BKWine Magazine https://www.bkwine.com/ Wine on the internet since 1996 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:38:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.5 https://www.bkwine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-FavIcon-NEW-thick-Magazine-32x32.png BKWine Magazine https://www.bkwine.com/ 32 32 Sustainable Wine Roundtable encourages everyone to reduce bottle weight – with success https://www.bkwine.com/news/sustainable-wine-roundtable-reduce-bottle-weight/ https://www.bkwine.com/news/sustainable-wine-roundtable-reduce-bottle-weight/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:36:02 +0000 https://www.bkwine.com/?p=422096 Sustainable Wine Roundtable (SWR) is an organization founded by various players in the wine industry: wine producers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers and more. Systembolaget (the Swedish retail state monopoly) was one of the founding members. Now more than 20 companies are involved; together they produce and sell more than 3 billion bottles of wine, around 10% […]

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]]> https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-producer-profiles/vinos-atlante/feed/ 0 Wines Made With Cow Shit, Not Bullshit: Inside Te Whare Ra’s Compost in Marlborough NZ https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-producer-profiles/te-whare-ra-compost/ https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-producer-profiles/te-whare-ra-compost/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:19:29 +0000 https://www.bkwine.com/?p=422593 More and more wine producers talk about the importance of compost. For biodynamic wineries, it is almost a question of religion or faith; using compost is compulsory. For others, it can be an important tool to keep the soil alive and the vines growing on it healthy. But few people I have met have talked […]

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]]> https://www.bkwine.com/news/cork-is-thriving/feed/ 0 Has Doomsday Arrived for Wine? | New Brief #276 https://www.bkwine.com/opinion/has-doomsday-arrived-for-wine-new-brief-276/ https://www.bkwine.com/opinion/has-doomsday-arrived-for-wine-new-brief-276/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:02:21 +0000 https://www.bkwine.com/?p=422518 In recent months, there has been an unusually large amount of bad news about wine. People talk about a “wine crisis” with falling consumption, fires, heatwaves, wine shortages, price increases, and all sorts of gloomy developments. We ourselves have contributed to the focus on all this bleakness, with our articles on several of these topics. […]

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]]> https://www.bkwine.com/opinion/has-doomsday-arrived-for-wine-new-brief-276/feed/ 0 BKWine Brief nr 276, August 2026 https://www.bkwine.com/newsletter/bkwine-brief-archive/276-august-2026/ https://www.bkwine.com/newsletter/bkwine-brief-archive/276-august-2026/#respond Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:35:08 +0000 https://www.bkwine.com/?p=422508 — Has Doomsday Arrived for Wine? — In recent months, there has been an unusually large amount of bad news about wine. People talk about a “wine crisis” with falling consumption, fires, heatwaves, wine shortages, price increases, and all sorts of gloomy developments. We ourselves have contributed to the focus on all this bleakness, with […]

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]]> https://www.bkwine.com/newsletter/bkwine-brief-archive/276-august-2026/feed/ 0 Five more myths about champagne, with a bonus | Per on Forbes https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-regions/more-myths-about-champagne/ https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-regions/more-myths-about-champagne/#respond Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:23:15 +0000 https://www.bkwine.com/?p=422459 Do you care more about the name on the label or the taste of the contents? I’m sure it’s the latter. Sometimes it is difficult to rid oneself of “received wisdom”, though, which gets in the way of really appreciating the wine. Champagne, in particular, as well as other sparkling wines, are more than most […]

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]]> https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-regions/more-myths-about-champagne/feed/ 0 Island Wines Summit Part 2: The producers who make wines from islands feel different | Britt on Forbes https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-regions/island-wines-summit-the-producers/ https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-regions/island-wines-summit-the-producers/#respond Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:34:44 +0000 https://www.bkwine.com/?p=422387 At the Island Wine Summit in Tenerife in June, I tasted some excellent wines from islands in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic Ocean (see part 1 for an introduction). The winemakers here mostly work with indigenous grape varieties, and they are passionate about keeping the terroir character of their specific island vineyards. Originally published […]

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]]> https://www.bkwine.com/features/wine-regions/island-wines-summit-the-producers/feed/ 0 BKWine interviewed in Metro UK about the heatwave’s effect on vineyards https://www.bkwine.com/news/bkwine-interviewed-in-metro/ https://www.bkwine.com/news/bkwine-interviewed-in-metro/#respond Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:33:21 +0000 https://www.bkwine.com/?p=422076 At the end of June, we wrote an in-depth article about the heat-wave’s effect on vineyards. Large parts of Europe have been hit by exceptional weather this year. We explained that the heat can lead to problems in many ways, drought, burnt grapes, imbalance, immaturity and over-ripeness and a lot more. It was a theme […]

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