Champagne! How it is made
2011-12-22
Winemaking and styles for the world’s most famous sparkling wine There will be millions of bottles of champagne drunk during the Christmas and New Year
Winemaking and styles for the world’s most famous sparkling wine There will be millions of bottles of champagne drunk during the Christmas and New Year
The BKWine Brief story from the start to today In December 2011 we publish the 100th issue of our newsletter, the BKWine Brief. Here is
We probably all have a tendency sometimes to choose the wine that sounds familiar or what happens to be easiest to find on the shelf.
The difference between independents and champagne “houses”, and a few recommendations The big houses (Moët, Pommery, Mercier, Veuve Clicquot, Laurent-Perrier, etc.) dominate the production of
Le Carceri actually means “the prison” and that is what this place used to be. Now it houses a nice restaurant and apartments (of the
Test yourself or your loved ones. See at which score you can guess the French appellation (AOC)! If you guess right on 5p you get,
If you are seriously interested in Loire wines you should go to the Salon des Vins de Loire wine show. It helps if you are
Test yourself or your loved ones. See at which score you can guess the French appellation (AOC)! If you guess right on 5p you get,
Test yourself or your loved ones. See at which score you can guess the French appellation (AOC)! If you guess right on 5p you get,
On sweet and semi-sweet wines from Alsace During Christmas and New Year there are often many opportunities to drink a sweet or semi-sweet wine. They
Zinzolin is apparently a dark purple colour. What it has to do with the restaurant we don’t know. You find the Le Zinzolin restaurant in
Fine Magazine is a super-luxury-premium wine magazine (that is actually published in Finland!). Their latest issue is a special celebration of Bordeaux wines. The write,
Five days in Champagne, Chablis and Burgundy, is a wine tour that we call The Three Classics. It is one of the most popular tours
Boris does not have a pinch of Russian in him, at least not when it comes to the restaurant. The style is very French bistro
The most famous of all wine classifications was made more than 150 years ago. The 1855 Bordeaux Grand Cru Classé Classification, made for the World
The 1855 classification of Bordeaux is really a classification of chateau, meaning the building, or the “brand” attached to the building, rather than a classification
A new (2009) wine shop open seven days a week until 22.00. A very well chosen but not extensive selection of wines. Good choice if
We were fortunate (you have to create your own luck!) to have a magnificent lunch and wine tasting at the wine tour we recently organised
There has recently been a curious “debate” on one of the major Swedish wine blogs on what is “the stongest wine in the world”, naturally
It is always exciting to hear what travellers have to say about BKWine’s wine tours. We always try very hard to make sure that a
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