On August 30 we launched our new book in Stockholm: Wine and the Environment, Organic, Biodynamic and Natural. The book is so far only published in Swedish so the real title is Vinet och miljön, ekologiskt, biodynamiskt och naturligt. We explain what all these different terms and principles are about, what the rules are, what [...]
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BKWine features (sort of) in a detective crime novel
It is actually the BKWine Scandinavian Wine Fair in Paris that is mentioned in the Swedish author Anna Jansson’s book “The Alchemy’s Eternal Fire”. We don’t have as prominent a role in the book as Gute Vineyard, a Swedish winery that is actually mentioned by name. Without revealing too many secrets we can say that [...]
BKWine twice on the list of AOL Travel’s best wine tours
Being twice mentioned on a list of the top ten wine tours is an honour that we certainly did not expect. We are very honoured and happy. But that is exactly what happened when AOL Travel made their list of, as they call it, “the ten best wine tasting holidays”. It is our tours to [...]
Book launch, our new book: Wine and the Environment
On august 30 we launched our new book in Stockholm: Wine and the Environment, Organic, Biodynamic and Natural. The book is so far only published in Swedish so the real title is Vinet och miljön, ekologiskt, biodynamiskt och naturligt. Just as the book title indicates it is a book about all the different types of [...]
What’s on at BKWine Tours (august 2012)
“World’s Top Wine Tours” – Travel + Leisure Magazine, on TravelAndLeisure.com 2012 wine tour program Bordeaux 19-23 September Tuscany 10-14 October Champagne 14-18 November 2013 wine tour program Chile & Argentina, 4-19 February 2013 South Africa, 1-11 March 2013 For more information please contact us on email or on phone (we’re on French time), or [...]
Top class lunches at wine estates
One of the best things with our wine tours (at BKWineTours.com) is the meals! (Well, and the wines of course!) On all our tour programs the food and gastronomy almost automatically get a very prominent place. We put a lot of effort into planning excellent and typical meals (lunches or dinners) that showcase the local [...]
Here are our beautiful “Best Wine Book in the World, for professionals” awards framed
We have not shared the beautiful pictures of it before, but we have mentioned it (I think even several times). Our last book, The Creation of a Wine (Ett vin blir till, in Swedish) first won the prize in Sweden as Best Wine Book of the Year 2010. We were very happy with that of [...]
What’s on at BKWine Tours – May 2012
“World’s Top Wine Tours” – Travel + Leisure Magazine, on TravelAndLeisure.com Currently available scheduled tours on the wine travel program. Do take a look at the custom designed tours too. 2012 wine tour program Bordeaux 19-23 September Tuscany 10-14 October Champagne 14-18 November 2013 wine tour program Chile & Argentina, 4-19 February 2013 South Africa, [...]
The most visited pages and articles in 2011
Here are the most visited English language pages on BKWine Magazine in 2011. Or to be really correct, since we re- launched the web site in the new design in early June, and excluding the blog page, newsletter archive page and other non-editorial pages: Short Gastronomic Glossary: English-French-Swedish The 2012 calendar with sexy winemakers launched [...]
Events calendar for wine events
We used to have a wine agenda at the end of each BKWine Brief. Now we don’t. Instead we have a brand new gleaming wine events calendar on BKWine Magazine. In it you will find dates and links for wine shows, wine tastings, wine and food tours and other wine related things. But it requires [...]
Britt Karlsson, BKWine, elected Wine Personality of the Year
Munskänkarna is the world’s biggest wine tasting club with almost 24 000 members (yes indeed!). Since a few years back they pick each year a person that they honour with the title “Wine Profile of the Year” (or Wine Personality of the Year). This year the honour was bestowed on Britt Karlsson, BKWine, when she, [...]
2,000,000 visitors on BKWine.com
Congratulations dear visitor number 2,000,000 on BKWine.com. The site recently counted its two millionth visitor! Statistics on the internet is always a bit tricky. First, there is not really and totally (totally!) accurate way to measure web statistics. Secondly, most statistics is “private” so you just have to trust those who talks about their stats. [...]
”World’s Best Wine Book for Professionals 2010” is awarded to BKWine for The Creation of a Wine! – from the press release
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 book competition Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2011. The Creation of a Wine is written by Britt Karlsson, with photography by [...]
BKWine as Nils Holgersson on WineToursimInFrance
WineToursimInFrance.com is a site dedicated to, yes, wine tourism in France. It seems mainly oriented to professionals and is read by many wine producers. We were interviewed recently by the editor, André Deyrieu, who published the article under the heading “The Nils Holgerssons of Wine Tourism”… (click on the link; use Google Translate if you [...]
BKWine makes "World’s Top Wine Tours" according to Travel and Leisure Magazine
Press release BKWine makes ”World’s Top Wine Tours” according to Travel and Leisure Magazine Paris, August 23, 2010 BKWine has just been singled out as one of the world’s best wine tour organisers by TravelAndLeisure.com (T+L). In their latest web feature T+L lists the “World’s Top Wine Tours” and BKWine is one of a handful [...]
