In Part 1, our young guest writer Jack Maltus gave us a summary of the story a winemaker follows from selecting the grapes up to the first fermentation. In this, ...
This week we have the pleasure of having a guest writer from Chateau Teyssier the renowned Saint Emilion Grand Cru and home of Bordeaux super-brands such as the 100 point ...
Writing in the (London) Times this weekend journalist Adam Sage reports on the new technologies that the vineyard owners of Bordeaux are starting to employ to address climate change and ...
Is frost bad for vineyards. The short answer is – it depends on the time of year. Vineyard frost during the winter up to about March 15th at the latest ...
Bordeaux vineyard legend holds that donkeys taught us how to prune. The story goes that a priest was visiting starving parishioners with supplies carried by his donkeys in early winter. ...
Learning about pruning Bordeaux vineyards is an essential part of vineyard ownership. It is the moment in the annual vineyard cycle where an owner or vineyard manager can exert the ...
Over many years working with hundreds of investors seeking to purchase a Bordeaux winery we have come to see that there are a handful of topics that are often underestimated ...
The Weather and its effect on vineyards. It may sound like we are stating the obvious but the first thing to consider is that a Bordeaux winery is a farm, ...
Last week we looked at the first of the three lease options available for the owner of a French vineyard in our discussion about vineyard management (read part one here). Leases ...
What are the most important things to know about How to Manage a Bordeaux Vineyard? In this article we will look at one of the starting points relating to vineyard operational ...