In February, during the primeur tastings of Chianti Classico in Florence, new rules for the appellation was presented as well as a new design for
In early April, we did a tour to three classic white wine regions in France: Chablis, Sancerre and Champagne. The vines had just recovered from
Last year, in 2012, seven new grape varieties were approved for wine production in France. Five of these were foreign varieties that are considered of
Our book on organic wines was awarded with “silver”, second place, runner-up, in the category “World’s Best Educational Wine Book 2012” by the Gourmand World
Today we start a new heading and section on BKWine Magazine: Uncorked, good wines that we have taste recently. Under this heading we will collect
Ten years ago, in May 2003, we launched the BKWine Brief, our newsletter on wine, gastronomy, and travel. Already from the start it was bilingual
Four new varieties have been born in France. And it’s really four brand new varieties. With names we have never heard of: gaminot, beaugaray, picarlat
Champagne Jacquesson is an innovative champagne house and a very quality conscious. BKWine’s Ulf Bengtsson recently met the owner, Jean-Hervé Chiquet and took part in
Located in central Paris, this restaurant called Bourgogne Sud really offers exactly what the name indicates: food and wine from the southern part of Burgundy.
Perhaps you didn’t know? We also have a wine travel blog where we write about things that are more wine and food travel oriented. There
Is it a science or just common sense? Yes, the question is what to use when choosing the wine for dinner. Precise theories or simplistic
France (and some other major European wine countries) is fighting tooth and nail to maintain planting rights in Europe. And even though they have managed
It is sad when something you have always believed in turns out to be false. I suppose I am not the only one having learned
Åsa Johansson is Swedish but lives in Italy. She is in charge of most of what BKWine does in Italy, she virtually is BKWine Italia,
Inspired by our South America wine tour trip in February we recently went to a Peruvian restaurant here in Paris, considered one of the very
How provincial protectionism makes it more difficult to sell French wines Vin de France, that is the new name for “vin de table” (wine without
The plastic cork is one of several alternatives to natural cork. Some like it and some do not. Some producers refuse to put plastic in
All wines contain sulphur, but some less than others, help is on the way Almost all wines contain sulphur. This is not only because most
South African wine regions wine tour: February 28 to March 10, 2014! We have now finalised the dates for the new wine tour to South
We have probably all experienced a bottle of wine from Alsace that did not go well with the food we served. The reason being, for
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