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Un Château en Ville, a new wine bar in Bordeaux

Château Lestrille is a family-run chateau in Entre-deux-Mers, the region between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers. This is a region

What’s on at BKWine Tours (June 2018)

Autumn 2018 Champagne, September 26-30 Bordeaux, October 10-14 Douro Valley in Portugal, October 17-21 South Africa, November 9-19 Winter 2019 Chile-Argentina,

Challenging Chianti: Morellino di Scansano in Maremma makes some great Tuscan wines too | Britt on Forbes

The coastal region of Toscana, called Maremma, is beautiful but not as well known for its wines as Chianti or

The Mouton Mystery: Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1945, fake or real?

A purchase of a special wine from the cellar of a special house with special owners, a story told by

Wine Fair with Swedish (!) Wines on July 27-28

Sometimes people as “Do you make wine in Sweden?” A fair question. The climate is obviously not ideal. The answer

Top champagne Penet Chardonnet should be enjoyed as wines, not just bubbly | Britt on Forbes

A lot of champagnes are drunk at occasions when all that matters are the bubbles. But if you open a

Assessing wine quality and the ageing potential of a wine; the pursuit of the perfectly mature wine

Taste is by definition subjective, but that should not hinder us from using a more objective approach when discussing wine

Oil spray in the vineyard to fight weeds

During our spring wine tours we have visited the small and interesting Champagne house Philipponnat. On our visit in early

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Un Château en Ville, a new wine bar in Bordeaux

By Britt Karlsson on July 17, 2018 in News

Château Lestrille is a family-run chateau in Entre-deux-Mers, the region between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers. This is a region that most people only pass through going from Bordeaux to Saint Emilion. But if you stop you will discover a lot of good wine producers. One of our favourites here is Lestrille, located in the […]

What’s on at BKWine Tours (June 2018)

By Per Karlsson on July 16, 2018 in News

Autumn 2018 Champagne, September 26-30 Bordeaux, October 10-14 Douro Valley in Portugal, October 17-21 South Africa, November 9-19 Winter 2019 Chile-Argentina, January 20 – February 4, 2019 South Africa, February 16-24, 2019 New Zealand, March 11-26, 2019 For more information please contact us on email or on phone (we’re on French time), or go to […]

Challenging Chianti: Morellino di Scansano in Maremma makes some great Tuscan wines too | Britt on Forbes

By Britt Karlsson on July 12, 2018 in Wine Regions

The coastal region of Toscana, called Maremma, is beautiful but not as well known for its wines as Chianti or Montalcino. But there are, in fact, a number of famous wines. In Bolgheri, Sassicaia started the Super Tuscan trend in the 1970s, a trend that totally changed the Tuscan wine industry. A bit further south […]

The Mouton Mystery: Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1945, fake or real?

By Stuart George on July 11, 2018 in More

A purchase of a special wine from the cellar of a special house with special owners, a story told by BKWine Magazine guest writer, as well as exclusive wine expert at Vins Extraordinaires, Stuart George. Faringdon House is a 14,510 square feet house in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England. The house is Grade I-listed, protected as a […]

Wine Fair with Swedish (!) Wines on July 27-28

By Britt Karlsson on July 10, 2018 in News

Sometimes people as “Do you make wine in Sweden?” A fair question. The climate is obviously not ideal. The answer is “Yes.” I believe there is well less than 100 hectares in total, but quite a few producers. If you happen to be in the south of Sweden on July 27-28 you have a unique […]

Top champagne Penet Chardonnet should be enjoyed as wines, not just bubbly | Britt on Forbes

By Per Karlsson on July 6, 2018 in Wine Producer Profiles

A lot of champagnes are drunk at occasions when all that matters are the bubbles. But if you open a high quality champagne with a strong character it deserves more attention. It should actually be drunk as a “normal” wine. And why not with food? When you meet Alexandre Penet at Champagne Penet-Chardonnet in Verzy […]

Assessing wine quality and the ageing potential of a wine; the pursuit of the perfectly mature wine

