Monday, August 30, 2010

BKWine Pick: Domaine Gerovassiliou, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Domaine Gerovassiliou, Thessaloniki, Greece You can go to the Greek peninsula of Halkidiki just to enjoy the fabulous nature but you ...

BKWine Pick: Château de la Dauphine, Fronsac, Bordeaux

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Château de la Dauphine, Fronsac, Bordeaux Château de la Dauphine is a beautiful chateau on the right bank of Bordeaux. Jean Halley ow...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 85, August 2010

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This is nice: ”World’s Top Wine Tours”! That’s what the worlds biggest travel magazine says about BKWine. We’re very proud! Travel and L...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

BKWine TV: [E] Domaine Duseigneur part 1, farming the vineyards w Frederic Duseigneur

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview (part 1) with Domaine Duseigneur (Rhone), Frederic Duseigneu...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Yoga for wine lovers

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If you feel the need to exercise or get away from your sedentary life-style, perhaps you should try yoga. The cartoonist pair behind Ha...
Monday, August 23, 2010

BKWine makes "World’s Top Wine Tours" according to Travel and Leisure Magazine

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Press release BKWine makes ”World’s Top Wine Tours” according to Travel and Leisure Magazine Paris, August 23, 2010 BKWine has just bee...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Red wine helps reduce cardiovascular diseases and obesity

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Two new studies have shown that reveratrol, that can be found naturally in many red wines, have positive effects to fight cardiovascular dis...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Discover the Rhone Valley

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Every two years there is the Découvertes en Vallée du Rhône. It’s a gigantic movable wine show. Each (major) village organises a tastin...

Organic wine fair in Burgundy on March 19-20

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For the second year running there will be an organic wine fair dedicated to wines from Burgundy. The first edition in 2010 brought tog...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Bag-in-box – a local phenomena?

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If you were in Sweden you might think that the world’s wine packaging is dominated by bag-in-box. Well over half of all wine sold in Sw...
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The glass bottle still reigns supreme, but alternatives grow faster

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The glass bottle is used in 88% of all cases for packaging (“bottling”) wine, counted in the number of units. “Other packaging” only a...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Asia Pacific the most important growth market for wine

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Euromonitor expects Asia Pacific to be the most important driver of new wine sales. It is expected to have a value growth (CAGR) of alm...

The world’s biggest wine producers = 15% of the total

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There is a handful of very large wine producers in the world, who together represent a quite big proportion of world wine production. It i...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Internet wine sales is marginal but growing rapidly

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By far the most common place to buy wine is in the supermarket/hypermarket. They account for around 50% of all sales (940 M 9l cases). ...

The international wine market: $256 bn, but badly hit by recession

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The world market for wine is worth some US$ 256 billion (2009). In volume it means 3 billion cases (@ 9 litre) – an easy number to reme...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Best-selling wines (in UK shops)

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The list of top-selling wines is not, as could be expected, a particularly inspiring reading. Off License News, the English drinks magazine,...
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BKWine TV: Denis Dubourdieu, one of the world’s best known wine consultants

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New video on BKWine TV: Denis Dubourdieu is one of the world’s best known wine consultants. He is perhaps to modest to cal himself ‘f...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Natural cork hits back

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The English drinks magazine Off License News conducts a survey of consumer preferences for closures since a few years back. the questio...
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3% in France subject to sexual confusion

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Sexual confusion is a viticultural practice that aims to protect the vineyards from insects without the need to spray insecticides. One...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Chateau Rollan de By up for sale

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Chateau Rollan de By is a chateau in the northern Médoc that has in recent years acquired a certain fame, no doubt not to an insignificant d...