Friday, November 12, 2010

World’s biggest cooper: Seguin Moreau (part 1): The Oeneo Group

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If you want to be exact, the world’s biggest cooper brand, for barrels from French oak, is Seguin Moreau. There are bigger barrel makers, e....
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Organic products grow with 50% at the Swedish alcohol monopoly

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Systembolaget , Sweden’s retail monopoly for alcohol, reports an increase in sales of 50% for organic products, including wine, for the thir...
Monday, November 08, 2010

The Chinese wine market: a specialists’ blog

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Many wine producers are betting the future on the Chinese wine market these days. The export sales to most countries are weak, but Chin...
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Food photography festival in Paris 29 Oct – 14 Nov

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The International Festival of Culinary Photography (Festival International de la Photographie Culinaire) will take place for the second year...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

French wine TV relocates to Luxemburg

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Edonys is the cryptic name of a new television channel that will be entirely dedicated to programs about wine. The channel was created ...
Friday, November 05, 2010

Cognac Renault acquired by Altia from Pernod Ricard for € 10 M

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Cognac Renault is a brand that is mainly known on the Scandinavian market. Best known is the premium brand Renault Carte Noire, popularly ca...
Thursday, November 04, 2010

New Cru Bourgeois ”stamp” launched (4): Chateau la Tour de By renounces the Cru Bourgeois label

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The first reaction among the producers to the new Cru Bourgeois label has come quickly. According to a press release from Chateau la T...
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

New Cru Bourgeois ”stamp” launched (3): and the winners in 2008 are…

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The very first promotion of Cru Bourgeois labels have just been awarded – for the 2008 vintage. 290 chateaux were candidates but only 243 ch...

New Cru Bourgeois ”stamp” launched (2): How will it work? Will it work?

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Will this be useful for the consumers? Very doubtful. On the other hand there are several questions: How will a wine consumer know if a...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

New Cru Bourgeois ”stamp” launched (1): new rules

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In the olden times there was something called the Cru Bourgeois classification in Médoc (Bordeaux). But then, in 2003, they decided to...
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Wine of the Month - Åsa's Pick: Dolcetto d’Alba, Bric Trifula 2009, Cascina Luisin

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Dolcetto d’Alba, Bric Trifula 2009, Cascina Luisin This is an elegant food wine at a very reasonable budget: Dolcetto d’Alba from the...
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Monday, November 01, 2010

BKWine Pick: Coffele, Soave, Italy

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Coffele, Soave, Italy Soave is probably the most well-known white wine in Italy. The small and very pretty medieval town of Soave in situa...

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 87, October 2010

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Harvest is soon over, but not quite yet. Some wine regions are still picking grapes and will continue into November. And even later for some...
Friday, October 29, 2010

We have won the prize for best wine book of the year!

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We have just won the prize for BEST WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR for our book on wine growing and winemaking!! We are so happy and proud! Champagn...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

”It’s raining Swedes” in South Africa

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Niel Pendock (twitter @NielPendock ) thinks ’it is raining Swedes’ in his column in TimesLive.co.za. There are no less than three qual...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Belgium wins international wine tasting competition

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Belgium emerged winner in the wine tasting competition organised by the French magazine La Revue du Vin de France. Curiously, the winne...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Luxury DRC wines from 2006 to be released in Sweden at bargain prices on October 19

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The Swedish retail monopoly Systembolaget has announced that they will release the long awaited lot of wines from the Domaine de la Ro...

Domaine Turner Pageot in Languedoc goes video viral

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Domaine Turner Pageot is a small wine estate in the village of Gabian not far from Béziers in the Languedoc. Karen Turner from Australi...
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New wine museum in Barolo

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Earlier in September a new wine museum opened in Barolo in Piedmont. It is, not surprisingly, called WiMu. It has been designed by the famo...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Languedoc wine auction on October 24

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On October 24 there will be a great auction of Languedoc wines in Pic Saint Loup, one of the most interesting sub-regions in the Langue...