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New rules for additives in organic wine

New rules came into force for vinification of organic wines on January 1st, 2019. Six new additives are allowed. Autolysate

World wine production reaches record level in 2018, consumption is stable

The brand new numbers for 2018 show a positive picture. Wine production reached a record level in 2018 reaching 293

Brunello di Montalcino 2014, a selection of the best

2014 is one of the most difficult vintages in memory in Brunello di Montalcino. It was the year when northern

Good and great from Chablis, from petit to grand cru

"No thanks, not Chardonnay, but yes please, a glass of chablis" The wine producers in Chablis love the Swedes and the

Contrasting vintages, 2017, 2016, 2015, from Monteraponi and Montevertine in Tuscany

Monteraponi and Montevertine celebrates with festive elegance Every year, when the two wine estates Montevertine and Monteraponi in Radda in Chianti

Dream Big! Pinot noir from California, selected producers

The California Wine Tasting in March 2019 was a big event with no less than 135 wine producers present. The

Grenache Association promotes a southern virtuoso worthy of more appreciation

The Grenache grape is a champion of the south. It can manage scorching heat, strong winds and drought. Just a

“With Anselmo Mendes comes spring”, with alvarinho from Portugal

Very literally so this year, when Anselmo Mendes held a tasting on our much-anticipated spring equinox. Given the feel of

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New rules for additives in organic wine

By Britt Karlsson on April 18, 2019 in News

New rules came into force for vinification of organic wines on January 1st, 2019. Six new additives are allowed. Autolysate of yeast: Nourishes the yeast during the alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. Inactivated yeast: Nourishes the yeast during alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. Potato protein: Vegetable protein used as a fining agent. Provides a faster and often […]

World wine production reaches record level in 2018, consumption is stable

By Per Karlsson on April 14, 2019 in More

The brand new numbers for 2018 show a positive picture. Wine production reached a record level in 2018 reaching 293 million hectolitres, a good recovery from a catastrophic 2017. The biggest wine producers in the world in 2018 are Italy, France, Spain and the USA. Global vineyard surface remained stable with Spain having the world’s […]

Brunello di Montalcino 2014, a selection of the best

By Åsa Johansson on April 10, 2019 in Wine Regions

2014 is one of the most difficult vintages in memory in Brunello di Montalcino. It was the year when northern Europe enjoyed sun while the Italian summer was more like in Scotland. Rain, rain and rain. Add cold and ta da: you have the vintage 2014 in a nutshell. We give you here BKWine Magazine’s […]

Good and great from Chablis, from petit to grand cru

By Sven-Olof Johansson on April 9, 2019 in Wine Regions

“No thanks, not Chardonnay, but yes please, a glass of chablis” The wine producers in Chablis love the Swedes and the Swedes love Chablis. So it is. Eight percent of the production in Chablis is gobbled up in a Swedish home, in the sailboat, on the beach or on a picnic. Although the wine producer […]

Contrasting vintages, 2017, 2016, 2015, from Monteraponi and Montevertine in Tuscany

By Åsa Johansson on April 8, 2019 in Wine Producer Profiles

Monteraponi and Montevertine celebrates with festive elegance Every year, when the two wine estates Montevertine and Monteraponi in Radda in Chianti present their new vintages, it is a celebration. A Sangiovese celebration. For if there’s something they’re good at, Martino Manetti and Michele Braganti with their other halves Liviana Midollini and Alessandra Deiana, it is […]

Dream Big! Pinot noir from California, selected producers

By Carl-Erik Kanne on April 7, 2019 in Wine Regions

The California Wine Tasting in March 2019 was a big event with no less than 135 wine producers present. The title chosen for the event, Dream Big, promised a lot. One had better set priorities and my priority was to focus on pinot noir from as many interesting producers as possible. Why then pinot noir? […]

Grenache Association promotes a southern virtuoso worthy of more appreciation

By Britt Karlsson on April 6, 2019 in News

The Grenache grape is a champion of the south. It can manage scorching heat, strong winds and drought. Just a few years ago it was the most planted red variety in the world. Now it is only number five among red grapes with 163,000 hectares, after Cabernet Sauvignon (341,000 ha), Merlot (266,000 ha), Tempranillo (231,000 […]

