For printed publications there are in many countries at least a quasi-official reader statistics for magazines and papers (or on circulation or print run numbers). In Sweden this is called “TS Controlled” edition, in other countries something else. This is primarily interesting for advertiser to evaluate the reach of advertising. But it is also interesting [...]
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5 million articles read, yes, but how should you interpret statistics on the internet?
Are the statistics true and accurate? And comparable? We recently passed the five million page views mark, but how does one interpret the numbers on visitor statistics? It is notoriously difficult, both because of what the numbers actually mean varies and because there is no “official” statistics. Per explains more about Internet statistics in this [...]
Five million articles read on BKWine… On web statistics
We have passed 5 million “page views”, but it is difficult to interpret web statistics We have recently passed the five million “page loads” mark, which roughly can be interpreted as the number of articles read on BKWine. We say thank you to all the readers! Sweden’s first wine site! (?) Five million article read, [...]
Welcome to the CWW, Magnus Reuterdahl
One of BKWine’s reporters and writers joins the Circle of Wine Writers Magnus Reuterdahl, one of our contributors, has just been admitted to the Circle of Wine Writers. We say a big welcome Magnus! Magnus is a frequent writer and reporter here on BKWine Magazine as well as on his own blog Magnus Reuterdahls vinblogg [...]
Travel, wine and food on the internet, how to fit it all together
The “wine bloggers conference” is after all much easier to say than the Digital Wine Communications Conference… How can you communicate, tell stories, write articles on wine, travel and food and make them more engaging and readable? That was the theme for one of the panel debates at the #EWBC in Izmir in Turkey recently. [...]
There were more wine bloggers around than what we thought!
We have made a list with all Swedish wine blogs. All that we could find. We thought that we would find perhaps 30 or 40 wine blogs in Sweden when we started. It turned out to be many more! In the first version we have 65 wine blogs. And then, with the help of others, [...]
Can you make an honest judgement on a wine if you don’t know what it is?
The question is fundamental to the whole concept of blind tastings. There are many arguments for saying that it is virtually impossible to give a fair judgement about a wine if you taste it totally blind, without having the least bit of information about it. At the same time there are as many arguments for [...]
Swedish wine making waves in Italy
It is not (yet) the wines made by Göran Amnegård at the Blaxta vineyard south of Stockholm (Sweden) that has reached Italy but it is his reputation. Blaxta is perhaps the Swedish vineyards that has achieved the most international attention, especially his sweet ice wines. That may have to do both with his talents as [...]
Wine journalism, ethics and ”disclosure”. Is it important?
Sparked by a twitter discussion recently and by the fact that the debate pops up every so often (in particular on American wine blogs!) I though it could (possibly) be interesting to bring up this issue with “disclosure” again. “Disclosure” is mostly interpreted as that when you write about a wine you say: “I received [...]
Swedish Wine Blogs
Some free help from us to wine marketing people This is our attempt to make an (as much as possible) comprehensive list of Swedish wine blogs. On BKWine Magazine (this site) you can find this list in the menu Resources > Swedish Wine Blogs. Why on earth would you be interested in a list of [...]
Do you have to “know” about a wine to be able to judge it fairly?
Do you need prior knowledge (about the wine region, producer etc) as a wine writer to evaluate a wine? Can you taste a wine totally blind and still give a competent tasting note? Or, if you do NOT taste blind are your tasting notes still reliable? This is all interesting but difficult questions. With no [...]
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 [...]
The “wine media power list” of Swedish and international wine communicators
BKWine among WBI’s Major Wine Media Players WBI looks at Scandinavia, China, Russia, Germany, UK, US and Brazil Meininger’s Wine Business International (WBI) is an eminently readable magazine about … the business of wine. In their June issue they looked at wine media across the globe and attempted to identify which are the major players [...]
I won a Lalau wine award, but not the Roeder one
We didn’t win the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards 2012 but instead the In Vino Amicitas Grand Prix Lalau pour L’Amitié entre les Vins Congratulations to Andrew Jefford and Michael Fridjhon and several others for winning the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards 2012. A great achievement to very deserving writers. There are the awards [...]
