Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Aug 2019
So, the end is nigh. The end of the summer holidays that is, at least in France. We’ve had a fabulous July and August, surrounded by family and friends and a host of visitors. And this week we
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jul 2019
“Phew - it’s a scorcher” we wrote at the end of June. And so it continued, right up until last Friday when, mercifully, the thirsty vines received some refreshing rain. We’ve seen 40 degrees
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 28th Jun 2019
Phew, it's a scorcher. After yesterday, when it nudged 40˚C here, it's calming down to the low to mid thirties today and throughout next week. Exactly a week ago, it barely reached 20˚C and ra
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st May 2019
The end of May, if you’ll forgive the cliché. Whatever next? June, you say, and a fair amount of sport still. It’s also an important few weeks ahead in the vineyard as the vines have just star
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 1st May 2019
It's Bordeaux en primeur time and 2018 is actually a vintage to get quite enthusiastic about. There hasn't been such a great year since, erm, 2016. The fine wine world descended on the
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th Mar 2019
Good Lord. The 29th of March 2019 already. Now we’re into time added on - what in football we used to call injury time - we still don’t have an answer to the most popular question from visitor
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 28th Feb 2019
What a month. 23°C yesterday afternoon here and who’d have thought we’d need refrigerated trucks to transport our stock around in February. Not really, but we have been busy with shift
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jan 2019
The Bauduc backstopSorry to use the ugly b-word in the subject line but we thought we should let you know that we have a plan B and, all being well, this one is deliverable.‘They are bottling early th
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Nov 2018
November has been a hectic month, though less so in the vineyard itself. We sometimes forget how beautiful it can be at this time of year, with the golden rows of vines set against the autum
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Oct 2018
This month’s exciting review covers the Bordeaux 2018 vintage and how the weather impacted on the harvest. Below is a cutdown version of a longer article that Gavin has just put together for Jan
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