By Mattias Schyberg on July 4, 2018 in More

Taste is by definition subjective, but that should not hinder us from using a more objective approach when discussing wine and winnings. What we tend to like varies. Some prefer to drink wine with a lot of maturation tones, others to drink wine young. And in addition, there is a whole spectrum of taste preferences […]

Oil spray in the vineyard to fight weeds

By Britt Karlsson on July 3, 2018 in News

During our spring wine tours we have visited the small and interesting Champagne house Philipponnat. On our visit in early May we saw people working in their prestigious vineyard Clos des Goisses with knapsack sprayers on their backs. Obviously they were doing some kind of treatment. It turned out to be weed control with a […]

Young people drinking wine in a wine bar

The world’s wine consumption has grown a tiny little bit in 2017

By Britt Karlsson on July 2, 2018 in News

IWSR, an English company specializing in market research in the beverage industry, has published figures for global alcohol and wine consumption in 2017. Total alcohol consumption increased very modestly by 0.01%, but as it decreased in 2016, this small increase is still positive for the industry. It was mainly wine and cider that accounted for […]

Céline Gueguen with her scay vines (or chardonnay)

Sacy, a rare grape in northern Burgundy

By Britt Karlsson on June 30, 2018 in News

Unusual grapes can pop-up when you least expect it. On one of our tours in Chablis in the spring, a little-known grape called sacy made an appearance during the tasting of Domaine Frédéric and Céline Gueguen. Of course, this was not a Chablis. Some Chablis producers, including Domaine Gueguen, also make wine outside the Chablis […]

A glass of Italian bubbly wine being poured

Mini-Prosecco will be served on French TGV trains

By Britt Karlsson on June 28, 2018 in News

Champagne producers would like to make us believe that Prosecco’s huge successes does not affect champagne. That champagne and prosecco play in different leagues. It is possible, but hard to believe 100%. At least Prosecco has now succeeded with the feat of entering the French high speed TGV train bistro wagons. You can now buy […]

Hemel en Aarde Valley, Walker Bay, South Africa

Renaissance for wine from Zimbabwe; celebrating with sparkling?

By Britt Karlsson on June 27, 2018 in News

Wine production conditions have hardly been ideal in recent decades, but now that there is light at the end of the tunnel, at least one producer has decided to blow life in the dormant wine industry in Zimbabwe. Jonathan Passaportis, owner of Winelands of Bushman Rock, the almost only surviving vineyard, believes in Zimbabwe’s future […]

Champagne corks become more like mushrooms with age

Champagne-Goliath has draconian demands on IGP Ile-de-France-David

By Britt Karlsson on June 25, 2018 in News

IGP Ile de France is close to an agreement with Champagne. IGP Ile-de-France is a new IGP since 2017. Ile-de-France is the region around Paris and a (very small) part of the vineyards is actually in Paris suburbs. With new plantations in progress, the IGP may soon be around 70 hectares. But the new IGP […]

Screwcaps increase in popularity to reach 30% market share according to a study

By Britt Karlsson on June 17, 2018 in News

More and more wine bottles are sealed with screwcap, according to a survey. The screwcap has increased its market share in the world by 13.2% from 2012. Today it has 29.6% of the world market. In total, 30 billion bottles are sold annually in the world, of which 9 billion are closed with a screwcap. […]

Petra, revival in the Tuscan winery

By Åsa Johansson on June 12, 2018 in Wine Producer Profiles

The Petra winery in Val di Cornia along the Tuscan coast is making a fresh start. Today, they focus more on elegance than power. Petra presented their new wines at the end of March in Milan. BKWine Magazine´s Åsa Johansson attended the tasting. “We aim for brighter, fresher wines that better reflect our terroir,” says […]

Sexual confusion in the vineyard, in a new simpler version

By Britt Karlsson on June 12, 2018 in News

When we visited Château Pichon-Baron, grand cru classé in Pauillac, recently we saw a small canister in the vineyard that we have never seen before. This canister is called CheckMate Puffer and is a new way of distribute pheromones that protect against the grape worm with the method with the curious name “sexual confusion”. The […]

