Country forecast 2008, ‘000 quintals in %
(quintal=100kg)
Country (forecast for Mha 2008, % of total)
Yarra Yering is a highly regarded vineyard in the Yarra Valley. The wine is primarily sold on export, much of it to Europe. The vineyard extends over 26 ha. According to press reports it is up for sale. The deal is not yeat confirmed but the prices is estimated to around AUS$ 5 million. decanter.com
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The famous chef school in Paris launches a sommelier course this autumn. The wine steward training starts on September 7 and goes on until May 15 2010. The course includes both theory and practice. You can even register online for the course. More info www.cordonbleu.edu
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- 2008 Duo (barrel sample): powerful, cocoa and chocolate, elegant, “aérienne”, good structure
- 2008 La Conseillante (barrel sample): powerful, lots of warm fruit, round, cassis (black currants), warm barrel aging style without being exaggerated, long, hot
- 2007 Duo (first year of production): compact, warm, lots of cassis, more substance than the ’08, good structure, balanced oak, classic and elegant.
- 2007 La Conseillante: small nose, elegant, discrete toasted oak, quite a lot of tannin, restrained but very elegant
- 2005 La Conseillante: open, developed nose with cedar wood, warm fruit and truffles. Powerful, lots of tanning, elegant, warm, young (of course). Long finish.
- 2001 La Conseillante: lighter, more delicate, very elegant. More young fruity berries in style. High acidity, more “red fruit” style. A bit angular. Needs time? “Very good” (Laporte)
- 2000 La Conseillante: warm, powerful but rounded, leather, maturity. Classic, cedar wood. Drinking very nicely now. “Excellent and delicious but perhaps less long-lived than 01”
- 1999 La Conseillante: lighter, more elegant, tobacco, cedar, classic, warm, herbs. Quite light but with lots of elegance, red fruit, good maturity. Very drinkable…
In 2008 Italy’s biggest export markets were:
- USA: 789 M euro
- Germany: 743 ME
- Great Britain: 478 ME
- Switzerland: 220 ME
- Canada: 200 ME
- Japan: 101 ME
- The Netherlands: 88 ME
- Denmark: 83 ME
- France: 80 ME
- Sweden: 73 ME
(Source ICE)
For the 12 months to March 2009 South African wine exports reached 4.1 million hl. That is about two thirds of the total production in Bordeaux. The biggest export markets were:
Many people are sceptical to red sparkling wines and to lambrusco in particular. If you are, you should try this wine made by Alberto Salvadori in the Emilia Romagna region. La Battagliola Grasparossa Lambrusco can make the most ardent critic change his mind. The wine is deep blood red with a hint of purple and it froths charmingly when poured. The taste is full of red berries – strawberries, currants. There’s not a lot of alcohol, only 5%. The wine is traditionally served with prosciutto ham and mortadella sausage, also coming from Emilia Romagna. Expect some 8 euros for a bottle. www.labattagliola.it
- Åsa
Panic! It’s in the middle of the summer, mother-in-law celebrates 70, you're far away in the country and you have to find something decent and appropriately festive to serve in the cottage. Calm down. Go looking for a Pol Roger Brut Réserve (some 25-35 euro). It’s widely distributed and fits the bill – full-bodied, dense and toasty champagne that you can enjoy all by itself (but preferably not by yourself) or with some nice summery fish dish. Not cheap but a good choice for the big day or for some other festive occasion. Good bubble value.
- Jack
Bistro de Serine, Bar à Vin – Caviste – Restaurant, Ampuis, Rhone
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Restaurantes El Donjuán, Martínez Cubells, 8, Valencia
In a nice and calm narrow alley you find this two-storey restaurant hidden behind a small street terrasse. Tapas is the natural choice of course and if you stay long enough and sample enough of the different small tapas dishes it will be a meal in itself. Everything we tasted was very good! And ‘la dolorosa’ will not be more painful than some 15-20 euro per person, including wine or beer. Nice.
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Les Vignes de Bacchus, Trèbes
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Château Ricardelle, Languedoc-La Clape
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Domaine Pierre Frick, Pfaffenheim, Alsace
Domaine Pierre Frick was one of the first biodynamic producers that we got to know. Their wines are full-bodied and full of flavour. Some are made entirely without sulphur (which is very unusual). It is not easy to make wine completely without sulphur but Jean-Pierre and Chantal Frick know how to do it. Making wine without sulphur gives the wines a different character that may not appeal to everyone – more subtle and soft character, less young, fresh fruit (only some of the Frick wines are without sulphur). They have 12 hectares and make some 30 different cuvees. All wines are closed with a crown cap (beer bottle style). They tried various closures and decided that the crown cap was the ideal (“millions of champagne bottles can’t be wrong”). The wines are over-all very well balanced, some have a little residual sugar but it is matched by a high acidity. Try the Riesling Bihl, Riesling Grand Cru Vorburg, Riesling Cuvée Précieuses and the excellent Pinot Noir Les Terrasses and Pinot Noir Strangenberg
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A few days ago I posted a long description of a situation where a site (Gibbston Gables http://www.gibbstongables.com/) is stealing my contents and reposting it on their site.
