{"id":711,"date":"2007-07-06T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bkwine.gobigtree.com\/?p=711"},"modified":"2007-07-06T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T07:20:00","slug":"bkwine-brief-nr-48-july-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/news\/bkwine-brief-nr-48-july-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"BKWine Brief nr 48, July 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

– <\/span><\/span>This year the summer seems to have been very short. I\u2019ve just spent a week in the southern Rh\u00f4ne and the Languedoc, enjoying sunshine and warm temperatures. Back in Paris we have autumn weather. Is summer already over? This will be a very strange wine harvest and vintage. Where I was, in the south of France, most wine growers seemed very happy with the year so far \u2013 expecting a medium size but good harvest. But further north the situation is much more difficult. Much rain and cold weather with all the dangers and difficulties with diseases and uneven ripening that it will lead to.<\/p>\n

If you are a wine grower you probably have to be a bit of an artist in doing all sorts of things. One of the growers we met in the Rh\u00f4ne valley had just opened a bed-and-breakfast (or chambres d\u2019h\u00f4te as it\u2019s called here); another was growing fruit in addition to the wine (and using the fruit cold storage to refrigerate the grapes if weather was hot during harvest). A third put a lot of effort into selling direct to the consumers at the door and sold more than half of his production in the winery shop \u2013 with correspondingly higher margins. Everything helps\u2026.<\/p>\n

Wine points pointless?<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Wine tours<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re working on the program for next season and you will soon find more information on it on the site. You can already get a sneak preview of the first trip of the year in 2008: a luxury tour with truffles, foie gras and wine. More info below.<\/p>\n

Custom made trips, events, educational tours,…<\/span><\/p>\n

I also do custom made tours \u2013 designed specifically to your requirements. If, for example, you\u2019d like to take some people from your company on an exciting and unusual trip with (among other things perhaps) wine and gastronomy on the agenda. Or if you want to take a customer or a business partner on a special event. Or if you\u2019re part of a wine tasting club that celebrates an anniversary. Or if you run a wine education program, perhaps you’d be interested in a specifically targeted educational trip. Or\u2026 I can organise the whole trip for you, custom designed as you wish, or I can do a specific event that can fit into a bigger organisation, e.g. a day trip to champagne to lighten up a conference in Paris, or a wine and gastronomy dinner\u2026 Give me a call or send me an email if you are interested to know more. <\/p>\n

Britt<\/span> <\/p>\n

PS: Recommend to your friends to read the Brief or forward it to them !<\/p>\n


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