Gennaro Nasti – the pizza maker from Naples who took Paris by storm

By Åsa Johansson on June 11, 2018 in Food and Wine

Gennaro Nasti left Naples for Paris, where in 2016 he opened Bijou, luxury pizzas in designer decorated restaurant. To give you an idea, Bijou was voted Pizzeria of the year in 2017 by the Italian magazine Gambero Rosso. Gennaro is an expert in fermentations, and his pizza doughs are famous for being perfect. He continues […]

Cleaning barrels with sulphur and a candle

“Organic” sulphur to be launched next year

By Britt Karlsson on June 9, 2018 in News

Sulphur is something that is naturally present in our environment and it is a product that is allowed for all wine producers – organic as well as conventional – both to combat fungal diseases in the vineyard and as an antioxidant in the finished wine. However, there is a certain demand from organic producers for […]

Ripe Cabernet Franc, Domaine Charles Joguet, Clos de la Dioterie, Chinon, Loire, France

The top-10 most popular wine grapes in America are…? | Britt on Forbes

By Britt Karlsson on June 8, 2018 in Grape Varieties

It will hardly surprise anyone that Chardonnay and Cabernet are (still) the most popular grape varieties in the USA. The exiting newcomer on the podium is Pinot Noir that is now solidly in third place. This is not least due to the fabulous success it has had in Oregon. When it comes to which grapes […]

Hail storms again, and rain

By Britt Karlsson on June 7, 2018 in News

A very violent hailstorm with huge hailstones hit Bordeaux on May 26th. It is as yet unclear how many hectares of vineyards have been affected, but probably at least a few thousand in southern Médoc, Bourg, Blaye and in Charente, the Cognac region. Vines that would have been in bloom the following week have now […]

The winery at Viña Maquis, Colchagua Valley, Chile

What you need to know when visiting Santa Cruz in Chile’s wine country

By Per Karlsson on June 6, 2018 in News

Chile is a very exciting wine country today, really worth visiting. When you come to Chile you will surely also come to Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is a small town in the Colchagua Valley in Chile. It has around 40 000 inhabitants. It is the almost inevitable base-camp to explore the famous Colchagua Valley, and, […]

Wine Fair with wines from Armenia, Georgia, Macedonia and Moldova, on June 8

By Britt Karlsson on June 5, 2018 in News

Armenia, Georgia, Macedonia and Moldova all make wine but they are completely unknown as wine countries to most wine consumers. They now work together to market their wines. The wine industries in the four countries have gained momentum in recent years, and now they want to develop both their exports and their tourism. Georgia is […]

Export wine, yes, but at what price?

By Britt Karlsson on May 31, 2018 in News

Wine is found in all possible price ranges. One is as often amazed at how inexpensive wines can be as at how expensive wines can be. At what prices do different wine countries sell their wines in the export market? We recently saw some interesting statistics for 2017 that compare export prices for the most […]

Birigit Braunstein, Weingut Birigit Braunstein

Birgit Braunstein from Burgenland in Austria with elegant and surprising wines

By Mattias Schyberg on May 29, 2018 in Wine Producer Profiles

Birgit Braunstein lives in the village of Purbach in Austria, located in the Burgenland region. Her family has a long tradition of growing grapes and making wine. The tradition goes back to the 17th century, but Birgit’s first vintage under her own name saw the light only in 1996. Since 2000, the farming has been […]

Grape reception at Château Bernateau, Bordeaux

World wine production low and consumption stable 2017, some statistics

By Britt Karlsson on May 29, 2018 in News

OIV, the International Organization for Vine and Wine, recently presented the figures for the wine production in the world in 2017. The world has now 7.6 million hectares of vines; this figure includes table grapes and raisins. The production of wine in 2017 was 250 million hectolitres. This volume is historically low due to the […]

Chateau Carbonnieux 1992, Pessac Leognan, Graves, Bordeaux, cork

Uncorked: Good wines we have tasted recently, May 2018

By Britt Karlsson on May 28, 2018 in Tastings

Uncorked: Under this heading we collect various wines that we have tasted, and liked, recently. It can be wines that we have had during dinner at home, at wine tastings, press lunches, visits to vineyards, or other occasions. We describe the wines just with a few short sentences, tasting notes that we hope will give […]

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