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Who are we?

The mission of DE KONING DRINKT is to offer to a broad public authentic wines at a fair price. Our focus in this process: the grape, the grape and euh, the grape.
Furthermore we intend to inform to a maximum our public regarding the wines we sell, the people that make them and the regions that they come from. Drinking wine is as much about "knowing" as it is about tasting and savouring. Here the internet can be of great help, and we hope you appreciate our web site.
That's about it for the mission and manifesto part, now it's up to the wine to speak for itself...
Oh yes, we are located in Belgium. But as good wine transcends all frontiers... Please contact us if you are interested in buying our wine. We can work something out.

How to contact us

Have you got any questions, do you wish to place an order, give a comment or just say hello? Please send us an e-mail.
Do you wish to pass by our (home) shop? No problem. But please give us a quick ring before embarking on the journey!

Coordinates

DE KONING DRINKT BVBA
Wenigerstraat 55, B-2150 Borsbeek
Tel. +32 3 322 75 43
E-mail: dekoningdrinkt@busmail.net
TAV : BE 864 161 419
Bank: Argenta 979-6156958-82

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Links

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Pictures

News
05/11/2007, Borsbeek
2006 was a fabulous wine year for Austria. Proof are the Veltliners of Birgit Eichinger and the red Zweigelt and Blaufränkisch of Birgit Braunstein. Among the sweet wines the Cuvée Spätlese from Hans Tschida is once more reaching for the top...


15/09/2007, Borsbeek
More beautiful wines from the German Palatine. We found very mineral white in the shape of Weissburgunder and Grauburgunder at Klaus Scheu's in Schweigen. In the same village right on the French border Friedrich Becker is making some of the most reputed German Spätburgunders (a.k.a. Pinot Noir). Finally a "golden oldie": vintage 2005 of the red Dornfelder from Thomas Siegrist.


15/06/2007, Borsbeek
With the summer approaching DE KONING DRINKT loanches a devastating white wine offensive. From Graziano Fontana we received vintage 2006 of the Müller-Thurgau and the Sauvignon. Now available from the Cesconi brothers: the whites Prabi Bianco and Nosiola.


19/05/2007, Dittelsheim-Hessloch
In the German region of Rheinhessen Stefan Winter makes wonderful Rieslings with a crystal clear expression.


11/05/2007, Borsbeek
Now available: exceptional new vintages of the Bardolino of Le Fraghe (2006) and the Valpolicella of Brigaldara (2005).


15/11/2006, Borsbeek
Hans Tschida is an international reference in the domain of sweet wines. In blind tastings his wines have repeatedly outclassed reputed Sauternes and Austrian renowned names such as Kracher.


16/10/2006, Borsbeek
Cesconi is a name that rings like a bell not only in the Italian province of Trentino. The Cesconi brothers (the four of them) are widely known for their fine white wines and their powerful, sophisticated reds.


14/06/2006, Borsbeek
The Italian "Marche" is a little known region in which are produced very interesting white and red wines. The Sangiovese and Montepulciano of the wine farm Ciù Ciù (pronounce: "choochoo") are part of a new world to be discovered!


09/06/2006, Borsbeek
The Prosecco is a grape from which are made excellently fresh and drinkable sparkling wines, by, among others, Le Colture. Apricot in a bubbling bottle against very competitive prices!


09/07/2005, Borsbeek
True, it was not too difficult to convince us of the quality of the Valpolicellas of the reputed Veronese house of Brigaldara. The Valpolicella Classico as well as the Amarone emphasize Stefano Cesari's ambition to create drinkable wines without forsaking on the region's deep-rooted traditions...

10/05/2005, Borsbeek
Birgit Braunstein was crowned Austrian "Winzerin des Jahres" last year. For whom has tasted her red Blaufränkisch, St. Laurent or the Oxhoft cuvée, this may not come as a surprise...


10/05/2005, Borsbeek
Birgit Eichinger is one of the new Austrian ambassadors of the Grüner and Roter Veltliner. In the Kamptal these typical Austrian whites obtain a sublime and mineral expression.


12/11/2004, Sondrio
Top-Nebbiolos at a very un-Piedmontese price? We went nosing around in Valtellina (Northern Lombardy, Italy) and look what we found... Roberto Marsetti makes very complex but drinkable wines having a massive potential!


12/11/2004, Faedo
Although Graziano Fontana, after Pojer & Sandri the leading producer in Faedo (Trentino), is a reputed "bianchista", we had better not neglect his high quality red wines. Moreover reds and whites are both available at unbeatable prices...


11/11/2004, Salurn
Haderburg is reputed for its 30.000 bottles of "sekt" leaving Salurn (South Tyrol) each year, and which are counted among Italy's finest. But please do not underestimate Aloïs Ochsenreiter's Chardonnay and Blauburgunder wines...


24/07/2004, Ayl
Climate and landscape are at their most extreme in the German Saar. The ideal circumstances to produce, like Peter Lauer, wonderfully mineral and dry Rieslings, characterized by the typical "schieffer".


12/06/2004, Cavaion Veronese
Authenticity and "bevibilità" : these are the key words applicable to the Bardolino of Matilde Poggi's "Le Fraghe". No muscle rolling here, but sophistication and exuberant fruit.


07/04/2004, Bozen
Our weakness for Tyrollean wines is about to become legendary, and we have always been disturbed by the lack of supply of these "tropfen" in the Low Countries. About time to do something about it, and can anyone imagine a better start than the wines of the widely praised and no-nonsense wine maker Georg Ramoser?

Wijnkoopgids 2008

Again De Koning Drinkt scores in the Wijnkoopgids 2008 of Frank Van der Auwera ("De 300 beste wijnen onder de 10 EURO"). Received an Oscar:
* Graziano Fontana Müller-Thurgau 2006
* Brigaldara Valpolicella Classico 2005

Was elected:
* Graziano Fontana Sauvignon 2006

Home Tastings

Do you wish to organize a tasting with our original wines at your home? Is feasable. For a crowd from 8 to 10 persons. Contact us for more detail.

Kitsch

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