Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 91, February 2011

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This month’s Brief will be a bit shorter than usual (maybe for once living up to its name?) but we have some important things to share with ...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Record price for vineyard in Bordeaux

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A chateau neighbouring Chateau Haut Brion has been sold at a record price. It is Chateau Les Carmes Huat Brion that has b...
Friday, February 25, 2011

More about the book on Tokaji

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In the last Brief we wrote a review of the new book on Tokaij wines, Tokaji Wine – Fame, Fate, Tradition by Miles Lambert-Gócs. We also...

Is it outrageous that a bottle of wine can cost 1000€ or more?

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You can ask the question differently (many do): “should we all be able to buy e.g. classed growth claret at reasonably affordable price...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Must-have thing of the month: remove sulphur with SO2GO

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Some say that the headache you get from wine is due to the sulphur the wine contains rather than to the volume consumed....

Greek winemaker becomes mayor of Greece’s second city

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Yiannis Boutaris was recently elected as mayor (a politically important role) in Thessaloniki, Greece ’s second biggest c...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Can a Swedish resident import wine for personal consumption, without having to go through the monopoly?

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This is a question that pops up quite often, both from Swedish residents and from wine producers / wine sellers. This is a first version of ...

Delicatessen and wine shop in Bordeaux

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We are in no way neutral in this case: Chateau Lestrille is a small, family-owned chateau in the Entre-deux-Mers region i...

Protection against bad times for Armagnac? Condom from Condom…

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Condom is, believe it or not, the main town in the Gascogne region that produces the delicious spirit called Armagnac. It is a three ho...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Freedom to the vines? Should planting rights be abolished?

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A few years ago the EU countries agreed a big reform of the wine production sector. A big part of this was the abolishmen...

Most planted grape varieties in Austria

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According to Austrian Wines / Statistik Austria, Vineyard Survey 2009 these are the most planted grape varieties in Austria. Whites f...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Bordeaux court fines Italian wine producers for economic parasitism

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At the last Vinexpo, the world’s biggest wine fair that took place in Bordeaux in 2009 the Italian wine producers were absent...

More extraction with higher pressure – or lower. Flash detente and Delta Extractys

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Perhaps you are familiar with 'flash detente'. If you are not you should read our book A Wine is Born (unfortunately not yet availab...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Not all yeasts are created equal

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It is common practice to add cultured (sometimes called artificial) yeast to the must to control the ferementation of wine. Just like f...

Portugal dominates cork production

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17 billion wine bottles were sealed in 2009. 11.3 billion (66%) used “natural” cork, 3.1 bn used screw cap, and 2.9 bn used synthetic c...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Fighting vine diseases organically – copper and sulphur the only weapons?

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For organic wine farmers the only permitted products are copper and sulphur, it is often said. That is not quite correct, since...
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At last! La Vigne launches web site

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La Vigne is the French wine magazine that you should subscribe to once you have become tired of consumer wine magazines' superficia...

Very, very old vines

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Many wine producers make a cuvee 'vieilles vignes' (old viners). Old vine wines are often considered to have superior qua...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Spain’s most grown grape varieties

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Which is the world's most planted grape variety? It is a common question in wine quizzes, since few have heard about the obscur...
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”Methode provençale” to make sparkling wines?

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Since quite a few year it has been forbidden to use the expression “methode champenoise” on sparkling wines made with a second fermen...