Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st May 2019
The end of May, if you’ll forgive the cliché. Whatever next? June, you say, and a fair amount of sport still. It’s also an important few weeks ahead in the vineyard as the vines have just star
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 1st May 2019
It's Bordeaux en primeur time and 2018 is actually a vintage to get quite enthusiastic about. There hasn't been such a great year since, erm, 2016. The fine wine world descended on the
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th Mar 2019
Good Lord. The 29th of March 2019 already. Now we’re into time added on - what in football we used to call injury time - we still don’t have an answer to the most popular question from visitor
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 28th Feb 2019
What a month. 23°C yesterday afternoon here and who’d have thought we’d need refrigerated trucks to transport our stock around in February. Not really, but we have been busy with shift
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jan 2019
The Bauduc backstopSorry to use the ugly b-word in the subject line but we thought we should let you know that we have a plan B and, all being well, this one is deliverable.‘They are bottling early th
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Nov 2018
November has been a hectic month, though less so in the vineyard itself. We sometimes forget how beautiful it can be at this time of year, with the golden rows of vines set against the autum
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Oct 2018
This month’s exciting review covers the Bordeaux 2018 vintage and how the weather impacted on the harvest. Below is a cutdown version of a longer article that Gavin has just put together for Jan
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 28th Sep 2018
This month has seen our twentieth harvest at Bauduc. We took over the grapes that were on the vines when we arrived at the start of September 1999, so we haven’t quite clocked up 20 years, but t
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Aug 2018
Another dry and unusually hot month, and the white harvest has already kicked off in the more precocious Bordeaux vineyards, namely to the south of the city in Pessac-Léognan. Most white vines,
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jul 2018
A memorable month with friends, family, football and glorious weather. And, for some of us, Love Island. We’ve also had a record number of visitors to the château to taste and even to buy ou
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