Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Apr 2022
This month's missive focuses on the 2021 vintage in Bordeaux, given that hundreds of professionals have just descended on the region to taste the new, more expensive wines which will go on sale fro
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Mar 2022
There are far more important things happening in the world, of course, but what a mad month it has been at Château Fawlty.Our opening offer for our new vintages should have been sent out earlier th
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 28th Feb 2022
Our newly bottled wines are currently on the road, or are about to be, and a mad March offer will be going out for the UK as soon as the stock is booked into our London warehouse. (For elsewhere, d
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 26th Jan 2022
We have had a great response to our email asking people to write to their MP before Sunday night about the absurd proposals to change how duty on wine is charged. Three points to make
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Dec 2021
We hope you've had a good Christmas and that a healthy and happy new year awaits.Our final photo-journal of the year is a glance at the vineyard, namely the same image snapped over several months.
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Nov 2021
In our recent photo journals about the harvest this autumn, we included just a couple of pictures of other Bordeaux estates. We covered the 2021 white harvest at Bauduc, and separately the red and
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th Oct 2021
Our photo journal this month covers our 2021 red and rosé harvest. Click here if you missed the exciting white version. First is a quick reaction to the Budget in the UK, delivered on Wedne
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Sep 2021
Not so much of a ‘long read’, more of a lengthy scroll. Our photo journal this month not surprisingly covers our harvest – or rather, the white half. The theme of Clarkson’s farm from our Au
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Aug 2021
August is supposed to be when everyone goes on holiday in France. It hasn’t quite worked out that way, and soon we’ll have the harvest. Forgive the long photo journal but if we don’t post th
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jul 2021
The summer holidays have arrived. Or rather, all four children have, as of later today when Bugs flies in from Montreal. We’re among the lucky ones: Georgie flew in this week from London and
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