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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- PART 1 of Quinta do Crasto interviews. We begin with Tomas Roquette one of the owners. Tomas is the fourth generation at Quinta do Crasto. Crasto produces port wine since more than one hundred years and since 1994 also table wine with the same grape varieties as for port - more than a hundred different grape varieties. Why did Quinta do Crasto start production table wines? Tomas explains the reasons. They wanted to show the world what is the potential of Douro, so they started to make table wines. What is the type or the style of wines that they make at Quinta do Crasto. - wines that make people happy when they drink their wines. About serving temperature: it is important not to serve the wines too warm. Chambré is not a good idea, especially if you are talking about wines with higher alcohol contents. They wines should be served at 16 to 18 degrees Celsius. So what wines do they make at Quinta do Crasto? A port wine of course, but several table ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- PART 2 of the interview with Charles Metcalfe, who can be called the guru on Portuguese wines: on the excellent wine and food in Portugal today. Is Portugal perhaps a New World wine country (with all the new technology and new knowledge)? Charles says perhaps, but perhaps not. It is maybe more a question of rediscovery of the old world. Portugal has also benefited enormously benefited from infrastructure investments financed by the European community. What about the prospects for the Portuguese to market and sell their wines with these local and unknown grape varieties on the international market? Are Portuguese grape names the future? Perhaps for arinto, touriga nacional, and maybe on or two others. Otherwise it is probably more important to emphasise the brand. But it can be very small “brands” e.g. Quinta do Crasto or Quinta de la Rosa to take two examples from the Douro Valley. Brands and branding is probably the way to go rather than the grape ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- PART 1 of the interview with Charles Metcalfe, who can be called the guru on Portuguese wines: on the excellent wine and food in Portugal today. Charles also talks about the recent history of Portuguese wines. 20 years ago, when Charles and his wife Kathryn wrote their first book about Portuguese wines, there used to be only a small number of producers. Today there is a large variety and large number of a young generation of winemakers in Portugal. The old image of rustic reds and oxidised whites is now history. The new generation winemakers make wonderful wines. Today there is so much more knowledge on how to make high quality wines. There is a vast variety of Portuguese grape varieties that give wines of characters and flavours that are unique. Some examples: Vinho Verde with aromatic grape varieties such as loureiro; Douro, not just red but also whites; Bucelas with e.g. arinto; etc. One of the big surprises with Portuguese wines for many people ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Cork in the bottle? Interview with Carlos de Jesus, marketing and communications director from Amorim, the world’s largest producer of natural cork. There has been a lot of criticism of cork in recent years, and people arguing that other type of stoppers are better: screw caps, plastic corks etc. Is cork a bad material to close bottles with? Is it better always to use screw caps? Is the cork the ultimate culprit for cork taint, corked wine, wine that tastes bad when opened? But perhaps "the rumour of my death has been highly exaggerated". Carlos argues that natural cork (from cork oak trees) is still the best bottle stopper: Cork is the most used bottle stopper, or closure of any, used in the majority of the 16 or 17 billion bottles produced every year. In recent years Amorim has invested 53 million euros to improve the quality of the corks. They have invested in research, process improvements, training, sophisticated chemical analysis equipment, ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview (Part 2) with Luis Seabra responsible for the vineyards and the winemaking; the Niepoort winemaker. We’re sitting at the brand new winery in the Tedo river valley, overlooking the terraced vineyards along the river and the Douro region impressively steep slopes. We are talking about the red wines and about the future of the Douro wines. Niepoort’s four main red wines are Vertente Tinto, Batuta, Redoma and Charme. They also make a new-old red wine called Robustus that is made in an old-fashioned style aged longer in wooden barrel. Luis Seabra is clearly someone who likes to experiment with different wines, different grapes and different vineyards. There is plenty to material to choose from: there are 40,000 hectares of vineyards, 100 different grape varieties for the reds and 80 different grape varieties for the whites. So, what will happen in the ten coming years? Luis thinks it is the great challenge of the Douro! For example improving ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview with Luis Seabra responsible for the vineyards and the winemaking; the Niepoort winemaker. We’re sitting at the brand new winery in the Tedo river valley, overlooking the terraced vineyards along the river and the Douro region impressively steep slopes. The new winery was opened in 2007 and it has allowed them to do the winemaking the way they really would like to do it - with the time and space they want. They can for example work entirely by gravity. Luis talks about the style of the Niepoort wines, often understated. The ambition is not to make big and impressive wines but to make balanced wines that go well with food. Niepoort is often lighter, fresher and more balanced wines than many others, wines where you want to finish the bottle to the end. They make a wide range of different wines, white, red and port wines. The whites includes Tiara, a stainless steel fermented wine from very old vineyards, a bit riesling inspired, also left for ...