“With Anselmo Mendes comes spring”, with alvarinho from Portugal

By Sven-Olof Johansson on April 5, 2019 in Wine Producer Profiles

Very literally so this year, when Anselmo Mendes held a tasting on our much-anticipated spring equinox. Given the feel of Anselmo Mendes’ wines, it was a particularly suitable combination. Fortunately, it was a sunny day but it was a northerly wind that tugged on our coats when we took shelter in Adam & Albin’s Stockholm […]

A view over the landscape in Tuscany with a church

Chianti Classico Collection: fantastic 2016 and difficult 2017

By Åsa Johansson on April 4, 2019 in Wine Regions

Also Chianti Classico has a “primeur season”, just like Bordeaux. But in Chianti Classico it is perhaps even more interesting because most of the wines are actually finished and bottled, and not the barely-finished-fermenting wines (with some exaggeration) that are shown in Bordeaux, which often have another one or two years in barrel in front […]

Minvino, enriched water adapted for wine, an evaluation

By Mattias Schyberg on April 3, 2019 in Tastings

If you put great emphasis on wine and food and how it matches then you might also need to think about what you choose for water? This is, in any case, the idea behind the newly started company Minvino. They have launched four different waters, each of which is said to be adapted to a […]

Are South African wines finally about to get a bit more expensive?

By Britt Karlsson on April 2, 2019 in News

There is no doubt about it. South African wines have been too cheap for too long. Therefore, it was uplifting to read the report on South African wine exports 2018 from WoSA (Wines of South Africa). The export value is finally increasing, after many years of immobility. WoSA has struggled to make this happen for […]

Six new Master of Wine, including from Sweden and Denmark

By Per Karlsson on March 30, 2019 in News

Six very fresh Masters of Wine has just received their diplomas from the venerable English institution. So now there are 384 MW in total. The happy new masters are Edouard Baijot, Nicholas Jackson, Brendan Jansen, Jonas Röjerman, Harriet Tindal and Jonas Tofterup. Congratulations to all of them. Extra special congratulations to Jonas and Jonas. Jonas […]

Toasting oak barrels with fire at a cooperage

French coopers honours California

By Britt Karlsson on March 20, 2019 in News

The French Coopers’ Association (Fédération des Tonneliers de France) recently held its annual meeting in Napa Valley, California. It was the first time they gathered outside France. That the meeting took place in Napa is not a coincidence. It was the Californian wine industry that gave new life to the French cooperage (barrel making) industry […]

Grapes in a vineyard in Veneto ready for harvest

Is Prosecco a grape or an origin?

By Britt Karlsson on March 17, 2019 in News

A Prosecco debate rages in both Australia and New Zealand. The big question is whether Prosecco should be considered as being a grape variety or a geographical origin. Up until 2009, Prosecco was the name of the grape with which the sparkling wine Prosecco was produced in north-eastern Italy. But then the Italians changed the […]

Wine Paris, finally Paris has a major wine fair

By Britt Karlsson on February 28, 2019 in News

Paris’ first major professional wine fair, Wine Paris, took place on 11-13 February. Many consider it about time that the French capital hosts a large wine fair. Wine Paris is a merger of Wine Vision and Vinisud. Wine Vision is a fair that made its debut in Paris in February 2018 with exhibitors from France’s […]

Bottles "sur lattes" in a cellar in Champagne

A wine tour to Champagne like no other!

By Per Karlsson on February 20, 2019 in News

We will of course have a wine tour to Champagne this fall. If you are a champagne enthusiast then you want to go there sooner or later. There are many ways to do that. Travel on your own. Go with some tour operator, BKWine or someone else. And other options. Everything will be different, you […]

Foglia tonda wine producers attracting a lot of attention

Foglia tonda, who dares to bet on the unknown Tuscan grape with the round leaves?