BKWine in Wikipedia
Some fan (we assume) has been kind enough to write an entry on BKWine, or to be entirely correct, on Britt Karlsson in Wikipedia, the online dictionary. We are very flattered! We must admit that it is in the Swedish version of Wikipedia but we still certainly feel very honoured. Who knows, perhaps we’ll one [...]
BKWine in the press
We’ve had quite a good month, as far as press coverage goes. Dagens Industri (“the FT of Sweden”) featured BKWine in a half-page article, thanks to the tasting we’re doing at Vinisud. The Helsingborgs Dagblad (the local in Helsingborg, Britt’s birth city) had a one column text on Britt at the occasion of our book [...]
New (or renovated) photo blog for BKWine Photography
BKWine Photography, the name we’ve chosen for our wine, travel and food photo archive, has undergone a renovation. We’ve completely re-done the design for the photo blog, the Wine Picture Blog, http://wine-pictures.blogspot.com/. Easier to read, less cluttered. For those who are curious how you do a blog renovation we’ve written a post on how we [...]
Taste organic wines at Vinisud with BKWine on February 22
The other big wine fair to put in the agenda this winter is Vinisud (also in Montpellier), specialised in wines from the Mediterranean basin. Vinisud has asked BKWine to lead a wine tasting of organic (including biodynamic) wines. There will be range of wine producers represented from the different regions around the Mediterranean (Languedoc, Roussillon, [...]
An apple a day keeps the doctor away – No, make that a wine photo a day!
You may not know of our wine picture blog. It is a blog where we publish a new wine photograph every day. Or every day we’re in front of the computer. Each morning we pick a photo from our wine photo stock collection (we have some 30,000 images available on Alamy and on Photoshelter). Some [...]
BKWine on American radio
The Wine Fairy, or Wine and Dine Radio, www.winefairy.com is an internet radio station (podcast) that only talks about wine. You can also listen to it on iTunes. In a recent emission BKWine was “today’s guest” of the creator of the show, Lynn Krielow Chamberlain. You can listen to the program and the interview with [...]
BKWine Travel Stories: Bordeaux day 4
Chateau Grand Barrail Lamarzelle Figeac We’ve not yet gone across the river to the right bank, Rive Droite, so this morning we make the short trip over the Dordogne up to Saint Emilion: Chateau Grand Barrail Lamarzelle Figeac, not far from Figeac itself (and in the “secteur” in Saint Emilion called Figeac). Romuald Hebrard the [...]
BKWine Travel Stories: Bordeaux day 3
Lestrille Starting the day (third day in Bordeaux) at Chateau Lestrille – it’s a smallish property in the Entre Deux Mers run by the young and talanted vigneronne Estelle Roumage. It’s a family property since a few generations. Today they make a range of wines of all colours, for example a quite substantial Bordaux Clairet, [...]
BKWine Travel Stories: Bordeaux day 2
One that you might not have heard of: Clos des Quatre Vents in Margaux. Together with Chateau des Quatre Soeurs. It is two properties owned (and run) by Luc Thienpont (part of the famous Belgian family, various branches of which run several chateaux in Bordeaux). He used to run Chateau Labegorce Zede, but the family [...]
BKWine Travel Stories: Bordeaux day 1
They promised heavy rain storm today in Bordeaux, but when we arrive skies are clearing up. We arrive just in time for lunch… A very (very) good option if you arrive by train is L’Olivier de Clavel, just next to the train station. Outstanding value for money, two courses for 16 euro, including a glass [...]
BKWine Travel Stories: Epernay in spring. Day 1.
Lovely sunshine on the way here. A few promising days ahead, going up to 20 degrees, accoriding to forecasts. Avenue de Champagne perfect in sunset around 20.15 with deep blue sky. Still doing road work on the Avenue, but not too bad. In evening all the ‘houses’ are brilliantly lit: Moet & Chandon, Perrier-Jouet, Pol [...]
Anteprima – BKWine goes to Italy to taste Chianti Classico
By Åsa Johansson, BKWine’s reporter in Italy BKWine recently participated in the annual tasting of to-be-released Chianti Classico wines. The tasting is held in Florence in February every year in an ex-railway station called Stazione Leopolda, a beautiful setting for a wine tasting. 148 producers were presenting their wines to the trade and press, showing [...]
BKWine Travel Stories: Is Robert Parker honorary citizen of Chateauneuf
I wonder if Robert Parker is honorary citizen of Châteauneuf-du-Pape? If he’s not (and I imagine that’s the case), then perhaps he should be. He has probably done more than anyone else to revive the fortunes of Chateauneuf (at least according to some growers). A few decades ago (or even less, before Parker ‘discovered’ it) [...]
BKWine Travel Stories: Truffles, truffles and truffles – and Vacqueyras wine
It’s raining, but nothing can change our detirmination to go truffles hunting. We have our truffles man, whos well hidden at the end of a winding country road. Rain still keeps fallling when Eric and Polka (the truffles dog) takes us out to the truffle forest. By the way, truffles are surrounded by many “myths”, [...]
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