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Part 2 of the interview with Piero Lanza, co-owner (together with his sister) and winemaker at Fattoria Poggerino, Radda in Chianti. In part 2 Piero explains what it means to be a biodynamic winery. Piero explains how he farms his vineyard with biodynamic principles, how he works with preparations and how he started with organic viticulture and then moved further to biodynamism. Biodynamic farming is focused on the ground, the soil. They use for example the 500 treatment, which is based on cow manure prepared and matured under ground in cow horns. It is used to prepare treatments to spray on the vineyards. Before spraying the preparations have to be 'dynamised' in a 'dynamiser'. The biodynamic treatments increase the energy and the humus in the ground. It helps the vineyard to survive in extreme climate and weather conditions. They also use 501 which is based on quartz powder which helps the plants, the leaves, to capture the sunshine. It can also help close to harvest time if there are poor and wet ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interviews with a handful of participants at the European Wine Bloggers Conference ( #EWBC ) that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in October/November 2009. What did you think about the conference? How was it for you?: Miss Vicky Wine (Anne-Victoire Monrozier): http://www.missvickywine.blogspot.com/ Justin Roberts on sherry: http://jerezwine.com/ Maria da Assuncao Foy: http://terruswine.blogspot.com/ Julia Sevenich: http://www.julia7ich.com/ Daniele del Gesso http://www.wineontherocks.com/ aka Finkus Bripp: http://www.finkusbripp.com/ Brett Jones: http://thewinemaestro.co.uk/ Gwendolyn Alley: http://artpredator.wordpress.com/ and also http://winepredator.wordpress.com/ (Sonadora: http://wannabewino.com/, who could not come) Emidio Santos: http://www.adegga.com/ Rachel Black: http://rachelblack.ca/ and http://twitter.com/Nebbiolata João Rico: http://www.pumadas.blogspot.com/ Nico James: http://iamvino.com/ and http://www.nicojames.es/ and ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interviews with a handful of participants at the European Wine Bloggers Conference ( #EWBC ) that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in October/November 2009. What did you think about the conference? How was it for you?: THIS IS JUST THE INTRO. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO IF YOU'RE CURIOUS ABOUT THE #EWBC. Miss Vicky Wine (Anne-Victoire Monrozier): http://www.missvickywine.blogspot.com/ Justin Roberts on sherry: http://jerezwine.com/ Maria da Assuncao Foy: http://terruswine.blogspot.com/ Julia Sevenich: http://www.julia7ich.com/ Daniele del Gesso http://www.wineontherocks.com/ aka Finkus Bripp: http://www.finkusbripp.com/ Brett Jones: http://thewinemaestro.co.uk/ Gwendolyn Alley: http://artpredator.wordpress.com/ and also http://winepredator.wordpress.com/ (Sonadora: http://wannabewino.com/, who could not come) Emidio Santos: http://www.adegga.com/ Rachel Black: http://rachelblack.ca/ and http://twitter.com/Nebbiolata João Rico: ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Part 1 of the interview with Piero Lanza, co-owner (together with his sister) and winemaker at Fattoria Poggerino, a classic and biodynamic winery and farm. Poggerino is a winery located in Radda in Chianti in Italy, at the heart of the Tuscan wine region. It’s a small vineyard and winery, 43 hectares with 11 hectares of vineyards with mainly sangiovese. They make a rose wine, primary purpose it to increase the quality of the red wine. The base red is called Il Labirinto made from sangiovese from young vines. Then they make a Chianti Classico Poggerino, aged for 12 months in French oak barrels – a classic Tuscan wine with original character. Next is a Chianti Classico Riserva Bugialla, which is the name of a small vineyard plot with old wines. They also have an IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) which is called Primamateria, which is more in a “New World” style (albeit Italian). The Chianti Classico is made from sangiovese. They also have some ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview with Jarkko Peranen winemaker at Cantina Candialle. He owns the winery together with Josephin Cramer. Jarkko comes originally from Finland and Josephin from Germany. They have been running the Candialle vineyard since the early 2000s. The vineyard is located in Tuscany in the heart of the Chianti Classico region, near the Panzano village. The vineyard covers six hectares of vines, primarily sangiovese, but also some merlot, syrah and petit verdot. Jarkko makes three wines: one wine based on Merlot called Ciclope, Cyclops, the one-eyed. It is a blend including some sangiovese and syrah. A very fresh fruity, easy drinking wine. They also have one IGT wine called Pli, which is their top quality cru wine, and a Chianti Classico Candialle. http://www.candialle.com Music: Chris Mosley, Tropic of Cancer, http://www.podsafeaudio.com By BKWine, http://www.bkwine.com See all our wine videos on our BKWine TV channel: http://www.youtube.com/bkwine

