Thursday, December 30, 2010

BKWine Pick: Domaine Senat, Minervois

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Fifteen years ago Jean-Baptiste Senat moved from Paris to Minervois in the Languedoc. He started with just a few hectares, now he has 1...

BKWine Pick: Mas Zenitude, Terrasses du Larzac, Languedoc

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Being Swedish ourselves we always find it interesting to meet Swedish winemakers. Like Erik Gabrielsson, whom we met in September at hi...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

13 things we remember from 2010 - New BKWine Brief out!

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Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 89, December 2010 Click for the new Wine Tour program! Click to recommend to a friend! 201...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Born Digital Wine Awards – a new prize for online wine communications

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The Born Digital Wine Awards was launched at the European Wine Bloggers Conference (#EWBC) and is organised by the same people who are behin...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Diluted wine of fruity wine? Must concentration – what should or should you not do? Boil the must in a vacuum?

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If it rains just before the harvest you risk getting a diluted must. The grapes suck up the water and becomes inflated with water. ther...

European Wine Bloggers Conference #EWBC

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Earlier this autumn we participated in the European Wine Bloggers Conference (#EWBC in hash tag twitter-speak). Two hundred participant...

Rural sales of locally produced wines and spirits to be allowed in Sweden?

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There is currently a debate raging in Sweden on an issue that seen from the outside seems peripheral to say the least. Nevertheless it ...

How much does it cost to buy a vineyard? Well, between 14,000 and 1 M euro per hectare

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Vineyard land prices vary enormously. Recently these difference have been accentuated rather than diminished. César Compadre writes in ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Dramatic cuts in production in Beaujolais

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Many wine producers have hard times. For many in Beaujolais it is not only hard but very tough. There is too much Beaujolais wine made ...

Learn more about wine in Denver

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The International wine guild is a wine school for those who are interested in studying wine to become a professional – sommelier, wine trade...

Christmas gift tip for the champagne fanatic: The Champagne Warrior

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Slightly more affordable than Pieper-Heidsieck (see other item in this Brief) is The Champagne Warrior. Brad Baker is the self-appointe...

Christmas gift tip: champagne for sale

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Piper-Heidsieck and Charles Heidsieck are two champagne houses both belonging to Remy Cointreau SA. According to Bloomberg, Remy is now look...
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Monday, December 20, 2010

Generational Farming at Fox Creek Wines, McLaren Vale

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Paul Rogers from Fox Creek in McLaren Vale in Australia visited Sweden recently and as we don’t often have the opportunity to meet Australia...

New (old) site about Austrian wines

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Most “generic” wine sites, i.e. sites done by various regions marketing organisations, are generally not much to write home about (or o...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Children’s book about wine published in France

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Is it the path towards total deprivation and alcoholism? Or is it quite the opposite? The book editor Emmanuele Garci at Editions Mama Josef...

Bordeaux Crus Artisans is back?

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Last month we talked about the revived (and strange) Cru Bourgeois classification-but-not-classification in Bordeaux. This month it’s time f...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Russian wine producer buys vineyard in Languedoc

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The Russian wine company Gerrus Group has bought a vineyard in the Languedoc region in France. Chateau des Deux Rocs is a 20 ha property in ...

Norwegian aquavit to become a protected denomination

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The Norwegian government is in the process of introducing rules that will make the name “Norwegian aquavit” (norsk akevitt) a protected deno...

Le Grand Tasting in Paris on December 10 and 11

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Le Grand Tasting is the strange name of a consumer wine show in Paris that will take place on December 10 and 11. It is one of the more ‘ser...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Is there something wrong with the wine, sir?

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It is not only the cork that can cause problems or “faults” with the wine. There is a whole range of things that can be a wine bad, or at le...
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