Here's the description of the inappropriate use of contents (scraping / splogging).
I had a quick response the my DMCA notification: I received today a notification from The Planet that the offending site has removed my contents.
Well, they have. But they have also made a new post that scrapes my contents.
I have also had some response from other people which have been the subject of scraping by this site, with varying result: some say thanks and will take action (good!), others say that their happy that anyone uses their material in any way at all (bad!).
So I will just have to
a) follow up with the hoster and complain again
b) watch the http://www.gibbstongables.com/ and see if they continue to steal my contents
It is curious how different markets work differently. Sweden and Denmark are basically rather similar countries, especially when seen from a distance (for instance from Paris as in our case, although we’re of Swedish origin).
Sweden is the 23rd biggest (biggest?) market for Bordeaux wine. One could almost say that we seem to buy not much Bordeaux at all in Sweden. (The UK, USA and Switzerland are the biggest markets – see more below.) Demark, that is a much smaller country (in terms of population) is the 11th (10th in volume).
The situation is different for South African wine. Sweden is the third biggest importer of South African wine, and Denmark is seventh.
Why is that?
Difficult to know, but it has no doubt a lot to do with the structure of the market. Sweden is a monopoly market and that means e.g. that they like suppliers who can supply big volumes. South Africa can. There are about as many wine producers in the whole of South Africa as there is in Saint Emilion, one of the smallest sub-districts in Bordeaux. Big buyer wants a big seller and it’s hard to find in Bordeaux (and in the rest of France).
Then there is the question of range: The Swedish monopoly carries some 2000 different wines. In Denmark you can find, according to estimates, 20,000 wines. The monopolist is “obliged” to carry at least a few wines from every wine region (for impartiality reasons) which means that there is less scope to have a good selection of Bordeaux wines.
In Sweden more than half of all wine that is consumed is sold in bag-in-box! Yes, more than half. Have you seen any Bordeaux in bib? You can find them but you will have to look hard (and this goes for the rest of France too). The South Africans, though, don’t seem to have any qualms “bottling” in plastic bags (the interior of a bib is a plastic bag).
There are many other factors to this, e.g. that Sweden is extremely trend-drive when it comes to wine. One year it is Primitivo in every second bottle (well, BiB actually), the next it is Australian shiraz etc. And Bordeaux is not really very trendy. The situation is quite different in Denmark where the retail sector (for wine) is much more fragmented.
And there is of course the fact that Danes drink more wine than Swedes. But I guess that doesn’t really account for the difference between South Africa and Bordeaux.
Since South Africa is now so immensely popular in Sweden we are launching our first wine tour to South Africa. The first one (in March 2010) will be in Swedish, but if you’re interested in going wine touring in South Africa do let us know. As you know we do do custom tours and perhaps we’ll put an English language SA tour on the program if there’s demand.
And don’t miss this month all the new wine videos we’ve put up on BKWine TV. We have, for example, and interview with the chief winemaker at Château d’Yquem, Sandrine Garbay, an interview with a Finnish winemaker in Tuscany, and much more. More info further down.
Britt & Per
PS: Recommend to your friends to read the Brief or forward it to them !
More on wine:
- Guest writers on BKWine.com
- Wine videos: BKWine TV
- Wine photography
Read all of the new BKWine Brief here!
Thiefs and scoundrels
It's happened to us a few times. Our blog entries show up on some other blog in their entirety. Someone is simply copying all the posts and publishing them on their blog.
Nice, you think. someone thinks what we/I write/produce is so good that they want to copy it.
Wrong!
What they are doing is stealing your work.
Why is this bad? I'm sure there are many more reasons but here are a few:
DomainsByProxy.comSo at least now we know who is stealing our contents and who we're fighting. Sort of.
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To: ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. and all subsidiariesI will also include pdf prints of the pages, just in case they would have been removed. (Which would be good, of course, but may cause confusion with the DMCA).
Name of Agent Designated to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement – Andrea Z. Almeida
1333 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 110, Dallas, TX 75207
Telephone Number of Designated Agent (214) 782-7800
Facsimile Number of Designated Agent - (214) 782-7756
E-Mail Address of Designated Agent copyright@thep....
