Is your winemaker’s season on track? 8 essential steps to follow: Part 2
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, ...
8 Essential Steps to the Winemakers’ Season: Part 1
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 ...
A Vineyard Business Plan – Where to Start ?
Something that we regularly talk through with our clients before they purchase a Bordeaux vineyard is careful consideration of a vineyard business plan. Not so easy early on when it ...
Bordeaux Vineyards – How to Prune: Part 2
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. ...
Bordeaux Vineyards – How to Prune: Part 1
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 ...
Risks of Owning a Vineyard
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, ...
Things to know before buying a Bordeaux vineyard
The Bordeaux vineyard community – first steps If you are just starting the journey of seeking to understand what it might take to join the Bordeaux wine making community it ...
How to manage a Bordeaux vineyard – Part Two
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 ...
How to manage a Bordeaux vineyard – Part One
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 ...
Market and Investment, Tips and Guides
Dreaming Of Buying A Bordeaux Vineyard?
At Vineyards-Bordeaux we talk to many people who love the idea of the vineyard lifestyle and of buying a Bordeaux vineyard. Spending a moment with your eyes shut will no ...
Buying Bordeaux Vineyards
This week on 18th August the Financial Times published an article offering a snapshot analysis of the Bordeaux vineyard market and who is buying Bordeaux vineyards in the context of ...
Bordeaux Winery purchase process
In most cases the signature of the “Acte” or what is referred to in many other countries as the completion of contracts or close of escrow takes place in the ...