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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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Sep 2022
What a momentous September. And we had a harvest to bring in. We’ve sent out a news review or photo journal at the end of every month for many years but we can’t recall another month o
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Aug 2022
We started our harvest yesterday. It’s obviously a fairly early one, what with all the heat and the drought for most of the summer, but more on that another time. Instead, this end of
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th Jul 2022
Well, we all know it’s been hot in July.Last month we wrote about the hail storms that ripped through vineyards not too far from us on 20 June, following on from the 40+˚C heatwave the weekend befo
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 1st Jul 2022
Welcome to the second part of this month’s newsletter. If you missed the June photo journal, you can find it by clicking this link.This photo journal focuses on the hailstorms in the Bordeaux regio
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