Interview with Graham Nutter of Chateau St Jacques d’Albas. Graham acquired Château Saint Jacques d’Albas some seven years ago, as the realisation of a long-time dream of becoming winemaker. Graham has invested heavily in the property and in the soil to make it a premier example of a quality wine producer in the Languedoc region [...]
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Domaine de Nizas, Languedoc, interview with Arnaud Deville | BKWine TV
Interview with Arnaud Deville manager of Domaine de Nizas, a vineyard in the Languedoc region in France, a little bit north of Pezenas and close to Caux. The Domaine de Nizas vineyard was created by the Franco-American John Goelet who also owns Clos du Val in California (manged by Bernard Portet) and Taltarni Vineyards in [...]
5 reasons why Portuguese wines are great with Sarah Ahmed, The Wine Detective | BKWine TV
Interview with Sarah Ahmed on why wines from Portugal are so exciting Here are some of the key things on Portuguese wines that Sarah tells us in the interview: If you are a wine lover you can not help being exited about Portugal and Portuguese wines. The country has a treasure trove of native grape [...]
Mas Gabinele in the Faugeres, Languedoc | BKWine TV
An interview in French with the founder, Thierry Rodriguez, of the Mas Gabinele wine estate in Faugeres in the Languedoc. This is quite an old video, but that apparently we have not previously published it here. It is actually one of the very first I made, back in 2007. In short on Mas Gabinele: 10 [...]
Maestro, a (not so) new champagne closure by Duval Leroy and Alcan | BKWine TV
Curiously, this has not previously been published on BKWine Magazine even though it is one of our most viewed videos and dates back to 2009. It shows the launch of a new champagne closure called Maestro. However, after the launch the new cork (capsule actually) was ruled illegal by the authorities since the rules says [...]
“Honey, I bought a vineyard!”
Not everyone has 50 or 100 million euros to spend on a vineyard (as was recently the price tag for Ruffino). One of the most cost efficient districts in which to buy a vineyard is the Languedoc in the south of France. Although they make some outstanding wines there today the land prices are often [...]
The story of Domaine Turner Pageot | BKWine TV
Domaine Turner Pageot is a very small wine producer in the Languedoc, in the little town of Gabian. It was created by the husband and wife team of Emmanuel Pageot and Karen Turner, he from France and she from Australia. Emmanuel runs the vineyard and winery while Karen spends most of her time working as [...]
Cortes de Cima Founder & Owner Hans Kristian Jorgensen | BKWine TV
Interview with the founder, owner and winemaker of the winery Cortes de Cima: Hans Kristian Jorgensen, in the vineyards of the estate. Cortes de Cima is one of the leading wine estates in the Alentejo, a wine region an hour or two east of Lisbon that has undergone a revival in the last few decades. [...]
A quarter of a million video views on BKWine TV
We are a bit surprised ourselves. We recently passed 250,000 (yes, a quarter of a million!) video views on YouTube for our wine videos. We started doing video four years ago mostly for fun and not as a serious thing. Since then we have done more than a hundred videos (and they have become a [...]
Steenberg Vineyards, South Africa, interview with John Loubser | BKWine TV
Interview with John Loubser, general manager at the Steenberg Vineyards Winery in Constantia on the Cape peninsula in South Africa. Steenberg means Stone Mountain. The reason is obvious when you come here: you are surrounded by stones and mountains, granite stone mountain. This soil gives fantastic sauvignon blanc wines with lots of minerality. They also [...]
The dangers of inviting your friends over to share a bottle of wine
Sub-title: The Life of a Vigneron. We suspect that it is actually a so called viral video that tries to market the wines of Domaine Mazet de Croses, a vineyard in the Languedoc. But it does not matter. It is so fabulous so we just have to share it! The video is actually called La [...]
An introduction to truffles with the truffles doctor Dottore Giorgio Colli | BKWine TV
Dottore Giorgio Colli gives a short introduction to truffles, what types of truffles there are and how you should prepare and serve them. Truffle is a type of mushroom. About a dozen truffle varieties are used in Europe. There is the white truffle, called in Latin Tuber Magnatum Pico. It is found mainly in the [...]
Cortes de Cima Winemaker Hamilton Reis | BKWine TV
Cortes de Cima: interview with winemaker Hamilton Reis. Cortes de Cima is a winery in the Alentejo region in Portugal, an hour an a half east of Lisbon. Their total range includes more than a dozen wines. The main: Chamine is the entry level wine, a blend with mainly Portuguese grape varieties (aragonez, trincadeira and [...]
Interesting interviews with top chateaux in Bordeaux
I’m not quite sure why they have done it but it is a very ambitious effort. The Swedish wine importer Hjo Grosshandel has published a dozen video interviews with a handful of the great and glorious chateau in Bordeaux. The interviews were done (it seems) at the primeur tastings earlier this year, and the main [...]
Why we don’t see more videos with Jancis Robinson
“Wine tasting is not a spectator sport” Jancis Robinson is one of the wine world’s super-stars. She recently published a new video with herself, one of only two she has made with herself. And the whole point of the video is to explain why she does not do more. “Wine tasting is not a spectator [...]
