As if one needed convincing! We made an interview some time back (quite some time) with Sarah Ahmed on why Portuguese wines are so interesting. She had a whole bunch of good arguments. Watch the entire video interview with Sarah Ahmed, The Wine Detective, here: 5 reasons why Portuguese wines are great with Sarah Ahmed, [...]
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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 [...]
Interview with Mas Gabinele in Languedoc (Faugeres)
Found in a dusty corner (on YouTube) a video that we had done quite some time back but that has never been published on BKWine TV on the site. It is an interview with Thierry Rodriguez, a wine négociant that some years back also created his own winery in Faugeres and Saint Chinian. He has [...]
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 [...]
Interview with Cortes de Cima winemaker on BKWine TV
We have a new video interview with the Cortes de Cima winemaker Hamilton Reis on the new video channel on BKWine Magazine. Cortes de Cima is one of the new generation wineries in Alentejo in Portugal. It was founded some 25 years ago by a Danish-American couple: Hans-Kristian and Carrie Jorgensen. Hamilton talks to us [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Domaine Sainte Croix on BKWine TV
It’s been a bit quiet on the video front recently here at BKWine. Too much stuff to do… But now we’ve just published a new video on BKWine TV: An interview with Jon Bowen who makes wine together with his wife at Domaine Sainte Croix in the Languedoc (Hautes Corbieres). We met Jon & Elizabeth [...]
Jon Bowen at Domaine Sainte Croix [E] – BKWine TV
Jon and Elizabeth Bowen make wine at the Domaine Sainte Croix in the Languedoc region in the south of France. They are in the sub-region called Corbieres (or Haut Corbieres), not very far from Spain. Theyre near Narbonne and Perpignan. They started out six years to produce vins de terroir, coming from the UK. They [...]
Quinta do Crasto #2 with Manuel Lobo, winemaker [E] – BKWine TV
PART 2 of Quinta do Crasto interviews with Manuel Lobo de Vasconcellos, winemaker and oenologist at Crasto. Quinta do Crasto is in the Douro Valley in northern Portugal, the region best known for port wine, the Portuguese fortified wine. But it is also a wine country that makes excellent table wines. So, how do they [...]
Quinta do Crasto #1 with Tomas Roquette [E] – BKWine TV
PART 1 of Quinta do Crasto interviews. We begin with Tomas Roquette one of the owners. Tomas is the fourth generation at Quinta do Crasto. Crasto produces port wine since more than one hundred years and since 1994 also table wine with the same grape varieties as for port – more than a hundred different [...]
Wines from Portugal part 2 with Charles Metcalfe [E] – BKWine TV
PART 2 of the interview with Charles Metcalfe, who can be called the guru on Portuguese wines: on the excellent wine and food in Portugal today. Is Portugal perhaps a New World wine country (with all the new technology and new knowledge)? Charles says perhaps, but perhaps not. It is maybe more a question of [...]
Wines from Portugal part 1 with Charles Metcalfe [E] – BKWine TV
PART 1 of the interview with Charles Metcalfe, who can be called the guru on Portuguese wines: on the excellent wine and food in Portugal today. Charles also talks about the recent history of Portuguese wines. 20 years ago, when Charles and his wife Kathryn wrote their first book about Portuguese wines, there used to [...]
On cork: interview with Amorim [E] – BKWine TV
Cork in the bottle? Interview with Carlos de Jesus, marketing and communications director from Amorim, the worlds largest producer of natural cork. There has been a lot of criticism of cork in recent years, and people arguing that other type of stoppers are better: screw caps, plastic corks etc. Is cork a bad material to [...]
Niepoort Douro #2, Luis Seabra, winemaker [E] – BKWine TV
Interview (Part 2) with Luis Seabra responsible for the vineyards and the winemaking; the Niepoort winemaker. Were sitting at the brand new winery in the Tedo river valley, overlooking the terraced vineyards along the river and the Douro region impressively steep slopes. We are talking about the red wines and about the future of the [...]
Niepoort Douro #1, Luis Seabra, winemaker [E] – BKWine TV
Interview with Luis Seabra responsible for the vineyards and the winemaking; the Niepoort winemaker. Were sitting at the brand new winery in the Tedo river valley, overlooking the terraced vineyards along the river and the Douro region impressively steep slopes. The new winery was opened in 2007 and it has allowed them to do the [...]
Fattoria Poggerino #2, in Chianti, biodynamism by Piero Lanza [E] | BKWine TV
Part 2 of the interview with Piero Lanza, co-owner (together with his sister) and winemaker at Fattoria Poggerino, Radda in Chianti. In part 2 Piero explains what it means to be a biodynamic winery. Piero explains how he farms his vineyard with biodynamic principles, how he works with preparations and how he started with organic [...]
European Wine Bloggers Conference 09. How was it for you? (Full version) [E] – BKWine TV
Interviews with a handful of participants at the European Wine Bloggers Conference ( #EWBC ) that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in October/November 2009. What did you think about the conference? How was it for you?: Featuring: Miss Vicky Wine (Anne-Victoire Monrozier): http://www.missvickywine.blogspot.com/ Justin Roberts on sherry: http://jerezwine.com/ Maria da Assuncao Foy: http://terruswine.blogspot.com/ Julia Sevenich: [...]
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