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This week's photo journal comes from a Saturday afternoon in the Médoc and a trip down the famous Route des Châteaux. The weekend before, a good friend in the London wine trade had written to

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For this week's photo journal, here are some bunches of grapes that you don't often see: Bordeaux varieties bearing fruit and a splash of autumn colour. Atypical and rather attractive. It's on

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There's a change to the regular photo journal this week as the images take on a rather different look and feel. This is our Bordeaux 2020 weather and harvest report, an annual feature that's been p

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For the last four weekly missives, every Wednesday throughout September, I’ve posted a photo journal of our harvest at Bauduc (bauduc.com/news) for crémant, dry white, rosé and red. It’s hig

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This afternoon we brought in the last of the Cabernet Sauvignon (with Pavie above, just now) under a clear autumn sky. The same is true for many across Bordeaux as pickers and harvest machin

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Here’s this week’s unmissable photo journal of what’s been happening here. Having finished the reds for making rosé a couple of days before, the first parcel of Merlot destined for our red wine

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We're onto our red harvest now - for making red - having completed the whites, and the reds for the rosé. Those wines, née juices, are all fermenting away in our stainless steel cuves. Before

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Here's another midweek harvest update, and this time on our rosé. To avoid any confusion, the title refers to the timing of the harvest and is not meant as a drinking suggestion. This morning

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We finished our white harvest on Monday, 7 September, having kicked off on 25 August. Sauvignon Blanc is our most widely planted grape, which is handy because we sell more of this wine than any

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Some of the white grapes are in from the vineyard, and so too is more wine in our UK warehouse. The 2019s are back in stock there, though the last of the 2018 Sauvignon has now sold out, exc

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