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Welcome to BKWine Magazine! Welcome to our brand new site design. Our new site will make it much more easy for you to find information. It will also integrate the various blogs and sites that
Gianfranco Kozlovic is also experimenting with acacia wood. His Acacia malvazija is aged for nine months and he likes the result so far. And he thinks it is important to do something different. The wine
Ivica Matosevic is the first one to make wine in his family. “You can’t make a lot of money in wine” he says, but it is a nice job! And people like my wines, think
Are you looking for something different, out of the ordinary? Wines that don’t taste like everything else? Go to Istria and taste their extraordinary malvazia (that can also be written malvazija or malvasia)! Istria is
FINE Magazine is a super-exclusive magazine on wine. It is enough to look at who their advertisers are and you understand: Aston Martin, Brioni, champagne houses, auction houses, Piaget etc. And it costs 120 euros
Things are apparently going well for cognac, in spite of the financial crisis. 2010 was a record year for cognac sales: 1.86 billion euro in sales, which is an increase of almost 30% compared to
Traditionally champagne is made and marketed by the big ”houses” in the region, with all the well-known champagne brands. Quite few champagnes come from individual growers and bottlers. Some say that the fabulous success of
Chateau Grillet is one of these French appellations that most wine lovers have heard about but few have tasted. It is sometimes said to be France’s smallest appellation (it depends on how you count) and
Sommelier India is a glossy (in the nice sense of the term) wine magazine that also has a web site full of wine information. They recently ran an article called “Information You Can Use –
Our new site on wine travel is now up and running. All information about our wine tour activity will in the future be found on www.bkwinetours.com. Our wine tour programs will of course be published
I went to a very interesting dinner the other day, the Dîner des Chefs at Park Hyatt Paris Vendôme. The dinner was organised for the 6th time (and always during the Paris Book Fair), by
Every two years the French sommelier organisation (UDSF, l’Union de la Sommellerie Français) organises a competition for young wine waiters, open to anyone who is working with or studying sommellerie and is under 26. Anyone
Dry champagne goes under the name of ‘brut’ (French for raw, unprocessed). Half-sweet and sweet are, confusingly, called sec and demi-sec. Even if ‘brut’ linguistically means “in its original state, sugar has been added to
2.23 million litres of wine was sold in bag-in-box in the big retail chains in France in 2009. This represents 24.4% of the volume! It is an increase of 17.5% compared to 2008. Evidently the
The story starts with the reform of the French appellation system. Since a long time back there has been a small intermediate group called VDQS, just below the highest quality category AOC. VDQS stands for
The story of planting a gruner veltliner vine Still not a sign of life on my cuttings from gruner veltliner that I got at the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Vienna last October. Here is
Some interesting wines of vintage 2010. Some new names, worth remembering. Château Puygueraud, Francs – Côtes de Bordeaux Very fruity, really easy to taste and juicy. Château Puygueraud, Cuvée George, Francs – Côtes de Bordeaux
We tasted primeur wines already this week (last week, when this comes on the blog) here in Paris. Monday this week Bordeaux consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt invited to a tasting of 2010 from all the chateaux
It is not easy to taste the primeur wines and judge the potential quality and taste. Bordeaux is a wine blended from different grape varieties and at the moment they are kept separately in the
The week of the primeur tastings in Bordeaux is approaching fast. Next week it starts (first week of April – current week when this is published on the blog). Wine merchants and journalists will, during
Here is the list of the most popular white wine grape varieties in Germany, counted in volume: – Muller thurgau, 14% – Riesling, 13% – Gruner veltliner, 7% – Chardonnay, 5% – Pinot gris (rulander),
We are immensely proud! This is the beginning of the press release: “The Swedish wine book “The Creation of a Wine” was awarded the prize “World’s Best Wine Book for Professionals 2010” in the international
“World’s Best Wine Tours” – Travel + Leisure Magazine, on TravelAndLeisure.com BKWine offers you two possibilities to go wine travelling this autumn: Wine Tour to Bordeaux, October 5-9, 2011 For a wine lover a trip
It feels like ages since the last issue of the Brief. So many things have happened since. A few: World’s Best Wine Book! We won the prize “World’s Best Wine Book for Professionals 2010” in
Continuing the story of growing a gruner veltliner vine from cuttings that I received at the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Vienna. I am starting to get a bit worried. Weather has been nice. We
After about 5 days in water there is maybe, maybe the beginning of tiny roots on the gruner veltliner cuttings. I’ve had to change the water several times, to keep it fresh. Here’s how it
This is not at all about ‘green’ vine growing. It’s about gruner veltliner, the star white grape variety of Austria. Last November I visited Austria for the European Wine Bloggers Conference (#EWBC). At one of
Last year the EU project to agree on a definition of what “organic wine” would be was discarded. There was too much disagreement on what substances and what technologies should be allowed in the wine
A short updated on what we saw, drank and ate on our recent wine and food trip to Istria in northern Croatia on our Travelog. Lots of interesting wine and food!
