Författare: Per Karlsson

Swedish. Per is co-founder together with his wife Britt of BKWine. Rumour has it that his interest in wine started already when he was 11. Just like Britt he visits some 200 wineries each year on wine tours and for journalistic research. He writes about wine primarily online on BKWine Magazine and in the BKWine Brief. Per is also a professional photographer, specialising in wine and travel photography. See BKWine Photography for more on this. Since a few years back he has also branched out into video production on the same subject. He has contributed all images, and some text, to BKWine’s wine books.

Absolut Prostitution? – Vin & Sprit drar in reklamkampanj

V&S Vin & Sprit drog nyligen igång en reklamkampanj i Tyskland där en av annonserna visade ett yppigt rött läppavtryck med en siluett av en absolutflaska mellan läpparna. Texten var ”Absolut Herbertstrasse”. Herbertstrasse är en

The German wine law updated

One of the changes is that VDP Erste Erlage will be an umbrella description for the best German vineyards (”lage”). You can find details of the changes at Die Prädikatsweingüter

The first wine harvest at Versailles

A long time ago there were plenty of vineyards around Paris. Now there are only a few (mostly symbolic) left. But some have actually been replanted more recently. So, for example in Versailles, a few

Vin & Sprit säljer mer

V&S Vin & Sprits försäljning ökade med 13% till 7,6 miljarder kronor. Rörelseresultatet ökade med 18% till 1,6 miljarder kronor. Ökningen beror till stor del framgångar med storsäljaren Absolut i USA, Europa och Asien. Man

Champagne increases ”rendement butoir” to 15,000 kg/ha

This month’s least engaging headline? But this refers to a theme that is also often talked about in very generalised, and sometimes mistaken, terms. “Lower yields are of course much better”. Right? Not necessarily. In

Mechanical harvest better than manual?

Many have opinions on this matter. Often, people believe that manual harvest, with “real” vendangeurs is better, not necessarily without knowing why. We would rather say, like in most things in wine, that it depends.

Uruguay wines continue to progress

Uruguay is radically different (and perhaps less known) than Argentina and Chile, in terms of wine growing. If you find vast vineyards over immense prairies and multi-million dollar investments in wineries in the two bigger

Monopolet lanserar drinkbok

Systembolaget lanserar i början av december en ny bok med drinkrecept. Enligt World of Wine så vill man på Systemet möta kundernas ökade efterfrågan på drinkar och goda smakkombinationer.”Vi vill lyfta fram kvalitet istället för

A wine university in the Rhône Valley

L’Université du Vin – it could not be more straight forward. The University of Wine in Suze La Rousse is housed in a magnificent old medieval chateau. They have several different university programs focusing on

Blanche d’Armagnac

Perhaps it is clever marketing. We have heard about Blanche d’Armagnac since quite a while back and have written about it previously here. But you can still not buy it. This new, “white” (clear and

American wine overtakes French wine in the UK

According to the latest sales figures wine from the US have for the first time sold in bigger volume than wine from France and now holds second position in the UK. Consumers increased the consumption

Unoaked Chardonnay more and more popular

It’s not exactly big news for those of you who read about wine elsewhere: Heavyweight barrel aged Chardonnay is loosing ground. Consumers are moving towards lighter wines with more pronounced fruit, rather than oakiness and

Big harvest in Europe

The total volume in Europe, though, seems to be relatively big. The total for the four countries German, Italy, France and Spain is expected to reach 154 million hectolitres compared to 145 Mhl last year

Small German harvest

The rain arrived just at harvest time in Germany. Many producers had to do very strict sorting of the grapes at harvest, which will lead to a harvest volume that is a bit smaller than

Vin & Sprit announces sales and profits up

V&S Vin & Sprit, the Swedish state-owned that is one of the world’s largest vodka producers (with the Absolut brand), announced sales up with 13% to 7.6 billion SEK for the nine months to September.

