Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Mar 2025
The first shipment of our 2024 Sauvignon Blanc and Rosé arrived this morning in London City Bond and, as the sun’s coming out, it seems a good moment to launch them on our website. The w
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 28th Feb 2025
It's exactly 10 years since we had the idea that we should send out a newsletter on the last day of every month to our customers and subscribers. That way, we thought, we'd have to meet a clear deadl
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jan 2025
Mid-winter may feel a little bleak right now but there are, we trust, some brighter days ahead. We’ve been preparing the blends of our white and rosé 2024 for bottling next month and the
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Sandwiched in between the joys of Black Friday and Advent Sunday, we bring you glad tidings with a festive guide to the changes in UK duty which will kick in at the end of Dry January. You may want
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Oct 2024
Ah, the Autumn Budget, and a new dawn? A 1p reduction in the duty on a pint of draught beer? Hooray! No doubt the pubs are getting the Bonfire Night bunting out. A horror show fit for
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Sep 2024
September is harvest month for us, so unsurprisingly it’s been a busy one. Please forgive this lengthy journal of pictures, which is really designed for you to scroll through when you have the t
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Aug 2024
A quarter of a century. Blimey. It’s the end of the summer holidays, our twentysomething children have left this week and we made the decision yesterday, Friday, to start the harvest t
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jul 2024
We hope you’re enjoying a fine summer. It’s been a scorcher in south west France this week. On Monday, we came on the train down to Spain on the hottest day of the year so far at home. Our thr
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th Jun 2024
“So today, we are taking advantage of leaving the EU to announce the most radical simplification of alcohol duties for over 140 years.” Rishi Sunak’s Budget speech as Chancellor, October 2021.
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st May 2024
May is always a crazy month and this year’s no different. The weather has been less than clement of late, with rather a lot of rain, and we need the sun now before the all-important floweri
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