- Back to where we started
- 2015: an odd year that’s normal for once
- The Seafood celebrates 40 years
- In praise of big bottles and the rule of 5
- The Bauduc tasting room
Category Archives: Chateau Bauduc
2015: an odd year that’s normal for once
May 24 2015
The vines are coming into flower. I’ve taken a picture of the vineyard in front of the chateau on the 23rd May each year – it started that way – and the photos show just how different the uneven years have been. 2009 just after the hail, 2011 way ahead of other years, 2013 limp and lagging well behind, and now with 2015 looking strangely normal for the time of year.
23 May 2009, Chateau Bauduc, after hail 10 days before.
23 May 2011, Chateau Bauduc. An early vintage that got off to a flyer.
23 May 2013, Chateau Bauduc. Way behind – and in August, we’d be hit by hail.
23 May 2015, Chateau Bauduc. Verging on normal.
The Seafood celebrates 40 years
May 22 2015
Congratulations to The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow for notching up 40 years. And many thanks to Rick and Jill Stein – and to Jill’s sister Roni, who has looked after the wine since 1988 – for including me as one of their ’Food Heroes’ in the book to mark the anniversary. The Food Heroes (admittedly, wine is stretching the category of ’food’) were each asked if they could share any tips and favourite dishes. Here are mine. Keep reading
The Bauduc tasting room
May 16 2015
If you’re planning a trip to Bordeaux this summer, do book ahead if you’d like to come and try our wines. We have smartened up the old tasting room next to the winery and the chateau terrace can be a handsome spot at 6pm. Tastings are by reservation only, Monday to Friday, and there’s a small fee which is refundable against the purchase of a case at the cellar door or for UK delivery. We’re closed 14-24 August. Text or call +33 642329853 or email gavin at bauduc dot com.
March news – Primeurs week in Bordeaux
March 30 2015
- Bordeaux 2014 weather report
- UK Wine duty frozen
- Spring whites and rosés
- Farmhouse availability in May
Our line-up of new vintage Bauduc wines, Spring 2015
February 24 2015
There’ll be no shortage of hype about Bordeaux 2014 – ‘an Indian summer of historic proportions’ and all that. Whilst we won’t be offering our 2014 red en primeur, our two whites and our rosé have just been bottled and are ready to go. Here’s a run-down of the new wines on offer this Spring, including a new red and our Sauternes from the 2011 vintage. (2011? Blimey, time flies). You can order them here for delivery in the UK, or here for collection from Calais.
Château Bauduc Sauvignon Blanc 2014
2014 has turned out to be a very good vintage, with good weather for the flowering in June, a fairly cool summer and then a lovely September both before and during the harvest. We made this crisp, dry white from the blocks of Sauvignon Blanc that surround the chateau. An upmarket house wine that is grassy, zingy, refreshing and versatile, and bottled with a Stelvin+ screwcap.
The 2014 has just been selected by Restaurant Gordon Ramsay once again as the house white at his eponymous three Michelin star establishment in London, and we’ll soon be going to see Rick Stein for the annual, slightly nervy ’man from Del Monte’ moment. (Gordon leaves it to his head sommeliers and wine buyer, in truth, but Rick still likes to keep his oar in at The Seafood in Padstow.)
Here are some pictures of the Sauvignon harvest. You can order the wine direct from us for UK delivery.
February news – How the UK pays 67% of wine duty in the EU
February 18 2015
- How the UK pays 67% of wine duty in the EU
- Our new vintage offer: UK delivery or Calais collection
- 2014s all ready to go
- The farmhouse and the buds of May, darling
An introduction to Bauduc Sauternes 2011
November 20 2014
We are delighted to introduce you to our new, delicious sweet white wine from the world’s most famous sweet white wine appellation. It’s more than just a pudding wine, we feel, as it also goes really well with cheese – and foie gras, if that’s your thing.
Sauternes has to come from a designated region on the other side of the Garonne from us, so we worked with a fifth-generation grower there and bottled the wine at Bauduc earlier this year. Keep reading
Pick your own and other November news
November 19 2014
- Bauduc Sauternes debut
- Christmas cases
- Pick your own
- Bespoke Bauduc
- Farmhouse bookings 2015
What a difference a year makes – October news
October 23 2014
- Bauduc 2014 – what a difference a year makes
- Bordeaux 2014 – guarded optimism as red harvest ends
- Bordeaux 2014 – the red harvest begins
- Harvesting in the dark – in pictures
- Hand-picked start to Bauduc 2014 harvest