Post Archive

First, we have made a big picture update on the site with lots of pictures from vineyards and wineries in the Balkans: Croatia, Albania, Montenegro,

A little envelope arrived the other day. An invitation to a wine tasting of ’49 Bordeaux. Eleven wines: Cheval Blanc, Lafleur, Pétrus, Latour, Lafite, Mouton,

– Parisians love the accent of the wine growers in Duras in south-western France. To make a sure success of a marketing campaign for products

Some misconceptions and misunderstandings – “When it comes to budget wines, France is way behind.” Perhaps that is true when it comes to the really,

Yves Bernard has been appointed president of INAO, the French control authority for (among other things) wine. Bernard comes from Champagne with a long career

From a press release by the Association of Wine Economists: “The first annual conference of the American Association of Wine Economists will take place in

Our Finnish readers may be interested to know of a new article on Provence, written by BKWine’s Finnish partner Virpi Sorvisto, on Toisi Sanoen

The small Fenouillèdes appellation in the southern French region of Roussillon is not very well known but they seem to be very dynamic and taking

The American wine university UC Davies organises on August 8-10 a conference on the theme ”Competitive Forces Affecting the Wine and Winegrape Industries”. Call for

In an article in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera a journalist speculates if the future is sombre for Brunello wines. Researchers at the university

Wine X is, or was, a wine magazine for “young adults, the Generation X. Wine X has now folded, well, been forced to close down.

Ernest Gallo died on March 6 in California. Enest Gallo founded together with his brother Julio E&J Gallo winery in 1933. Today it is the

Researchers who have done trials on mice have discovered that consumption of red wine may make fat mice less fat. Perhaps it may work on

It’s nice to report some positive numbers for a change. French wine export grew by 13% in 2006. Exports to the USA, the biggest export

Rapidly on the heels of the Cru Bourgeois debacle three estates in Saint Emilion have put in question the new St Emilion classification. Chateaux Villemaurine,

A court in Bordeaux has declared annulled and invalid the new Cru Bourgeois classification that was introduced in 2003. 77 chateaux that had been excluded