It is quite fun to be part of the jury in wine competitions. It is also very good blind tasting practice. And above all, it is very humbling. Blind tasting is very difficult. In a way. On the other hand it is very simple. The only thing you can do is trust your own taste [...]
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Press release: The new book on organic wines by Britt and Per Karlsson wins Swedish and international awards
“Wine and the Environment, Organic, Biodynamic, and Natural”, the latest book by Britt and Per Karlsson (of BKWine), has won two prizes. It was first named “Best Wine Book for Professionals” in Sweden. Then it was awarded silver, second place, in the category “World’s Best Educational Wine Book 2012”. Both awards were given by the [...]
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 [...]
There’s a competition for just about everything, malolactic fermentation for example!
“The Lallemand Malolactic Fermentation Wine Competition 2012″ – This is probably the most original wine competition that we have heard of. It was organized for the second time by chemical company Lallemand in Madrid in February this year. The idea behind the competition is to make people (wine makers) aware of the importance of controlling [...]
Our “Best Wine Book” prize certificates
Bragging time? 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 (award?) in Sweden as Best Wine Book of the Year. Or if one should be [...]
Perhaps not quite the world’s best syrah but no doubt good wines
Syrah du Monde is a wine competition for wines made from the syrah grapes. No prize for guessing. As with all competitions, you can only win if you decide to take part in the competition so one should perhaps not take the part of “World’s Best” too literally. On the other hand, the wines that [...]
Participate in the Born Digital Wine Awards!
The Born Digital Wine Awards (BDWA) is a competition that aims to promote and honour good writing and imagery on wine that has been published online. It is open to anyone who produces content on wine online: wine bloggers, wine writers, video makers, photographers etc. The only condition to participate is that the contents have [...]
Are wines from Apulia set to become better known? BKWine to judge quality.
Apulia (Puglia in Italian), the “heel” of Italy, is not particularly well known for its wines today even if they do produce quite a lot of wine. It seems that the organisation Consorzio Puglia Best Wine has decided to change that situation. This autumn they will organise a big event called Apulia Wine Identity, to [...]
EasyJet and British Airways serve the best wines
A good idea not to focus on the business class wines in this recently held competition but instead on the wines served in Economy. How many of us fly these days in business…? The competition included 12 reds and 12 whites and the winners were perhaps not quite as expected: Winners for white wines: EasyJet [...]
Win a trip to the wine districts in California
If you live in the US you have the chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to San Francisco and the wine regions, with two nights at Mendocino. It is the American wine magazine The Wine Enthusiast, in collaboration with Mendocino Wine Company who organises the competition. It is not overly complicated – you just have [...]
The world’s best gamay
Gamay is the latest grape variety to get its own ”world’s best” competition. The ”Concours International du Gamay” (the gamay world championship) will take place on January 15, 2011 in Lyons. Unsurprisingly it is organised by Inter Beaujolais, the Beaujolais growers’ association. We hope that it can be a tool to spread the word that [...]
University wine tasting championship: ”20 sur vin”
“20 sur vin” was originally a wine tasting competition for the French Grandes Ecoles (the most prestigious university level schools). Since a few years back it has also been open to Cambridge and Oxford. For 2011 it will be broadened to also invite international competition. There will be contestants from USA (e.g. MIT Sloan, Harvard, [...]
We have won the prize for best wine book of the year!
We have just won the prize for BEST WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR for our book on wine growing and winemaking!! We are so happy and proud! Champagne coming at 19.00! On the book: The Creation of a Wine English edition next??
Belgium wins international wine tasting competition
Belgium emerged winner in the wine tasting competition organised by the French magazine La Revue du Vin de France. Curiously, the winner of the competition has always been the country in which the competition has been organised and this year it was in Atomium in Brussels. There was even a Swedish team that unfortunately did [...]
Swedish-Spanish wine wins Gold Medal in the Concours Mondial
Being Swedish we have to write about this of course. Rickard Enkvist is from Sweden but lives in the small village of Gaucin in the mountains above Malaga on the Spanish south coast. Some years back he bought a vineyard and became winemaker under the scorching Andalusian sun. This year two of his wines won [...]
20 Gold Medals and one Great Gold Medal to Argentina in Concours Mondial
Argentinian wines reaped a lot of rewards at the recently held Concours Mondial (“Brussels International Wine Competition”): 20 Gold Medals and one Great Gold Medal were given to wines from Argentina. In spite of its name the competition was this year held in Palermo (and both Britt and Per from BKWine was in the jury [...]