By Åsa Johansson on February 19, 2019 in Grape Varieties

A wine does not have to have strong colour to be good, just look at pinot noir and nebbiolo. But it helps, at least if one goes with many consumers’ preconceived ideas. If one were to judge by the colour, foglia tonda would be among the most treasured grapes, but instead the grape has almost […]

Rebecca Gibb at WineParis on Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon blanc, loved and maligned, but who makes the best? | Britt on Forbes

By Britt Karlsson on February 18, 2019 in Grape Varieties

Sauvignon Blanc is one of the most popular grape varieties in the world. With 123,000 hectares it is in fact the third most planted white variety in the world, after the Spanish grape Airen (218,000 hectares) and Chardonnay (210,000). France has the biggest plantings, followed by New Zealand, Chile and South Africa. It is a […]

Piedmont’s treasure of lesser-known native grape varieties

By Sara Nässén on February 17, 2019 in Grape Varieties

Piedmont has a wealth of little-known traditional varieties. Time to discover them! The wine region Piedmont in north-western Italy is best known for its powerful Nebbiolo wines Barolo and Barbaresco, its fruity Barbera and sweet Moscato wines. But the region has much more to offer. Piedmont hosts an impressive range of indigenous (autochthonous) grape varieties […]

Rålund blueberry wine producer Li Holmberg

A big surprise: Rålund, wine made from blueberries

By Sven-Olof Johansson on February 16, 2019 in Wine Producer Profiles

“The wine world’s outsider, literally” Imagine starting a journey in Jerez down in the sherry triangle and finishing it up among the riesling vineyards in Piesport, Germany. You will then have travelled almost two thousand three hundred kilometres and covered most of Europe’s vineyards. That’s what you might have thought anyway. If you continue the […]

Vineyards, a winery and mountains in Franschhoek, South Africa

The giant Distell in South Africa is investing in premium wines

By Britt Karlsson on February 14, 2019 in News

Distell is South Africa’s largest wine producer. With brands such as Alto, Nederburg, Durbanville Hills, Plaisir de Merle, Pongrácz, Fleur du Cap, Allesverloren, Zonnebloem, Two Oceans, Drostdy-Hof and others, the company accounts for a not insignificant part of the entire South African wine production. Now all the premium wines of Distell will be managed separately. […]

Street art, graffiti, in Valparaiso in Chile

Street art to promote Chilean wine in Valparaiso

By Britt Karlsson on February 7, 2019 in News

The mythical Chilean port city of Valparaiso is a fascinating city in many ways, not least thanks to the artistic street art that gives the colourful city even more colour. Now the wine is also represented. In November, a group of talented street artist were asked by some Chilean wine producers to create large murals […]

Ripe merlot grapes on the vine in Saint Emilion, Bordeaux

Organic nurseries: It is time to be organic from the very beginning

By Britt Karlsson on February 5, 2019 in News

Today, an organic wine farmer who wants to plant new vines can buy the same vines from the nursery as a conventional wine farmer. But this will change. New rules, although not until 2035, will require organic wine producers to buy organic certified plants. The nurseries are already preparing. And the authorities are busy writing […]

Oak barrels with Burgundy wine ageing in the cellars of Chanson, Beaune

Burgundy shows off its best figures

By Britt Karlsson on January 31, 2019 in News

For the lover of statistics and/or the lover of Burgundy wines, we have found a handy and updated summary of all relevant figures concerning the wines of Burgundy, from Chablis to Mâconnais (Beaujolais not included). Burgundy has 84 appellations, which is 23% of all France’s wine appellations. Grapes are grown on almost 30,000 hectares. 50% […]

Champagne inspires German quality sekt

By Britt Karlsson on January 30, 2019 in News

VDP stands for Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweinguter and is a highly respected association of around 200 German top producers with their own set of rules for wine growing and wine making. VDP recently launched a new category of German high-quality Sekt. This new category, VDP Sekt, can, like the still VDP wines, be made in four […]

"Water", a sign in an old-style grape press in Champagne

California wine: from the time of prohibition until now

By Britt Karlsson on January 21, 2019 in News

For 100 years, the magazine Wines and Vines (formerly called California Grape Grower) has written about Californian wine news. To launch a wine magazine in the United States in 1919, just a few months before the prohibition started in January 1920, may not seem as the smartest of ideas. On the other hand, nobody thought […]

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