Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th May 2021
Much work to do in the vineyard this month and tastings at some of the leading châteaux for the 2020 Bordeaux ‘en primeur’ assessment, with a semi-journalistic, critical hat on. We hav
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Apr 2021
An extraordinary month, and not what we had in mind when we sent out our photo journal ‘Preparing for Spring’ at the end of March. Two main events this month – the frost in the first h
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 21st Apr 2021
It's exactly five years since 'Rick Stein's Long weekends' series kicked off on the BBC with his trip to Bordeaux. So we couldn't pass up on the opportunity of posting a cheeky video of Rick's visit
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 9th Apr 2021
There have been some devastating frosts across France this week, in Bordeaux, Burgundy and beyond. Here’s a photo journal of what’s been happening at Château Bauduc, preceded by a look at so
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 1st Apr 2021
Phew, it’s a scorcher here too, and it’s only the end of March. Record temperatures were felt across France yesterday afternoon, including on the coast here at Cap Ferret apparently, which is a tem
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 26th Feb 2021
We’re lucky to live here in so many ways but the sight and the sound this week of the migrating grues*, or cranes, flying up from the south is a glorious reminder that winter is almost behind us an
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 23rd Feb 2021
The famous Quinney annual Bordeaux production report was published by Jancis Robinson on her website yesterday and by Liv-ex, the fine wine trading platform.We thought we'd send it to you as an ema
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 12th Feb 2021
We had a fantastic response to the launch of our new wines a week ago. Most of the orders for England and Wales placed up until Wednesday morning – we had several hundred – will have been de
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Jan 2021
And now for some good news. We’ll be releasing the new vintages of our whites, reds, sparkling and rosé on Friday 5th February, with keen prices and UK delivery within a few working days fr
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Dec 2020
A final photo journal of the year, and this time of the vineyard at Bauduc over the past 12 months. The picture above, with several small deer running over frosty ground towards a parcel of
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