Welcome to the BKWine Brief nr 79, February 2010
2010-02-17
You, us and The Brief We do put in quite a lot of effort and time into making the Brief each month. Partially because it
You, us and The Brief We do put in quite a lot of effort and time into making the Brief each month. Partially because it
Extracting more by spraying the cap — “Pumping over” (called remontage in French) is a technology used in the winery to increase extraction. The winemaker
We have updated our events calendar with several new events : competitions, shows and other. Thank you to FIJEV (Federation International des Journalistes en Vin)
According to the forecast at the end of last year 2009 will be a record year for wine sales in Sweden. If December sales were
Last month we asked the question “what does Worcester Sauce has to do with wine?” It was sparked by the wine blog called Worcester Sauce
Dr. Vino is a wine blogger with a talent to unearth unusual and intriguing stories. He has found this month’s wine accessory that one should
Croatian wine and gastronomic delicacies will be on show on the upcoming Zagreb Wine Gourmet Festival on February 12 and 13. Lectures, workshops, wine tastings,
The other big wine fair to put in the agenda this winter is Vinisud (also in Montpellier), specialised in wines from the Mediterranean basin. Vinisud
Just a reminder on Millésime Bio, the big (only?) wine fair focussed on organic and biodynamic wines. A very interesting event for anyone hunting for
Miss Vicky’s real name is Anne-Victoire Monrozier and she writes the blog Miss Vicky Wine. She also sells wine (I think, her family has a
You may not know of our wine picture blog. It is a blog where we publish a new wine photograph every day. Or every day
EU will launch a new logo to mark organic products (“biologique” in French). They created a large number of suggestions. Three suggested logotypes have been
We have started a series of wine growing and wine making slide shows to show more details on how some things are done. The intention
Ten predictions for wine trends for 2010 Wine Trend 2010 #1, environmental issues #1, eco-friendly wines It’s been a trend for some time now but
In a longer term this will have a big impact but even in the short term it will be noticeable. It is above all on
This is the trend that we most hop that we will be mistaken on. Over the last few years the EU agricultural policy (the CAP)
Champagne is probably the wine region that has prospered most during the past decade. They have rather had a shortage of wine (or grapes) and
In Bordeaux they grow more and more petit verdot and sauvignon gris. Marselan has been approved for AOC Côtes du Rhône. We will see more
2009 was the year of The Crisis but it didn’t make people stop drinking wines. Instead, consumers moved towards less expensive wines. This, we think,
Just read this wonderful story by Tom Fiorina about how he became a truffle hunter. Hunting truffles not with a pig, not with a dog.
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