AFP: star architects at the service of Bordeaux fine wines
An article (in French) written on Bordeaux wineries, cellars and especially Saint Emilion catching up to Medoc.The right bank plays fully the ecotourism card and the least of the paradoxes is where you’ll find the most beautiful ancient ruins: Saint ...
Press reviews
On the web version of the Wine Spectator, James Molesworth writes about Mauvais Garçon 2005, the American version of Bad Boy, this change was due to a brand already using the name in the US…In the special issue of Revue du Vin de France, for the Foi...
Russians and our Fine Bordeaux
Visit of Valandraud and meal at home with 4 Russian journalists as well as a young lady scouting for the shooting of a new French film.Saint Emilion and the Aquitaine region are popular destinations for shooting films, perhaps due to political will and...
Baby Bad Boy, Vin de France
Stéphane Toutoundji posted on his blog his opinion (in French), “ça bouge !!! ” (change) , which I share 100 %.The new brand “vin de France” and the results, useful in France, of this Australian study on the gap between the palate of wine pro...
Answer to Arnaud
Following yesterday’s post, Arnaud commented :“Does your last comment on the neighbor’s vineyard inspires your future cultural practices?”Regarding cultural methods and practices, I believe that it is insensible and even absurd not to question ...
In the vineyards
Last Sunday, I took a stroll in the vineyards. Below some of the pictures I took of our vines : and especially some of the vines next door waiting to be pulled and which have been heavily pruned. They received no treatments, nor organic, or chemical an...
Restaurants
Thursday, I was invited for lunch at L’Envers du Décor. The restaurant was full and had to refuse people. Coordinating personnel on the floor and in the kitchen as well as customers... is not an easy task.We had a good meal with Chateau d’Aiguille...
La vie en rose
In hot weather, there is nothing like the champagne, white and rosé during a meal.The 2009 Domaine de Chevalier Rose is really good, able to compete with the best classified growths from Provence. Seldom is it mentioned that Bordeaux also makes rosé ...
Around the vineyards
This morning I went around the vineyards in Saint Emilion and Pomerol with Christophe Lardière, Jean François Beyney and Xavier Lacoste.They looked great, with little green harvest needed, proof that our vines are balanced. Some older vines of Merlot...
Tour de France
The Tour de France will pass in front of our property in Margaux : Château Bellevue de Tayac which is, in fact located along the route of the châteaux, and the individual time trial Bordeaux-Pauillac (52 km) will take place in the famous vineyards of...
Good evening
Yesterday, we were invited by friends, owners of a famous cru from Saint Emilion, just to spend quality time and have a good conversation.We started with a Champagne Rose from Laurent Perrier, and with our meal, we tasted blind 3 white burgundies, incl...
A good Sunday
On the site of the magazine Valeurs Actuelles, an article written on October 22, 2009 by Arnaud Folch was just published online. The title : « Pieds-Noirs, une blessure française ». (Pieds-Noirs, a French wound).Some wounds heal poorly, I see from t...
