Black soil as good as white
2013-09-20
Schist (slate) deserves more respect. Wine growers in Anjou in the Loire Valley are a bit upset about the fact that limestone gets all the
Schist (slate) deserves more respect. Wine growers in Anjou in the Loire Valley are a bit upset about the fact that limestone gets all the
Alsace is primarily known for its elegant, stylish, often aromatic white wines. But they do much else there too. For example, the wonderfully intense sweet
Sometimes it feels like every wine you drink is oaked. But the fact is that only 2% of all the world’s wines spend time in
We are busy finalising all the details for the winter and spring wine tours. We have already fixed the dates but even if all the
Wine growers talk about high and low yields in the vineyard. In Languedoc they have around 45 hectolitres per hectare, in Bordeaux 50 to 60
A new Sassicaia from carignan? Agricola Punica is a new vineyard in Sardinia with close ties to the legendary Tenuta San Guido (Sassicaia) in Tuscany.
While visiting Vinexpo in Bordeaux in June I stopped at the Turkish stand and tasted some of their wines. Quite a few of them were
A new must-have (?) wine gadget I just discovered a brand new “device” to keep an opened bottle of wine fresh for a long time:
Here is what is on our list of scheduled tours currently. (English language tours only. For Swedish language wine tours see BKWineVinresor.com) We also do
I am not sure what the best expression is in English but in Sweden they say “choosing between pest and cholera”. More evocative than “between
Magnus Reuterdahl blames much of it on Ridge. It was Ridge that first put him on the slippery slope of drinking better and better wines:
Our picks from the range of the wine importer Handpicked Wines Handpicked Wines is one of the smaller niche importers in Sweden . It primarily
A warm summer evening Ulf Bengtsson is sitting on the grass in the park enjoying the bubbles (and everything around the bubbles). “I pour some
Rodney Strong started a career in winemaking in California after having retired from dancing at the Lido in Paris. The Foppiano family came to California
At a lunch and wine tasting recently Roland had the opportunity to discuss with Marilisa Allegrini. She is part of the current generation that manages
My wine of the month wine is a bit special, Tio Pepe Fino en Rama Gonzales Byass is a limited edition of 10,752 bottles of
No, not yet. It is likely to happen in Pennsylvania in the autumn but not in Sweden. In Sweden it will take more time. But
The spirits industry is much more concentrated than the wine industry, and I am not talking about the alcohol contents. But even if one can
I am about to go to Stockholm for a few days and have to fill the days with something. What better than to explore all
The organic winegrowers in Languedoc-Roussillon say that the state, through advertising campaigns, should encourage French people to drink organic wines. It is difficult for us
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