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People Power and Bottling Machines
Listening to the people: 4 weeks to the day from when we emailed our customers to ask whether they preferred corks or screwcaps, the Bauduc bottling machine whirred into action. With a clear mandate for screwcaps on whites and rosé, and corks for reds, we rented €800k worth of kit. Missed the survey results? Click here.
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Bordeaux 2010, Part 1: The Weather.
The people at Liv-ex, the leading market place for fine wine, know a geek when they see one. So they asked me to write a briefing on the 2010 vintage in Bordeaux for their ‘Insiders’ guide to the global fine wine market’. If you don’t like stats and graphs, look away now. Published here on our blog.
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Bordeaux 2010, Part 2: The Wines.
The follow-up article, this time without the weather charts. These briefings were written as a prelude to the world’s fine wine trade coming to Bordeaux in late March and early April to taste the wines. With 2009 and 2010 both lined up in the barrel cellars, the top Châteaux have never had it so good.
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Parker gives Bordeaux a Double Boost
Über US wine critic Robert Parker announced this month that he was handing over the reviews of Californian wine to a member of his team, leaving him to concentrate on Bordeaux and the Rhône. Widely rumoured to be a sign of semi-retirement, further investigation shows that nothing could be wider of the mark.
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Michel Roux’s BBC Sommelier: How to Taste White (video)
Little did we know that a Scholarship winner from Michel Roux’s ‘Service’ on BBC2 would soon be serving up our wine at the Hotel du Vin. The wine star of the show was Ronan Sayburn, Master Sommelier and Director of Wines and Spirit at HdV, and here he shows what to look for in a white wine. Using Bauduc, of course.
 
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