On the travelog travel blog
You do read our travel blog, don’t you? You really should! With info around wine travel (not only our own) and other fun things. For example, some recent articles: Fantastic Sicily – new wine travel destination! James Halliday’s Wine Companion on BKWine wine tours. James Halliday is probably Australia’s most famous wine writer. He has [...]
Does it matter for a wine blog if the wines you write about are samples?
Is it important or irrelevant with “disclosure” of free samples etc? Sparked by a twitter discussion and by yesterday’s text on French wine bloggers I though it could (possibly) be interesting to bring up this issue with “disclosure” again. “Disclosure” is mostly interpreted as that when you write about a wine you say “I received [...]
Wine bloggers: profile, motivation and influence
A survey of French wine bloggers Guillaume Lempérière has recently published a study on French wine bloggers. It is part of his marketing research work at the Rouen Business School. Here are some of his findings (just a selection of some of the things I found most interesting). The objective is to see how blogs [...]
A wine blog to visit: Svenssonsmakaren
Bear with me for just a little bit. I am not crazy. Svenssonsmakaren is a Swedish wine blog but I do recommend that you go there and take a look. It is not easy to make pictures of wine bottles or glasses (or food), especially not if you are at a wine tasting or dinner. [...]
BKWine reporters at large – more, much more on wine
Early this year we “recruited” a team of wine lovers to help us cover more and better what happens in the world of wine, and in particular in Scandinavia. The Scandinavian market is peculiar in that all media attention is focussed on the monthly launches at the Systembolaget monopoly. Very few media bother about much [...]
One of 900 million? Like us on Facebook!
Are you one of the 900 million people on Facebook? Then it would be nice if you “liked” our new Facebook pages. We actually have four of them: www.facebook.com/BKWineMagazine – where we write ”editorial” things, for example on articles and other things on BKWine Magazine, our editorial site. www.facebook.com/BKWineTours – This is about our wine [...]
The most read articles in January 2012
Here is the list of the top ten articles for January, i.e. those that had the most readers (in English): Wine Tweeting 1: how to get started on Wine Twitter 11 wine regions to discover (or rediscover) during 2012 The 2012 calendar with sexy winemakers launched A selection of “grower’s champagne” producers Wine tweeting 2: [...]
Freshness and minerality – What does the word mineral mean?
What’s in a word? What is “minerality” in a wine? It is very fashionable nowadays to talk about the minerality of a wine. It is easy to describe a wine as having minerality but it is more difficult to explain what it really means. Wine tasters in all countries use the word. In the past, [...]
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 [...]
Wine writer seeks strength in wine
There has recently been a curious “debate” on one of the major Swedish wine blogs on what is “the strongest wine in the world”, naturally fermented, excluding fortified wines. It started some time back with the blogger / wine writer Mikael Molstad, who writes for one of Sweden’s biggest daily paper, Svenska Dagbladet. It began [...]
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 [...]
The wine shops on the internet, are they all rubbish?
This will give you yet another curious view on the Swedish wine scene and the Swedish journalist community. In Sweden there is a retail monopoly. But since a few years back, thanks to EU regulations, Swedes are allowed to buy wine from sellers who are based in other EU countries. This has sparked a budding [...]
Fine Magazine on Bordeaux, exclusively for readers of The Brief
Fine Magazine is a super-luxury-premium wine magazine (that is actually published in Finland!). Their latest issue is a special celebration of Bordeaux wines. The write, among other things, about “the 100 Best Bordeaux Wines Ever Made” (well, let the hyperbole pass for this time). There are articles on several of the most exclusive estates: Château [...]
Spiced up wine writing – new contributor: Stuart George
We are happy to introduce a new contributor to BKWine Magazine: Stuart George. Stuart has worked as a wine merchant, travelling extensively through the world’s wine regions, before turning to writing. In 2003 he was the UK Young Wine Writer of the Year. He has judged at wine competitions in Austria, Brazil, Chile, France, Spain [...]
Jeff Leve, of The Wine Cellar Insider, new contributor on BKWine Magazine
We are very happy to introduce Jeff Leve as a new contributor to BKWine Magazine. Jeff Leve is founder and editor of The Wine Cellar Insider, a wine site focusing on Bordeaux wine, and also touching on the Rhone Valley and California. Jeff Leve has travelled to the Bordeaux wine region to barrel taste over [...]
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. [...]
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