No more Tokay d’Alsace or Tocai Friuliani

Next year the agreement between Hungary and the EU will come into effect that will reserve the name “Tokay” (in its various spellings) to wine coming from the region of Tokay in Hungary. The use

Salon des Vins de Loire, 5-7 February

Next year’s edition of the Loire Valley wine fair – Salon des Vin de Loire – will take place on February 5 to 7. It is a big trade fair where most of the Loire

Restauranger i Stockholm | BKWine Tips

Bistro Jarl Champagnebar Centralt placerad och en mötesplats för många. Har nyligen byggt ut sin champagnebar och fått mer plats. Nalen Mest känd för sitt förflutna som danspalats men väl värd att upptäcka som restaurang

Domain Gilles Robin, Crozes-Hermitage | BKWine Tips

Gilles Robin gjorde sin första årgång Crozes-Hermitage 1996. Denna första årgång hade han sin gamla morfar till hjälp och som tack har han uppkallat sin cuvée prestige efter den gamle mannen, cuvée Alberic Bouvet. Gilles

Champagne Duval-Leroy | BKWine Tips

Dynamiska Carol Duval-Leroy från Belgien blev chef för detta champagnehus när hennes man dog 1991. Hon har lyckats bra med att marknadsföra sin champagne och hon riktar ofta in sig på de kvinnliga konsumenterna. Hon

BKWine announces collaboration with Alamy

From our press release on our stock photo activity: A new source for wine, food and travel stock photography is now available with the launch of the collaboration between BKWine and Alamy. The collaboration marks

New Wine Tours

Wine Tours February 14-18 Truffles, Olive Oil and Wine in the Rhone Valley Haven’t you always dreamed of going truffle hunting? Now you have the opportunity! Join us on this trip in February to the

A new BKWine Brief is out

Read it here:https://www.bkwine.com/category/newsletter/bkwine-brief-archive/ Or subscribe herehttps://www.bkwine.com/newsletter/free-subscription/ Here’s the introduction: Quite a few restaurant and producer recommendations in this Brief. The two selected producers I have for you are very interesting: An unusual, and very dynamic

Tell us where you are!

That’s right. We want to know where you are. Just for fun, to know where our readers are located. We have created a Frappr map (a free Google service) for the BKWine Brief. You can

Hur många Bourgogner finns det egentligen?

Nu var det ett tag sedan vi skrev något här. Det har varit lugnt på monopolfronten på sistone… Men idag råkade jag på ett litet inlägg i debatten. En vinentusiast om tänkt sig göra en

The German wine law updated

One of the changes is that VDP Erste Erlage will be an umbrella description for the best German vineyards (”lage”). You can find details of

The first wine harvest at Versailles

A long time ago there were plenty of vineyards around Paris. Now there are only a few (mostly symbolic) left. But some have actually been

Vin & Sprit säljer mer

V&S Vin & Sprits försäljning ökade med 13% till 7,6 miljarder kronor. Rörelseresultatet ökade med 18% till 1,6 miljarder kronor. Ökningen beror till stor del

Mechanical harvest better than manual?

Many have opinions on this matter. Often, people believe that manual harvest, with “real” vendangeurs is better, not necessarily without knowing why. We would rather

Uruguay wines continue to progress

Uruguay is radically different (and perhaps less known) than Argentina and Chile, in terms of wine growing. If you find vast vineyards over immense prairies

Monopolet lanserar drinkbok

Systembolaget lanserar i början av december en ny bok med drinkrecept. Enligt World of Wine så vill man på Systemet möta kundernas ökade efterfrågan på

Blanche d’Armagnac

Perhaps it is clever marketing. We have heard about Blanche d’Armagnac since quite a while back and have written about it previously here. But you

Unoaked Chardonnay more and more popular

It’s not exactly big news for those of you who read about wine elsewhere: Heavyweight barrel aged Chardonnay is loosing ground. Consumers are moving towards

Big harvest in Europe

The total volume in Europe, though, seems to be relatively big. The total for the four countries German, Italy, France and Spain is expected to

Small German harvest

The rain arrived just at harvest time in Germany. Many producers had to do very strict sorting of the grapes at harvest, which will lead

Restauranger i Stockholm | BKWine Tips

Bistro Jarl Champagnebar Centralt placerad och en mötesplats för många. Har nyligen byggt ut sin champagnebar och fått mer plats. Nalen Mest känd för sitt

Champagne Duval-Leroy | BKWine Tips

Dynamiska Carol Duval-Leroy från Belgien blev chef för detta champagnehus när hennes man dog 1991. Hon har lyckats bra med att marknadsföra sin champagne och

New Wine Tours

Wine Tours February 14-18 Truffles, Olive Oil and Wine in the Rhone Valley Haven’t you always dreamed of going truffle hunting? Now you have the

A new BKWine Brief is out

Read it here:https://www.bkwine.com/category/newsletter/bkwine-brief-archive/ Or subscribe herehttps://www.bkwine.com/newsletter/free-subscription/ Here’s the introduction: Quite a few restaurant and producer recommendations in this Brief. The two selected producers I have

Tell us where you are!

That’s right. We want to know where you are. Just for fun, to know where our readers are located. We have created a Frappr map

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