Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Book review: Chile: Country Of Mountains And Wines

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Chile: Country Of Mountains And Wines Chili, Pays de vins et de montagnes Chile : País de montañas y vinos By: Papianille Mura (text), an...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Book review: Wine Production – Vine to Bottle

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Wine Production – Vine to Bottle By: Keith Grainger and Hazel Tattersall Blackwell Publishing The book is part of what is called “Food i...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Book review: Hugh Johnson’s Wine Companion – The encyclopedia of wines, vineyards, & winemakers

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Hugh Johnson’s Wine Companion – The encyclopedia of wines, vineyards, & winemakers By: Hugh Johnson, revised and updated by Stephen Bro...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Book Review: The Châteauneuf-du-Pape Wine Book

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The Châteauneuf-du-Pape Wine Book By: Harry Karis Photo and design: Phil Karis Kavino Book Publishing, www.cdpwinebook.com It is a re...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Genetically modified grapes? No thanks, yes please, or let's study the case?

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Genetically modified grapes, or any other crop, is a very sensitive issue in Europe. A trial plantation of GM grapes in Alsace was dest...
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Hard times for wine producers in Napa Valley

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Even in Napa Valley there can be hard times. Some 10 wineries are about to change hands this year and next in order to avoid bankruptcy or c...

Mas de l’Ecriture – a vertical since the beginning

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Mas de l’Ecriture in the village Jonquières in the Languedoc took Vinisud as an excuse (?) to show that wines from the region age excel...
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Clos Centeilles with their unique cinsault wines

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Clos Centeilles in Minervois was actually one of the first Languedoc producers we discovered in the early 90s. At that time they had ju...

Chateau des Estanilles – we meet the new owner

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Château Estanilles is a well-known, no to say famous, property in Faugères in the Languedoc, not least thanks to the charismatic (previ...

Vinisud 2010 - looking back

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Vinisud is the second biggest wine show in France. This year it was on February 22-24. 1631 exhibitors were there to present their “Med...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010

French wine TV channel to become Luxembourgeois?

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It’s called Edonys – the TV channel that will be entirely dedicated to wine. It’s a project launched by Media-Place Partner. the TV channel ...

Crushpad expands in Europe

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In the last Brief we cited an unconfirmed rumour that Crushpad was closing its European operations. Not only was the rumour unconfirmed, it ...

BKWine TV with subtitles coming

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We now have some one hundred wine videos on BKWine TV. Depending on who we talk to the videos can be in Swedish, English or French. Our...
Monday, April 05, 2010

New blog design, with new features

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If you've been here before you will notice that the blog has a new design. Hope you will like it. I've also included a few new f...
Sunday, April 04, 2010

This blog has moved

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This blog is now located at http://bkwineblog.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may cl...

BKWine TV: [E] Ntsiki Biyela winemaker at Stellekaya in Stellenbosch

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An interview with the winemaker at the Stellenbosch winery Stellekaya, Ntsiki Biyela. She is one of the very few black women wine makers i...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

A schistous association

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There are quite a few wine regions with schist soil and many produce excellent wines. Some examples: many parts of the Languedoc, some ...
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Pauillac is most expensive?

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If you are contemplating buying a vineyard you may have an interest in not choosing Pauillac. Pauillac may have the most expensive vineyard ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

New wine department at Galleries Lafayette with focus on Bordeaux

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Galleries Lafayette, the big department store in Paris, has just opened a new wine department. It is entirely dedicated to wines from B...

BKWine on MTV3 in Finland

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We were glad to discover that BKWine was recently featured in an article in the Finnish MTV3 on wine and food travel to France. Our Finnish ...