Great wines at work

When I look for wines for the Gastro Wine Selection portfolio It is always a pleasure but also some hard work with aching teeth at night but will never complain, It is so much fun and excitement.

Some days ago we where trying to find out some interesting new producers from Peru, Uruguay, Portugal and Italy, all great and finely done wines with bold and beautiful characters.

The wines from Peru was new to me and I remember tasting some years ago on a wine fair but not more, these new wines from the Tannat grape was exiting showing big nose and lot of expression, nice.

I have had problems to understand and to appreciate Portuguese wines, I find them unbalanced, tart and always so very young, same this time, not my cup of wine but I will continue trying to find its soul.

Uruguay have gone from great to fantastic in some years but the good ones is very expensive but can match many of the great wines from around the globe, watch out for complex and amazing wines from this small country.

Italy is another case, so many bad wines produced around the country and in all the IT locations and regions, they sure try to sell you a FIAT with a Ferrari emblem J and charge you for it as well.

I need to fins some more wines from the Veneto region so we tried a some 3 excellent producers, we charged to the top at once and found some very good stuff, lets see what will happened with this.

The story of my life.

Great Hotel in Helsingborg

Hotel Viking in Helsingborg have some of the cosiest and most beautiful setting of all the hotels in Helsingborg where I reside, the new refurbished rooms offer great pleasure and the staff is just amazing.

This is the reason why I keep on doing my wine tastings and lectures here with the helpful hand from the staff, thanks guys for making my life so much easier.

Check out their website here http://www.hotellviking.se

POZDRAV IZ ŠVEDSKE! ŽIVELI UZ VINO DOLINA

Here are a great story about me and the serbian wine of Dolina http://www.vinopedia.rs/?p=3161 

Bocuse d`Or in the sight

The first for in the new 2013 is all about food.


Now it is the time of year when all the important culinary competitions start with the Swedish chef of the year with my friend and team captain  for the Skåne Kulinar Martin Hansen in the finals and I wish him the best of luck cause I will not be there this year due to my trip to France and a mission in the wine world.

The other competition is the finals of the Bocuse d`Or with the amazing Swedish chef Adam Dahlberg representing his country with help of among many others his technical coach Peter Jelksäter who is also responsible for the Swedish national Junior  culinary team.

I will have a glass of wine and cross my fingers for you guys in Lyon end of January.

Here are some amazing pictures of the food that Adam was presenting on the European finals last summer where hi did 2:nd after Norway and Denmark as third.

You can easily say that the culinary scene have moved to the north for the last years when you look at all the results on the years latest competitions and all what the journalists around the world is writing now.
Here are some pictures from Gastronomi Sverige.