http://www.gavinquinney.com A subtle blend of vinegrower, wine producer, wine critic, collector and geek. Sat, 22 May 2010 10:28:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks for visiting GavinQuinney.com. I've switched to our Bauduc Blog at blog.bauduc.com. Please come and visit us there. http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/06/06/flip-on-over-to-the-bauduc-blog/ Never mind the recession, the strong euro, the weak pound, increased duty costs and global over-supply of cheap, industrial wine. It's back to nature, and sometimes nature can be cruel. Thanks for watching. You can leave a comment here, or join the debate (with scores of comments on this video) over ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/06/03/hail-in-bordeaux-the-video/ A few hours after Chelsea beat Everton 2-1 at Wembley to win the FA Cup, Bordeaux became Champions of the French league on saturday night by winning away at Caen 0-1. Les Girondins pipped Marsailles to the title, and some 80,000 had gathered in front of the big screen in ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/06/01/bordeaux-champions/ Clatter, clatter, clatter. The worst sound in the world for a winegrower. In the middle of the night, at 3.30 in the morning on 13th May, we were battered by a hailstorm. And when violent winds accompany the sound of hail, we know it's very bad news. Parts of Bordeaux were ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/05/13/the-hand-of-god/ It's all been going off in wine cyberspace, with the world's most powerful wine critic, Robert Parker, in a bit of a black hole. Tyler Colman, as reported in his wine blog drvino.com last week, questioned Parker if his team on The Wine Advocate had accepted hospitality from the wine ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/04/28/robert-parker-this-jihad-extremists-and-blobbers/ Château Bauduc has been mentioned on Decanter.com under the heading 'Gordon Ramsay lends his name to a Bordeaux wine'. Jane Anson's report highlighted the fact that this exclusive label has been awarded to us for free, and that we're celebrating ten years as the house wine at his restaurants. 'Gordon Ramsay's Selection' ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/04/26/our-gordon-ramsay-label-on-decantercom/ We've just had the week of trade tastings in Bordeaux, when the world of fine wine annually descends on the region to taste the wines from the previous vintage. A few surprises too: many 2008s are far better than most outsiders would have thought, after gloomy reports of a damp ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/04/04/2008-en-primeur-surprise-surprise/ As Oz Clarke and James May prepare to wrap up their third series on BBC2 (Tuesdays, 8pm), here is their very first Big Wine Adventure pitstop back in August 2006. 'How was your trip?' I asked. 'You're the first living people we've seen' was James's first dejected remark to us, after ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/02/10/oz-and-james-visit-chateau-bauduc/ We lost several trees in the storm last friday night, including the ancient and beautiful cedar at the farmhouse. It's a great shame, and the view from the house won't be the same without it. It's going to be a hell of a job to clear it all up, and ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/01/28/cedars-lost-in-the-storm/ Last night, we had strong winds of over 150kms per hour gusting across Bordeaux and South West France. No real harm done here, but we lost several big trees along the drive and are completely blocked in. Our biggest worry with a storm and high winds like this is the ... http://www.gavinquinney.com/2009/01/24/storms-batter-bauduc/