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Deuxieme partie de l interview avec Alain Vironneau, president du CIVB (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux, l’interprofession bordelais charge d entre autre la promotion, le marketing et beaucoup d autre projets communs des vignerons et producteurs de vin), et avec Georges Haushalter, vice-president. Quel sont les grand chantiers, les grands projets pour le future pour les vins de Bordeaux ? (L’un des projets les plus importants est ce qui concerne l environnement, secutrite environnementale, bilan carbone, reduction d emisson de gaz d effet de serre. Deuxieme chantier : la communication autour du vin, le verre a la main, parler du vin ; pour montrer que Bordeaux est vraiment abordable. Communication, formation (dans le cadre de l Ecole des Vins de Bordeaux), promotion, actions sur le terrain.) Quels sont les perspectives pour le millésime 2008 ? (Les caracteristiques de l annee pour les vins rouges, vins blancs, et vin moelleux. 2008 ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Premiere partie de l interview avec Alain Vironneau, president du CIVB (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux, l’interprofession bordelais charge d entre autre la promotion, le marketing et beaucoup d autre projets communs des vignerons), et avec Georges Haushalter, vice-president. Qu est-ce que Bordeaux a fait pour aujourd hui etre la region viticole la plus connue au monde et peut-etre celle qui a eu le plus grand succes ? (son importance dans le cadre des appellations en France ; le classement de 1855 des grands crus et la suite ; la reconnaissance mondiale ; plus de 150 ans de bon marketing ; une heritage ; un nom synonyme de grands vins…) Il y a quand meme beaucoup de producteurs de vins de Bordeaux qui ont de difficultes aujourd hui... Quel sont les axes de developpement pour ameliorer la situation pour les producteurs de milieu de gamme ? (Le bordelais n est pas uniquement une source de tres grands vins mais aussi une region ou on ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Sandrine Garbay, cellar master and winemaker at Chateau d Yquem, comments on how a Chateau d Yquem change in taste as it ages. She starts from young vintages just after bottling and talks about how the taste evolves to more complex flavours with age, all while we are tasting the 1998 vintage. When young the wine is very much on the fruit and exotic aromas. With age it evolves more to dried fruit and marmalade. Even older it turns towards coffee, caramel, toast, roasted aromas... Enjoy! Also some peeks on the vintages 1989, 1982, 1967, 1945, 1937, 1929, 1921, 1893. . . One can always dream! Chateau d'Yquem is located in Sauternes in Bordeaux and is one of the world’s most expensive sweet white wines, in fact simply one of the world’s most exclusive wines over all. Yquem is the biggest property in all of Sauternes having 100 hectares. The size adds complexity and depth to the wine. Don’t miss the first video on Chateau d’Yquem where Sandrine Garbay ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- An introduction to Austrian wine and wine regions with views of some of the vineyards. On the grape varieties grown: gruner veltliner, riesling, zweigelt, gewurztraminer, pinot noir and others. Some words on the wine styles, the fresh crisp and fruity white wines. Views from the different wine regions and vineyards: Wachau, Niederosterreich, Rust, Neusiedlesee, Burgenland, Styria. Some lie along the Danube (Donau) river. The country has almost 50,000 hectares of vineyards. http://www.winesfromaustria.com Music by Chris Mosley, DA Palm, George Wood, Johnne Tuzza. http://www.podsafeaudio.com By BKWine, http://www.bkwine.com See all our wine videos on our BKWine TV channel: http://www.youtube.com/bkwine

