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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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Jun 2021
It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through 2021. June is a hectic month in the vineyard (no, really) and we’ll try and give you a flavour of that with a photo journal below. Fr
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 11th Jun 2021
Our famous summer cocktail is great for parties of all sizes and attractively pink, thoroughly refreshing and tasty in hot weather.For 25+ long drinks, mix together two bottles of (Château) Bauduc Ros
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 8th Jun 2021
It's rosé time so we've put together a fabulous offer on our delicious Château Bauduc 2020 Rosé for 24 bottles, at around a tenner including delivery in England and Wales, and even keener pr
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th May 2021
Much work to do in the vineyard this month and tastings at some of the leading châteaux for the 2020 Bordeaux ‘en primeur’ assessment, with a semi-journalistic, critical hat on. We hav
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Apr 2021
An extraordinary month, and not what we had in mind when we sent out our photo journal ‘Preparing for Spring’ at the end of March. Two main events this month – the frost in the first h
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 21st Apr 2021
It's exactly five years since 'Rick Stein's Long weekends' series kicked off on the BBC with his trip to Bordeaux. So we couldn't pass up on the opportunity of posting a cheeky video of Rick's visit
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 9th Apr 2021
There have been some devastating frosts across France this week, in Bordeaux, Burgundy and beyond. Here’s a photo journal of what’s been happening at Château Bauduc, preceded by a look at so
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 1st Apr 2021
Phew, it’s a scorcher here too, and it’s only the end of March. Record temperatures were felt across France yesterday afternoon, including on the coast here at Cap Ferret apparently, which is a tem
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 26th Feb 2021
We’re lucky to live here in so many ways but the sight and the sound this week of the migrating grues*, or cranes, flying up from the south is a glorious reminder that winter is almost behind us an
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