Filip Decroix (42) and his wife Claudine Debaenst (39) are planting the first winery in Great Ypres, reports the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. In 2007 the new vintners bought an old farm along the Diksmuidseweg in Boezinge, right on the frontline of the First World War, near Steenstraete. The first gas attack in history happened here in 1915. The name > Read more …
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 11:30 to 18:30, Hof Ten Steen. The second edition of Belgian Wines Fair, the only public exhibition of Belgian quality wines, takes place on Saturday, April 25 from 11:30 to 18:30 in Hof Ten Steen in Orsmaal. The best Belgian winemakers will be present. Also, all Belgian GOB (Guaranteed Origin Name), a counterpart to the French > Read more …
The organization of Flemish Professional Sommeliers elected the sparkling wine Schorpion Zwart Brut Bruisend (‘Schorpion Black Brut Sparkling’) as best Belgian wine for 2009. The wine is made by resident of Hasselt, Limburg Wilfried Schorpion (44) with grapes from a vineyard of two hectares in Vliermaal (Kortessem). The vineyard is planted with twothirds Chardonnay grapes; the rest are Pinot Noir > Read more …
Hingene, November 14, 2008, 20 hrs. Historian Stijn Van de Perre (°1966) recently wrote a chapter on Belgian aristocratic wine consumption in the 19th century in the book La noblesse à table, des ducs de Bourgogne aux rois des Belges / The Dining Nobility, from the Burgundian Dukes to the Belgian Royalty (Brussels University Press, 2008; eds. Paul Janssens & > Read more …
Leerlingen van de stedelijke hotelschool Tweebruggen in Gent oogsten gisteren in de gietende regen 400 kilogram witte druiven in de tuin van de Sint-Pietersabdij. Dat meldt het persagentschap Belga. Van de druiven wordt de wijn In Monte Blandinio gemaakt. Monniken maakten al rond 1300 wijn van druiven die op de Blandijnberg groeiden. Einhard, de biograaf van Karel De Grote, verwijst > Read more …
Wijndomein van de familie Wellekens in de Antwerpse Kempen (Herselt). N.V. Ten Kapittelberg Kapittelberg – 2230 Herselt Tel. 014/54 85 35 Fax 014/54 11 30 E-mail: info@kapittelberg.be Webstek : http://www.kapittelberg.be/
Ten Kapittelberg Edelrood Zuiderkempen Tafelwijn Herselt 2003. Ik proefde deze wijn blind en dus zonder vooroordelen. Zit er Carignan in? Aangevuld met een beetje Grenache? Een Zuid-Franse wijn misschien? Mooi kruidige wijn met geconfijt zwart fruit en koffie. Misschien wat onevenwicht in het middenpalet, niettemin verrassend goede wijn. Moeilijk te geloven dat de druiven in Herselt groeiden, maar misschien zit > Read more …
By registered letter with AR Epernay, 8 June 2011 Dear Sirs, The Comite interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne (CJVC) is a French body entrusted with a public service mission to co-ordinate the common interests of wine growers and houses in Champagne, and to promote and protect the appellation of origin “Champagne”. As you are certainly aware, “Champagne” is one of > Read more …
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