Thursday, March 31, 2011

Is the market for Bordeaux wine a market economy or should it be a plan economy?

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Jancis Robinson , the heavy-weight British wine critic, wrote an article last week about the imminent Bordeaux Primeurs circus called “Borde...
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Dîner des Chefs at Park Hyatt Paris Vendôme

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I went to a very interesting dinner the other day, the Dîner des Chefs at Park Hyatt Paris Vendôme. The dinner was organised for the 6th tim...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Growing Gruner - part 3: I'm getting worried.

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Continuing the story of growing a gruner veltliner vine from cuttings that I received at the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Vienna. ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

How to dig a deeper and deeper hole. Or: "A Prima Donna shouts too loud"? - A Portuguese challenge

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First of all I want to apologise to all my Portuguese friends, winemakers and others. And to all other who love Portugal and its wines. I ...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

An experience in how not to market Portuguese wines: the 1st International Wine Meeting and Tasting (in Portugal)

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This post is really a comment on a blog post by Luiz Albert over at The Wine Hub, but for some mysterious reason the full commentary refuses...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Growing Gruner - part 2: tiny, tiny roots?

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After about 5 days in water there is maybe, maybe the beginning of tiny roots on the gruner veltliner cuttings. I've had to change the w...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The name of the vineyard and the soil is more important than the grape variety in Burgundy, according to BIVB

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Representatives from BIVB - Bureau Interprofessionel des Vins de Bourgogne – were in Stockholm recently and BKWine took the opportunity...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Premium wines from Trivento in Mendoza

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We recently had the occasion to taste a range of premium wines from Trivento in Mendoza, Argentina. The wines have just been launched in the...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Growing Gruner - part 1: in water

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This is not at all about 'green' vine growing. It's about gruner veltliner, the star white grape variety of Austria. Last Nove...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Tasting 20 years of Vacqueyras: 1989-2009

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-- Vacqueyras 1989 Signature Domaine des Amouriers Mature, long taste with aromas of the garrique and some dried fruit. Very well pre...

Happy 20 Year Anniversary, Vacqueyras!

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The AOC Vacqueyras is celebrating its 20th birthday. It was in 1990 that Vacqueyras was upgraded to an Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée....
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Towards a European definition of organic wine: CEVinBio?

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Last year the EU project to agree on a definition of what “ organic wine ” would be was discarded. There was too much disagreement on w...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Wine in Istria in Croatia. And food.

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A short updated on what we saw, drank and ate on our recent wine and food trip to Istria in northern Croatia on our Travelog. Lots of int...

Britt's Wine of the Month Mas Louise 2009, Cotes du Rhône

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Britt's Wine of the Month Mas Louise 2009, Cotes du Rhône This is a new wine from an established producer. For around 9 euro you...

Åsa's Wine of the Month: Rosso San Leopardo, Colli Maceratesi Rosso, DOC Riserva 2005. Producent: Cantine Belisario

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Åsa's Wine of the Month Rosso San Leopardo, Colli Maceratesi Rosso, DOC Riserva 2005. Producer: Cantine Belisario. Rosso San Leopardo...

We won the prize World's Best Wine Book for Professionals!

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We have just been awarded the prize "World's Best Wine Book for Professionals" by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris....
Thursday, March 03, 2011

BKWine Pick: La Régalade Saint Honoré, Paris 1

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La Régalade Saint Honoré, Paris 1 You are treated to the chef’s home made paté with cornichons as soon as you sit down at your table....
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

BKWine Pick: Louis Sipp, Ribeauvillé, Alsace

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Louis Sipp, Ribeauvillé, Alsace Louis Sipp makes dry and elegant Alsace wines from grapes grown organically since a few years back. H...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Wine tours on the schedule for autumn 2011

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"World's Best Wine Tours" - Travel + Leisure Magazine, on TravelAndLeisure.com BKWine offers you two possibilities to go wi...