The World’s Best Chardonnay
Such a title always needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. In any competition it is only those who enter that compete. In any case, the competition Chardonnays du Monde recently awarded medals to the best wines. Here are the ten top scoring wines: – Chardonnay Morillon Trocken 2008, Weingut Johann Schneeberger – [...]
BKWine judges Coup de Coeur des Femmes Journalistes 2010
The wine cooperatives play an important role in the Languedoc-Roussillon. 25,000 growers belong to a cooperative and La Fédération Régionale de la Coopération du Langudoc Roussillon works hard to help, advice and enthuse its members. One of their initiatives is a yearly wine competition open to the various cooperatives. The wines that are best placed [...]
Prize winning Graves wines
Each year the Graves appellation organises a competition for its wines to select the wines that for the coming year will be used as examples and that will be put forward in the marketing of the appellation. This year 60 wines participated in the competition. The winning wines were: – Château Langlet 2007, Vignobles Kressmann [...]
World’s first malbec competition
It’s very popular with varietal wine competitions so for the first time in world history (!) there was recently an International Malbec Competition. Malbec perhaps not the world’s most wide-spread variety but you can find it in several different countries. These are the plantings: – Argentina 24,310 ha – France 6,630 ha – Chile 1,020 [...]
A Rose is a (new) Rose – or, a renovated wine site and musings on wine competitions
Anthony Rose is a highly respected British wine writer. He has recently launched a renovated version of his web site and blog with lots of information, well worth visiting. One of the articles on the site is “What’s your poison?”. It’s a story about the seminar organised by the Australians for a group of 20 [...]
International wine competition in Bordeaux – Councours des Citadelles
Les Citadelles du Vin (www.citadellesduvin.com) is a wine competition that takes its name from the Citadelle in Bourg and it is in Côte de Bourg that it takes place during three days every year. The latest edition was in June 2009. This year they had decided to launch a Grand Prix to be awarded to [...]
World’s best syrah
Syrah du Monde is the competition for wines made from the syrah grape. It is of course held in the Rhône valley. This year’s top ten wines included syrahs from South Africa, Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Switzerland (!), USA and Italy. Not bad. You can find the full list of winners here: www.syrah-du-monde.com
More wine prizes : women journalists’ trophy
Coup de Coeur des Femmes Journalistes is the name of another competition where we recently were part of the judging panel. The competition is run by the wine cooperatives in four of the départements in southern France: l’Hérault, Aude, Pyrénées-Orientales and Gard. In other words, it covers Roussillon, Languedoc and parts of the southern Rhône [...]
Concours Mondial de Bruxelles – prize winning wines
At the end of April Valencia was host to the 16th edition of the annual wine competition Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. CMB has grown from a modest start in 1994 to become one of the world’s biggest wine competitions. The first edition had 861 wines. This year they had over 6000 wines and spirits from [...]
Manjari chocolate on Brittany sablé with black figs – gold medal winner
That delicious sounding desert was the winner in the Roussillon Dessert Trophy, served together with AOC Rivesaltes Domaine Gauby Caricia 2005. The winning entry was created by Thibaut Panas and Anne Coquellin from Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saison in England. They beat teams from e.g. Belgium, Germany, France and Denmark. The competition wants to promote successful [...]
Best French sommelier competition on November 9 &10 in Perpignan
The finals for the Best French Sommelier competition will this year take place in Perpignan, hosted by the Wines of Roussillon. 12 candidates, double up from the last issue of the competition in 2006 will for the trophy this year. More info from the CIVR or ABCommunication.
Mediterranean meeting for muscat with pudding promotion
Excuse us the heading – it is question of the third annual rencontres for Muscat VDN wines (vins doux naturels) together with the ‘Le Roussillon Dessert Trophy’ that will take place in Perpignan on January 31 to February 2, 2009 in Roussillon. It is an occasion for professionals, for wine buyers, and for the public [...]
Scandinavian Grand Slam in chef-Olympics Bocuse d’Or
This year, for the first time ever, the Bocuse d’Or competition (the “World Cuisine Contest”) was held outside of Lyons in France. It took place in Stavanger in Norway. The Bocuse d’Or is a competition for professional chefs from all over the world. The winner in this year’s competition was Geir Skeie from the Sovold [...]
Norwegian wins Nordic sommelier trophy
Meret Bøe took first place in the Nordic Sommelier Championship recently held in Norway. She is working as sommelier at the Bagatelle restaurant in Oslo. Second and third place was won by Sören Polonius (Sweden, Restaurant F12) and Susanne Berglund Krantz (Sweden, Gondolen). More info vinkelner.com
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