“World’s Best Wine Tours” – Travel + Leisure Magazine, on TravelAndLeisure.com BKWine offers you two possibilities to go wine travelling this autumn: Wine Tour to Bordeaux, April 13-17, 2011 October 5-9, 2011 For a wine
Welcome to BKWine Magazine! Welcome to our brand new site design. Our new site will make it much more easy for you to find information.
Gianfranco Kozlovic is also experimenting with acacia wood. His Acacia malvazija is aged for nine months and he likes the result so far. And he
Ivica Matosevic is the first one to make wine in his family. “You can’t make a lot of money in wine” he says, but it
Are you looking for something different, out of the ordinary? Wines that don’t taste like everything else? Go to Istria and taste their extraordinary malvazia
FINE Magazine is a super-exclusive magazine on wine. It is enough to look at who their advertisers are and you understand: Aston Martin, Brioni, champagne
Things are apparently going well for cognac, in spite of the financial crisis. 2010 was a record year for cognac sales: 1.86 billion euro in
Traditionally champagne is made and marketed by the big ”houses” in the region, with all the well-known champagne brands. Quite few champagnes come from individual
Chateau Grillet is one of these French appellations that most wine lovers have heard about but few have tasted. It is sometimes said to be
Sommelier India is a glossy (in the nice sense of the term) wine magazine that also has a web site full of wine information. They
Our new site on wine travel is now up and running. All information about our wine tour activity will in the future be found on
I went to a very interesting dinner the other day, the Dîner des Chefs at Park Hyatt Paris Vendôme. The dinner was organised for the
Every two years the French sommelier organisation (UDSF, l’Union de la Sommellerie Français) organises a competition for young wine waiters, open to anyone who is
Dry champagne goes under the name of ‘brut’ (French for raw, unprocessed). Half-sweet and sweet are, confusingly, called sec and demi-sec. Even if ‘brut’ linguistically
2.23 million litres of wine was sold in bag-in-box in the big retail chains in France in 2009. This represents 24.4% of the volume! It
The story starts with the reform of the French appellation system. Since a long time back there has been a small intermediate group called VDQS,
The story of planting a gruner veltliner vine Still not a sign of life on my cuttings from gruner veltliner that I got at the
Some interesting wines of vintage 2010. Some new names, worth remembering. Château Puygueraud, Francs – Côtes de Bordeaux Very fruity, really easy to taste and
We tasted primeur wines already this week (last week, when this comes on the blog) here in Paris. Monday this week Bordeaux consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt
It is not easy to taste the primeur wines and judge the potential quality and taste. Bordeaux is a wine blended from different grape varieties
The week of the primeur tastings in Bordeaux is approaching fast. Next week it starts (first week of April – current week when this is
Here is the list of the most popular white wine grape varieties in Germany, counted in volume: – Muller thurgau, 14% – Riesling, 13% –
We are immensely proud! This is the beginning of the press release: “The Swedish wine book “The Creation of a Wine” was awarded the prize
“World’s Best Wine Tours” – Travel + Leisure Magazine, on TravelAndLeisure.com BKWine offers you two possibilities to go wine travelling this autumn: Wine Tour to
It feels like ages since the last issue of the Brief. So many things have happened since. A few: World’s Best Wine Book! We won
Continuing the story of growing a gruner veltliner vine from cuttings that I received at the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Vienna. I am starting
After about 5 days in water there is maybe, maybe the beginning of tiny roots on the gruner veltliner cuttings. I’ve had to change the
This is not at all about ‘green’ vine growing. It’s about gruner veltliner, the star white grape variety of Austria. Last November I visited Austria
Last year the EU project to agree on a definition of what “organic wine” would be was discarded. There was too much disagreement on what
A short updated on what we saw, drank and ate on our recent wine and food trip to Istria in northern Croatia on our Travelog.
“World’s Best Wine Tours” – Travel + Leisure Magazine, on TravelAndLeisure.com BKWine offers you two possibilities to go wine travelling this autumn: Wine Tour to
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