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview with Noel Pinguet, winemaker and co-owner of the Domaine Huet l Echansonne vineyards in the Vouvray wine region in the Loire Valley. It is a biodynamic vineyard in the centre of the Loire Valley. [F] The language is French. Interview avec Noel Pinguet du Domaine Huet. Noel Pinguet est le vigneron et le co-proprietaire du Domaine Huet l Echansonne qui est situe a Vouvray en plein coeur de la Vallee de la Loire, dans la region de tous les châteaux de la vallee de la Loire, Chambord, Chenonceaux etc Le domaine a 35 hectares de vignes, exclusivement plantes de chanin blanc. On produit une large gamme de vins : des secs, demi secs, moelleux et aussi des petillants. On cultive selon les principes de la biodynamie depuis une vingtaine d annees Qu est-ce que c est la biodynamie ? On travaille avec aucun traitement chimique, on suit le rythme planetaire (les planetes, mais principalement la lune), on considere que la terre est un etre vivant. On utilise des traitements faites pour garder cette vie ... Distributed by Tubemogul.

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview with Florent Baumard of Domaine des Baumard. Florent is the winemaker and owner at the family property located in the Loire Valley in the village of Rochefort-sur-Loire. Domaine des Baumard produces primarily dry and sweet white wines from chenin blanc grapes. The main wine region appellations are Savennieres, Anjou, Layon (with Coteaux du Layon), and Quart de Chaume. They also make sparkling wine on chenin blanc, cabernet franc, and a bit of chardonnay. Florent also explains in detail the small Quart de Chaume appellation that makes a rare very elegant sweet white wine and shows why it makes exceptional wines. http://www.baumard.fr/ Music: Mofessor, ScentoMeter, http://www.podsafeaudio.com By BKWine, http://www.bkwine.com See all our wine videos on our BKWine TV channel: http://www.youtube.com/bkwine Distributed by Tubemogul.

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview with Sandrine Garbay the chief winemaker and cellar master (maitre de chai). She has been in charge of the wine making since 1998 at Yquem. Sandrine has made a dream come true by becoming the winemaker of Yquem. The most important thing for Sandrine in making the wine is to respect the source and the raw material, so to speak, to respect the grapes and extract all aromas and elegance that the grapes and the noble rot (botrytis cinerea) can give. Chateau d'Yquem is located in Sauternes in Bordeaux and is one of the world’s most expensive sweet white wines, in fact, it's simply one of the world's most exclusive wines all categories. Yquem is the biggest property in Sauternes having some 100 hectares. The size adds complexity and depth to the wine. Sandrine also talks about how to pair Yquem wine with food – matching it with for example lobster and shellfish or even fish. Also chicken or veal can be delicious with Yquem. Sandrine finishes ...

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Weingut Emmerich Knoll is a winery and vineyard located in Unterloiben (Durnstein) in eastern Wachau in Lower Austria. They make almost exclusively white wine, from the grape varieties gruner veltliner and riesling, and a little bit of traminer and muskateller. Emerich Knoll talks about his wines and also of the vintage and harvest 2007 which promised very well. They also run a restaurant at the winery called Loibnerhog (Familie Knoll). http://www.loibnerhof.at Music by: Michael Slupczynski, Stumbler, podsafeaudio.com By BKWine, http://www.bkwine.com See all our wine videos on our BKWine TV channel: http://www.youtube.com/bkwine

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- The launch of the new revolutionary, according to the launchers, champagne closure med from plastic and aluminium, no longer made from natural cork. It is called Maestro and is made by Alcan and the first champagne producer to use it is Champagnes Duval-Leroy. Presented by Duval-Leroy's international marketing and sales director. Not a cork, but a cap (capsule). You use a lever to open it and you don’t risk getting the cork in your eye. You will still have the traditional champagne pop that everyone connects to opening a bottle of champagne. It is in fact a crown cork (beer bottle cap) under a plastic cover. The closure has been developed by Alcan Packaging Capsules in collaboration with Champagnes Duval-Leroy. It will eliminate all problems with corked bottles and is also much easier to open than the traditional cork. If it will be accepted by the customers remains to be seen. It is the same closure that is used for almost all champagnes when they ar...

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