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http://www.BKWineTours.com *Come on a wine & food tour with BKWine!* --- Interview with the founder, owner and winemaker of the winery Cortes de Cima: Hans Kristian Jorgensen, in the vineyards of the estate. Cortes de Cima is one of the leading wine estates in the Alentejo, a wine region an hour or two east of Lisbon that has undergone a revival in the last few decades.Hans Kristian and his wife have a background in the plantation industry in Malaysia. They had a dream to start a vineyard. It ...
http://www.BKWineTours.com *Come on a wine & food tour with BKWine!* --- Interview with John Loubser, general manager at the Steenberg Vineyards Winery in Constantia on the Cape peninsula in South Africa.Steenberg means Stone Mountain. The reason is obvious when you come here: you are surrounded by stones and mountains, granite stone mountain. This soil gives fantastic sauvignon blanc wines with lots of minerality. They also have sandy soil, loam and other terroir, but all originates from the ...
http://www.BKWineTours.com *Come on a wine & food tour with BKWine!* --- Cortes de Cima: interview with winemaker Hamilton Reis. Cortes de Cima is a winery in the Alentejo region in Portugal, an hour an a half east of Lisbon. Their total range includes more than a dozen wines. The main:Chamine is the entry level wine, a blend with mainly Portuguese grape varieties (aragonez, trincadeira and touriga nacional) and syrah, made to be fruity, silky tannins, young and fresh, an everyday wine. The cu...
http://www.BKWineTours.com *Come on a wine & food tour with us!* --- -- Guido Schwengerbauer gives us an introduction to the wines and food of Istria in Croatia: Istria is a region in northern Croatia on the border to Slovenia, not far from Italy. It is an area known for good food, good wine, olive oil, truffles and a beautiful landscape. On the wine side, much has happened since 1990, when Yugoslavia disappeared. Earlier it was important to make large quantities of cheap wine. Now there is a ...
http://www.BKWineTours.com --- Dottore Giorgio Colli gives a short introduction to truffles, what types of truffles there are and how you should prepare and serve them. Truffles are a type of mushroom. About a dozen truffle varieties are used in Europe. There is the white truffle, called in Latin Tuber Magnatum Pico. It is found mainly in the Piedmont in Italy, but also in Istria in Croatia and Slovenia. It can also be found in the Siena province and in Umbria. The best season for the white tr...
http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview (part 1) with Domaine Duseigneur (Rhone), Frederic Duseigneur. Domaine Duseigneur is a small family wine producer in the southern Rhone Valley just across the river from Chateauneuf-du-Pape, run by the brothers Frederic and Bernard (they also work with the famous French sommelier Philippe Faure-Brac). Frederic sees himself more as a farmer than a winemaker. The most important thing is what happens in the vineyard, that you have life...
http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview (part 2) with Denis Dubourdieu. Denis Dubourdieu is a wine consultant and wine maker, as well as a professor in oenology at the University of Bordeaux. We talk with Denis Dubourdieu about the trend towards organic wine, organic farming in the vineyards. Denis emphasises that one should not only talk about organic (biological) viticulture! And organic farming has to evolve. For example, it is still allowed to use much copper, copper ...
http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview avec César Compadre (deuxième partie) sur la situation actuelle et le future de Bordeaux. César Compadre est grand reporter au Groupe Sud-Ouest, 100% dédié aux vins et aux spiritueux. César parle de quels sont les enjeux de la promotion des vins de Bordeaux. Il y a un problème d’échelle, même s’il y a le CIVB avec un budget de plus de 30 millions d’euros. Faire la promotion des vins de Bordeaux est important, mais avec 54 appellatio...
http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview with Denis Dubourdieu. Denis Dubourdieu is a wine consultant and wine maker, as well as a professor in oenology at the University of Bordeaux. Denis starts with explaining what the role of a wine consultant is: to help wine producers to find their style, a style that best reflects the origin of the terroir. But the wine also has to be contemporary, appreciated by today's palates, as well as able to age. The work is done both in the ...
http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview avec César Compadre sur la situation actuelle et le future de Bordeaux. César Compadre est grand reporter au Groupe Sud-Ouest, 100% dédié au vins et aux spiritueux. Nous parlons du millésime 2009 - une excellent millésime, d’un grand succès pour les vins rouges, les blanc, ainsi que pour les moelleux / liquoreux. Ensuite Césare Compadre parle de la situation difficile dans le secteur du vin, à Bordeaux ainsi que dans les autres régi...