May has been a month of highs and lows, and that’s before we even think about the vineyard.

Yet we’ve done a lot of venturing into the vines, at Bauduc and beyond. As you can see below, it’s shaping up to be a most unusual year. The crucial flowering – that’s Pavie, above, sniffing a bunch of flowering Merlot last night – is taking place right now..

• The frost map of Bordeaux
• ’Modern but with an air of rural’
• Rural, part 2: ’What to drink’ in Country Life
• Wine and Brexit at the London Wine Fair
• Bordeaux en primeur trundles on
• Bordeaux 2016 en primeur – what to buy
• Farewell to a top dog

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