Notification to the Designated Agent, Andrea Z Almeida
Subject: Notification of copyright infringement by site supposedly hosted by The Planet.com
Date: XXXXX
Dear Sir,
I am the owner of the copyright of material published on the YouTube “channel” bkwine: http://www.youtube.com/bkwine.
Identification of infringed copyrighted work
As example, I own the copyright of the following video and, equally, to the accompanying text:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Ch4C3BH2U
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7cq-5nPhQ
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75gpOInRtY
You will find a more extensive list at the end of this notification.
Identification of infringing material
The website http://www.gibbstongables.com/ , that according to my information is hosted by you, in your facilities, is infringing on my copyright of this material. They practice what is generally known as “scraping” or "splogging", in this case scraping contents from YouTube, thereby using the original material in its entirety without permission. (This is different form simply “embedding” a video which would not in itself constitute copyright infringement.)
As example, the above mentioned material is being used without my permission on the following pages:
1. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-kir-yianni-estate-with-stellios-boutaris-in-greece
2. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/a-short-visual-visit-to-v-innocenti-winery-in-montepulciano
3. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-herdade-do-esporao-interview
I request that you remove the infringing material or disable access to it.
I hereby affirm, as the complaining party, that I believe in good faith that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright holder, its agent or the law. In fact, I am the copyright owner and I have not authorized such use.
I hereby affirm, under penalty of perjury, that the information contained in this notification is accurate, and that I am authorized to act on behalf of the holder of the exclusive right that I claim to be infringed.
In addition to the above mentioned, it seems that several other copyright owners have their material used in an inappropriate manner by the said site.
Sincerely yours,
signed, with contact details
Annex 1:
List of pages found on http://www.gibbstongables.com/ with infringing material to which I own the copyright. The list may be incomplete. The list does not include material from other copyright owners:
1. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-kir-yianni-estate-with-stellios-boutaris-in-greece
2. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/a-short-visual-visit-to-v-innocenti-winery-in-montepulciano
3. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-herdade-do-esporao-interview
4. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/a-visual-vist-to-candialle-az-agr-in-chianti
5. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-domaine-boucabeille-interview
6. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-domaine-de-nizas-languedoc
7. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/a-visual-visit-to-tenute-nardi-winery-in-tuscany
8. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-mount-athos-wine-tsantali
9. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-interview-at-h-do-peso-vineyard-on-grape-varieties-etc
10. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/visual-visit-to-malhadinha-nova-winery-in-alentejo
Annex 2:
I attach pdf printouts of the pages referenced above.
Domains by Proxy, Inc.With that I think I've done a reasonably good effort to stop the thieving.
DomainsByProxy.com
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Date:
Dear Domains by Proxy, Inc,
It has come to my attention that you have made unauthorised use of my work.
The site owned and/or managed by you, according to current WhoIs lookup information, http://www.gibbstongables.com, practices what is generally called “scraping” or “splogging”, thereby copying contents from other sites without the permission of the copyright holder.
As example, I own the copyright to the following videos and, equally, to the accompanying text:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Ch4C3BH2U
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7cq-5nPhQ
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75gpOInRtY
The above mentioned material is being used in an inappropriate manner without my permission on the following pages:
1. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-kir-yianni-estate-with-stellios-boutaris-in-greece
2. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/a-short-visual-visit-to-v-innocenti-winery-in-montepulciano
3. http://www.gibbstongables.com/uncategorized/e-herdade-do-esporao-interview
This is just a few examples. There are many other occurrences of such inappropriate use of material, mine as well as that from other sources, on your site.
I request that you remove the infringing material or disable access to it within five days and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future.
For information, this copyright infringement is also the subject of a DMCA notification as well as an abuse notification to Google.
Sincerely
Did you know that for each domain name you register, anyone - anywhere, anytime - can find out your name, home address, phone number and email address?Sounds completely above-the-board, doesn't it?
On may 28 INAO approved two new appellations: Saint Pourçain, and Bugey with Roussette de Bugey. Saint Pourçain is made from gamay or pinot noir grapes and covers some 600 ha. Bugey extends over 500 ha a little east of Burgundy. AOC/AOP Bugey can be red, white or rosé, or even sparkling. Roussette du Bugey is a white wine made only from the altesse grape (locally known as roussette).
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(BTW, I quite like the illustration. Try and figure out the relevance!)
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Vine Growing and Wine Making
The original Swedish title is "Ett vin blir till" meaning A Wine is Born. It is a unique description of the work in the vineyard and in the wine cellar. Published in 2009. More info on the web site for A Wine is Born.
Languedoc
Wines, vineyards and winemakers in Languedoc in the south of France, one of the most dynamic wine regions in France, and in the world. Published in 2007. More info on the site of the Languedoc book.
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