Another dry and unusually hot month, and the white harvest has already kicked off in the more precocious Bordeaux vineyards, namely to the south of the city in Pessac-Léognan. Most white vines, like ours, are sensibly holding back just long enough until the managers, oenologists and staff return from their holidays.
Category Archives: Newsletters
How 2018 is looking, hail news and more… July review
July 30 2018
A memorable month with friends, family, football and glorious weather. And, for some of us, Love Island. We’ve also had a record number of visitors to the château to taste and even to buy our wine, and there seems to have been no let-up in the number of online orders in the UK, which is great.
June review – our Rosé cocktail and what’s been happening
June 29 2018
We hope you’re enjoying the sunshine. As we’ve discovered of late, it is most definitely rosé weather.
May review – hail in Bordeaux, Bauduc news and a critical look at Bordeaux 2017 en primeur
May 31 2018
May can be such a great month. Some glorious weather, bank holidays, cup finals, the occasional wedding and the whole of the summer to look forward to.
April review and Bordeaux 2017 scores
April 30 2018
Normally we’d be a bit miserable with these seasonal showers (above) yet we are delighted to report that there has been no repeat of the late spring frost that half-trashed our vines at the end of April last year. Once the risk of ‘les Saints des Glaces’ have passed by around the middle of May, we’ll only have to stress about the weather for a further five months.
March review, and Happy Easter
March 31 2018
March has been a bit mad. Our spirits have been tested in this last, thoroughly sodden week, but no doubt the Easter bunny will bring us all good cheer as spring approaches. Funnily enough, Good Friday is not a public holiday in France.
February news review
February 28 2018
A cold February has been good news for us as the vines have had a decent winter break, and we’ve been able to prune them without the imminent risk of the sap rising prematurely. We have, pretty much, just the young plantations to go now. We’re also relieved that we decided to delay the bottling of our 2017 whites and rosé until March, thus avoiding the freezing temperatures.
January news review
January 31 2018
January has been anything but dry in the vineyard, and fairly miserable for the four who are out there pruning and the others who follow behind, pulling out and removing last year’s branches by hand. A rain-free, chilly fortnight ahead (since Sunday, above) will be most welcome for the vines to have a proper winter break.
Duty frozen, pick of the best and other news – November review
November 30 2017
Some good news over the last week. The Chancellor froze the duty on wine in his Autumn Budget and Victoria Moore selected our Sauvignon Blanc 2016 for her 60 Best Wines for Christmas in the Telegraph.
