Welcome. My name is Gavin Quinney and, along with my wife Angela, I run a 63-acre (25 hectare) vineyard and winery near Bordeaux, making upmarket house wines for Rick Stein and for people at home.

Much of our wine is sold direct to around 4000 private customers via Bauduc.com. UK delivery takes just a few days as we have a bonded warehouse near London. Elsewhere, the wine is distributed by a few deranged wine merchants.

We live at Bauduc (pronounced ‘Bo-dook’ or ‘Beau-dook’) and have four grown-up children – Georgie, Sophie, Bugs and the youngest, our 21 year-old son, Tom. We also have a charming 4-bedroomed farmhouse on the 180-acre estate, with a lovely garden and private pool, which we let out by the week.

With another hat on, I write the Bordeaux ‘en primeur’ report for the UK trade mag Harpers Wine & Spirit, and regular vintage reports for JancisRobinson.com and Liv-ex, the leading fine wine exchange. I’ve been tasting all the top wines of Bordeaux from barrel since the 2000 vintage – 2025 was my 25th.

That is why this site has two main categories – posts about ‘Chateau Bauduc’ and ‘Bordeaux Reports’, as well as ‘In Pictures’ and ‘Ramblings’. Please do sign up for my monthly Bauduc newsletter – I’ve written one at the end of each month for more than 10 years.

Wine has always been my passion hobby but not my profession. I left a great job running the UK sales force of a fast-growing computer business in the late-90s, and bought this petit château with the proceeds of my share options in 1999.  Looking back, it’s hard to imagine a less efficient way of investing one’s ill-gotten gains: buying a vineyard, and then replanting half of it, is about the least sensible thing you can do with your money.