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Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 113, January 2013

50 wine producers from Cahors, each with three wines. It was a tough morning today… To taste a large number of wines in a short period of time can be straining. Is straining. Some people

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 112, December 2012

A new year is beginning and also, probably, new discussions and new debates in the world of wine. What will be the main topics during 2013? Planting rights and the declining influence of Robert Parker?

BKWine Brief nr 111, November 2012

The first thing we just have to tell you is that our new book won the prize as Best Wine Book for Professionals in Sweden by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards! We just received the

BKWine Brief nr 110, October 2012

This year’s most hectic wine travel season has come to an end. The very last of our autumn wine tours, to a Sicily with nice summer-ish weather, finished on Sunday. The only remaining travel on

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 109, September 2012

This is a very hectic period, both for wine producers and for us at BKWine. The harvest will be late in many wine districts this year. In some places they have started but many are

BKWine Brief nr 108, August 2012

We are getting more and more excited. It is a certain nervousness or anxiety that is building up. Next week we will launch our new book! What will people say?! The book’s title is Wine

BKWine Brief nr 107, July 2012

BKWine Brief nr 107, July 2012 Five hectares is not much. But apparently that is the total planted acreage of the folle noire grape in France. The relative folle blanche is much more common. It

Britt Karlsson and Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 106, June 2012

In this brief we write about several wine competitions. One is very special, almost a curiosity: A competition to nominate the wine with the most successful (or best) malolactic fermentation. I wonder how you judge

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 105, May 2012

Selling wine is not easy. Some (regions/producers) think it will be easier if they get their own appellation, as we mentioned in the last Brief: two new appellations in the Loire Valley that no one

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 104, April 2012

The weather in April in France has been quite cold and rainy and the small buds that started growing during the warm days in March have been suffering night time frost in some parts on

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 103, March 2012

It seems that the wine world have been caught up a new insane craze or hysteria. This thing with “natural wines” Every wine magazine, wine journalist, wine blogger etc is writing about “natural wines”, either

BKWine Brief nr 102, February 2012 now out

Rebuilding a web site is exciting. There is always something new and unexpected that happens. Many of you have had some troubles accessing our site recently and we apologise for that. That is one of

BKWine Brief nr 102, February 2012

Rebuilding a web site is exciting. There is always something new and unexpected that happens. Many of you have had some troubles accessing our site recently and we apologise for that. That is one of

BKWine Brief nr 101, January 2012 now out

Well, it’s actually quite some time since the BKWine Brief #101 was published but we’ve had some persistent publishing problems, that should now be resolved (but as you can tell below, we’re having our fair

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 101, January 2012

If last month was special because it was BKWine Brief issue number 100 this month’s Brief is special for another reason. We have discovered that there are some issues with the delivery of the Brief

BKWine Brief nr 100, December 2011

We are probably at least as surprised as anyone else. That we have reached number 100 of the BKWine Brief! It all started in May 2003. Well, it really started long before that if we

BKWine Brief nr 108, August 2012

We are getting more and more excited. It is a certain nervousness or anxiety that is building up. Next week we will launch our new

BKWine Brief nr 107, July 2012

BKWine Brief nr 107, July 2012 Five hectares is not much. But apparently that is the total planted acreage of the folle noire grape in

Britt Karlsson and Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 106, June 2012

In this brief we write about several wine competitions. One is very special, almost a curiosity: A competition to nominate the wine with the most

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 105, May 2012

Selling wine is not easy. Some (regions/producers) think it will be easier if they get their own appellation, as we mentioned in the last Brief:

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 104, April 2012

The weather in April in France has been quite cold and rainy and the small buds that started growing during the warm days in March

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 103, March 2012

It seems that the wine world have been caught up a new insane craze or hysteria. This thing with “natural wines” Every wine magazine, wine

BKWine Brief nr 102, February 2012

Rebuilding a web site is exciting. There is always something new and unexpected that happens. Many of you have had some troubles accessing our site

BKWine Brief nr 101, January 2012 now out

Well, it’s actually quite some time since the BKWine Brief #101 was published but we’ve had some persistent publishing problems, that should now be resolved

Britt & Per Karlsson, BKWine

BKWine Brief nr 101, January 2012

If last month was special because it was BKWine Brief issue number 100 this month’s Brief is special for another reason. We have discovered that

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