Wines from Istria in Croatia, part 5: An Austrian in Istria explains
Guido Schwengersbauer has lived in Croatia for many, many years. Today he runs a charming small hotel called La Parenzana in the small village of Buje on the Istrian peninsula. One of his passions is the Istrian wine and food. We met Guido recently when we were travelling in Istria and talked about the Istrian [...]
BKWine TV wine videos viewed 200,000 times
BKWine TV recently passed 200,000 “total upload views” on YouTube. BKWine TV is our ‘channel’ on YouTube with interviews, reportage and other videos that we’ve done during our various wine tours and travel. In other words 203,366 is the number of times someone has watched a BKWine TV video. Fantastic, we’re very happy! You can [...]
Stellekaya Winery, Stellenbosch, South Africa – BKWine TV
Stellekaya is one of the wine producers that impressed us most during our trip to South Africa earlier this year. It’s a small producer – they call themselves boutique wine producer – and the wines are not only of high quality but also interesting and with a lot a character. Their winemaker Ntsiki Biyela started [...]
Domaine Turner Pageot in Languedoc goes video viral
Domaine Turner Pageot is a small wine estate in the village of Gabian not far from Béziers in the Languedoc. Karen Turner from Australia and Emmanuel Pageot from France first met in the cellars of Hugel in Alsace where they were both working for the harvest (quite) some years back. Both had a passion for [...]
Domaine Duseigneur part 1, farming the vineyards w Frederic Duseigneur [E] – BKWine TV
Interview (part 1) with Domaine Duseigneur (Rhone), Frederic Duseigneur. Domaine Duseigneur is a small family wine producer in the southern Rhone Valley just across the river from Chateauneuf-du-Pape, run by the brothers Frederic and Bernard (they also work with the famous French sommelier Philippe Faure-Brac). Frederic sees himself more as a farmer than a winemaker. [...]
Yoga for wine lovers
If you feel the need to exercise or get away from your sedentary life-style, perhaps you should try yoga. The cartoonist pair behind Harold’s Planet has developed a particular kind of yoga for wine lovers. Watch the video here:
Denis Dubourdieu, winemaker and consultant, part 2 [E] – BKWine TV
Interview (part 2) with Denis Dubourdieu. Denis Dubourdieu is a wine consultant and wine maker, as well as a professor in oenology at the University of Bordeaux. Part 2 of a two part interview. We talk with Denis Dubourdieu about the trend towards organic wine, organic farming in the vineyards. Denis emphasises that one should [...]
Denis Dubourdieu, one of the world’s best known wine consultants, part 1 [E] – BKWine TV
Denis Dubourdieu is one of the world’s best known wine consultants. He is perhaps to modest to call himself ‘flying winemaker’ and does not really boast his various assignments. BKWine met with him at one of his own properties in Bordeaux (he has five), at Chateau Reynon in Entre deux Mers. Part 1 of a [...]
The future of Bordeaux with César Compadre, part 1 [F] – BKWine TV
New video on BKWine TV: César Compadre is France’s only journalist at a daily paper dedicated 100% to wine and spirits. He writes for the Sud-Ouest paper, based in Bordeaux. BKWine TV met César this spring, and who better to talk to about the future of Bordeaux? We talked with César Compadre about how he [...]
Recycle your old corks, turn them into … sexy underwear
It might perhaps be a bit difficult to do yourself (but worth a try?), but a Portuguese designer has created a line of sexy (hmm, well) underwear made from cork. The sexy frills are created by hand in a limited edition and are specially designed to function well for strip-tease occasions… Cork is made by [...]
The Future of Bordeaux with Cesar Compadre, part 2 [F] – BKWine TV
Here’s the second part of the interview with Cesar Compadre on the future of Bordeaux. The video is in French. (Part 1 of the interview with Cesar Compadre on the Future of Bordeaux is here.) Google Translate of the description: Interview with Cesar Compadre (Part II) on the current situation and the future of Bordeaux. [...]
Who is Günther?
Since you read the Brief you may now have come to realise that bag in box wines are immensely popular in Sweden (and in the rest of Scandinavia). More than 50% of all wine is sold in the plastic bag in the carton. There is a magnificent spoof music video singing the praise of the [...]
100 wine videos on BKWine TV
We have published our 100th wine video on BKWine TV. We celebrated that with a press release that explains what it is and a bit about the background. Here it is: “BKWine recently published its one hundredth wine vide on BKWine TV. BKWine TV is a YouTube video channel with interviews with winemakers and reportage [...]
BKWine TV with subtitles coming
We now have some one hundred wine videos on BKWine TV. Depending on who we talk to the videos can be in Swedish, English or French. Our videos are now in the process of getting subtitles – in any language you would like! It is Google with their voice recognition software who are automatically generating [...]
Ntsiki Biyela winemaker at Stellekaya in Stellenbosch [E] – BKWine TV
An interview with the winemaker at the Stellenbosch winery Stellekaya, Ntsiki Biyela. She is one of the very few black women wine makers in South Africa, perhaps even the first. The winery is close to the town Stellenbosch which is also the name of the wine region. The vineyards are quite a bit a way [...]
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