Saturday, April 30, 2011

Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 93, April 2011

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Our new site on wine travel is now up and running. All information about our wine tour activity will in the future be found on www.bkwinetou...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Wine tours brochures now available for download

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The wine tours this coming autumn have now downloadable e-brochures. You can download the pdf and print it or share it with your friends on ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

A six-Michelin-star dinner!

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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 6t...

France’s best sommelier competition now open for entrants

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Every two years the French sommelier organisation (UDSF, l’Union de la Sommellerie Français) organises a competition for young wine wai...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

CIVB on the 2010 vintage in Bordeaux

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Beautiful and sunny summer and an exceptional autumn gave us a very successful vintage in the whole of Bordeaux. Good maturity and fine...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Bordeaux plans for the future - CIVB's view

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Georges Haushalter, the president of the CIVB (Conseil Interprofessionel du Vin de Bordeaux) was in Paris recently to talk about the ne...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The strange story of the Languedoc classification

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Is the purpose of a classification to benefit the consumer or to benefit the producer? That is one of the questions one can ask when re...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Champagne Brut Nature – the new trend?

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Dry champagne goes under the name of ‘brut’ (French for raw, unprocessed). Half-sweet and sweet are, confusingly, called sec and demi-s...

UK is biggest export market for South African wine, Sweden in third place

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The United Kingdom is by far the biggest market for South African wine exports. A bit more surprising is perhaps that Sweden, with only...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The French catch the bag-in-box bug: 25% of wine sold in Bib

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2.23 million litres of wine was sold in bag-in-box in the big retail chains in France in 2009. This represents 24.4% of the volume! It ...

Lavinia opens new shop in Paris

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It is not an exaggeration to say that Lavinia has revolutionised the wine shop scene in Paris. Their wine shop is very centrally located, cl...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Three new French appellations: Fiefs Vendéens, Côtes-du-Brulhois and Gros plant du Pays Nantais

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The story starts with the reform of the French appellation system. Since a long time back there has been a small intermediate group called V...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Growing Gruner - part 4: Still not a sign of life...

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Still not a sign of life on my cuttings from gruner veltliner that I got at the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Vienna last October. ...
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Bordeaux Primeurs, part 4: tasting notes on some 2010s

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Some interesting wines of vintage 2010. Some new names, worth remembering. Château Puygueraud, Francs – Côtes de Bordeaux Very fruit...

Bordeaux Primeurs, part 3: A head start with Stéphane Derenoncourt

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We tasted primeur wines already this week (last week, when this comes on the blog) here in Paris. Monday this week Bordeaux consultant ...

Bordeaux Primeurs, part 2: wines difficult to taste

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It is not easy to taste the primeur wines and judge the potential quality and taste. Bordeaux is a wine blended from different grape va...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Bordeaux Primeurs, part 1: Let the circus begin, ed. 2010

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The week of the primeur tastings in Bordeaux is approaching fast. Next week it starts (first week of April - current week when this is ...
Monday, April 04, 2011

Publish and be damned! Or should we have a plan economy for Bordeaux wines?

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In an article last week Jancis Robinson advocated a freeze period for comments and reviews on wines tasted at the Bordeaux primeur circ...

Germany’s most popular white grapes

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Here is the list of the most popular white wine grape varieties in Germany, counted in volume: - Muller thurgau, 14% - Riesling, 13% - G...

”World’s Best Wine Book for Professionals 2010” is awarded to BKWine for The Creation of a Wine! - from the press release

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We are immensely proud! This is the beginning of the press release: “The Swedish wine book “The Creation of a Wine” was awarded the prize “...