits’ (place names) are included in the Grand Cru denomination, covering 1,750 hectares - 914 ha of GC is in p...
Monday, December 28, 2009

BKWine TV: [E] Quinta do Crasto #2 with Manuel Lobo, winemaker

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PART 2 of Quinta do Crasto interviews with Manuel Lobo de Vasconcellos, winemaker and oenologist at Crasto. Quinta do Crasto is in the Douro...

Côte de Bourg facts

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- Some 500 grape growers: 259 independent producers, 171 cooperatuers - 3900 ha vineyards with red grapes, 25 ha (!) with white grapes ...

Côte de Bourg remains in sole isolation?

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Côte de Bourg will not be part of the newly created Côtes de Bordeaux appellation. It can be difficult to understand why one ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The Côtes in Bordeaux now officially married

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There have been five “côtes”-appellations in Bordeaux: Premières Côtes de Blaye, Côtes de Francs, Côtes de Castillon, Premièr...

Wine-filled chocolate, wine-flavoured salt…

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Christmas time is often when we indulge (more than usual) in sweets and other goodies. Is chocolate filled with wine the perfect Christ...

”Bu sur le web” – a (-n amusing) wine talker on the web

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It does require a bit of French, but ”Bu sur le web”, a series of short wine videos , is worth discovering. We are certainly n...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Call for papers for wine economists

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The American Association of Wine Economists has launched a call for papers for their yearly conference in 2010. So if you have some goo...

Do you get better scores in the wine magazines if you advertise?

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Johan Reuter, a member of the Association of American Wine Economists, wondered if advertisers in the wine magazines get a “kinder” tre...
Monday, December 21, 2009

BKWine TV: [E] Quinta do Crasto #1 with Tomas Roquette

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PART 1 of Quinta do Crasto interviews. We begin with Tomas Roquette one of the owners. Tomas is the fourth generation at Quinta do Crasto. C...

How to make gravlax

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This is one of the very luxurious Scandinavian delicacies... Did you say luxurious? 1) It's really easy to do, 2) salmon is not striking...
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BKWine Pick: Jack’s wine of the month: Smith Woodhouse Late Bottled Vintage 1995

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Jack’s wine of the month: Smith Woodhouse Late Bottled Vintage 1995 Forget dry, red, white. In December it should be sweet a...
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BKWine Pick: Åsa’s …. olive oil of the month

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Åsa’s …. olive oil of the month Querce2 The olive oil of the month comes from Tuscany and the partly Swedish...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

BKWine TV: [E] Wines from Portugal #2 with Charles Metcalfe

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PART 2 of the interview with Charles Metcalfe, who can be called the guru on Portuguese wines: on the excellent wine and food in Portugal to...