Monday, May 31, 2010

BKWine Pick: Restaurant Gabriel, Bordeaux

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Restaurant Gabriel, Bordeaux Place de la Bourse is one of the gems of architecture in Bordeaux. As if it needed added attractions the...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

BKWine Pick: Big Easy Restaurant & Wine Bar, Stellenbosch

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Big Easy Restaurant & Wine Bar, Stellenbosch The Big Easy is owned by Ernie Els, golf player and wine producer. It opened in 2008 in a...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

BKWine Pick: Champagne Eric Rodez, Ambonnay

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Ambonnay is a Grand Cru village in Champagne known for its excellent pinot noirs. Eric Rodez owns 8 hectares that he manages according ...
Friday, May 28, 2010

BKWine pick: Château Tournefeuille, Lalande de Pomerol

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This beautiful chateau is in the Petit family since the 18th century. The chateau is surrounded by 17 hectares of vineyards in the appe...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

The new issue of the BKWine Brief is out, #82, May 2010

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Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 82, May 2010 It’s been a busy spring for us – if finally spring has really arrived, and even summer it see...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Wine as an investment - good or bad?

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Every once in a while we read about how good and how safe wine is as an investment. Not seldom it is written by someone who is offering...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

South African wine sales over-takes France's in the UK

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The latest sales numbers reveals that in the UK South Africa sells more wine than France. For the 12 month period to the end of January...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Chateau Montrose buys 22 ha in St Estèphe from Phelan Ségur for 900,000 euro

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My first reaction was that it wasn’t really expensive. Then I realised that 900,000 euro was the price per hectare. Phelan Ségur belong...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Bag-in-box inventor dies

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Sometimes in the 60s Tom Angove came home with a strange construction: a card-board box containing a plastic bag that he had filled with win...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Springtime at Château l’Engarran

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This spring there will be numerous events at the Château l’Engarran in Languedoc, close to Montpellier. The week-end of April 24-25 there is...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The World’s Best Chardonnay

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Such a title always needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. In any competition it is only those who enter that compete. In any case, th...

New book on Barolo

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Perhaps one should start early? On the photo it looks as if the author is hardly over 30, but he introduces the book as his memoir. Or perha...
Monday, May 10, 2010

BKWine judges Coup de Coeur des Femmes Journalistes 2010

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The wine cooperatives play an important role in the Languedoc-Roussillon. 25,000 growers belong to a cooperative and La Fédération Régi...

Bordeaux faces dramatic drop in exports. China comes to the rescue?

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Exports of Bordeaux wine fell with 14% in 2009 counted in volume (1.54 M hl or 206 M bottles in total) or with 23% counted in value. Eu...
Wednesday, May 05, 2010

More champagne!

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Yes, another note on champagne, one on more champagne. The production in the Champagne region has shot up substantially over the last 50 yea...

Who drinks the most champagne?

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It’s not a personal question but of nations. The biggest export market for champagne is the United Kingdom with 36 million bottles (in ...
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Vodka drinkers world-wide

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The world is drinking a lot of vodka. The biggest market is, unsurprisingly, Russia, followed by the USA. Here are the top tipplers (20...
Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Prize winning Graves wines

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Each year the Graves appellation organises a competition for its wines to select the wines that for the coming year will be used as exa...

New Austrian wine region: Eisenberg DAC

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The Austrian agriculture minister has signed a new “appellation“, what in Austria is called a DAC: Eisenberg DAC. The region is located...

World wine consumption and wine production down in 2009

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The world wide wine consumption continues to decline somewhat according to the latest statistics for 2009 from OIV (Organisation Internation...