Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jul 2023
UK duty goes up on the 1st August and we’ve seen the worst outbreak of mildew across Bordeaux – but mercifully almost none at Bauduc – that anyone can remember. It’s fun times at Château Fawlty
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Jun 2023
We should be full of the joys of summer and the healthy state of the vines after a successful flowering. This newsletter, however, focuses on the upcoming increase in UK duty on wine from 1 August,
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st May 2023
As ever, rather a lot to cover this month. Perhaps we should add a mid-month newsletter to break up the end-of-month drivel?The vines are pushing on in the vineyard and it’s a hectic time for the t
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 28th Apr 2023
The last weeks of April are usually a tad chaotic for us these days, and none more so than this year. Among other things, it's the en primeur season for Bordeaux, when the world of fine wine descen
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Mar 2023
It’s been a hectic March but for this end-of-month missive we focus on Bordeaux 2022 and the infamous Weather and Harvest report. This will be published on Jancis Robinson’s fine wine websi
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 2nd Mar 2023
Last month we pictured the goats in front of the château, so it seems only fair that we should show them near the vines under the glorious winter sky last week. We promise not to have them headl
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jan 2023
Ange may be asking, up on the balcony outside her office, just what have we got ourselves into now, but you should really taste the cheese.Anyway, we hope you’ve had a good January and we just want
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Dec 2022
We hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas and, as we herald in 2023, we take a customary look back at the year in the vineyard. Putting this photo journal together in the last couple of days reminds us
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Nov 2022
Another last-day-of-the-month missive and a photo journal for November. Before that, well done England and the USA, commiserations to Wales, and the days of four games a day of World
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Oct 2022
Here's our monthly review. Well, not exactly a recap of what's happened this month (where to even begin?) but we finally packaged up our sparkling 2019 Crémant de Bordeaux and shipped it to vario
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