We’ve just said goodbye to our great friends, the Gilbeys, so here’s a photo-journal of the last 10 days, spruced up towards the end with a few pictures from the archives. Before that we have a qui…| Gavin Quinney
What a scorcher. Though to be fair it’s probably as hot here as it is for any of our readers at the moment: 40˚C is the forecast for 1 July. Crikey. So that heralds the return of the famous Bauduc Rosé summer cocktail as a headline act, shown below. Our Crémant 2021 however is hard […]| Gavin Quinney
Toot toot! In her piece for the Telegraph last week called ‘The best bubbles for the bank holiday’, wine correspondent Victoria Moore kindly included our delicious sparkling wine. ‘With supermarket shelves awash with sparkling upstarts, our wine expert separates the gimmicks from the genuinely good (and great value)‘ was the subheading above. Under ‘Pick of […]| Gavin Quinney
“The new vintage of Quinney’s Château Bauduc Sauvignon Blanc 2024, Bordeaux, France (£13.25 in cases of six, delivery free in England and Wales for orders of 12 bottles, bauduc.com), has just landed. Crisp, streamlined, mostly sauvignon, excellent. Definitely a buy. People like it so much that Quinney is thinking of buying even more white vineyards. […]| Gavin Quinney
The first shipment of our 2024 Sauvignon Blanc and Rosé arrived this morning in London City Bond and, as the sun’s coming out, it seems a good moment to launch them on our website. The wines will arrive with our importers in some countries like Switzerland this week as well. Both wines, with our without […]| Gavin Quinney
This thrilling collection of weather graphics through the years serves really as an appendix to my Bordeaux 2024 weather and crop report. I started preparing these images of the daily rainfall and temperatures during the growing season in 2016 and they are all shown below. Nature decides how each vintage is going to turn out, […]| Gavin Quinney
Mid-winter may feel a little bleak right now but there are, we trust, some brighter days ahead. We’ve been preparing the blends of our white and rosé 2024 for bottling next month and they’re both excellent, touch wood, albeit with lower yields all round. The UK prices of our reds will have to go up […]| Gavin Quinney
Sandwiched in between the joys of Black Friday and Advent Sunday, we bring you glad tidings with a festive guide to the changes in UK duty which will kick in at the end of Dry January. You may want to adjust your wine purchases accordingly in the run up to Christmas to avoid a bleak mid […]| Gavin Quinney
Ah, the Autumn Budget, and a new dawn? A 1p reduction in the duty on a pint of draught beer? Hooray! No doubt the pubs are getting the Bonfire Night bunting out. A horror show fit for Halloween, more like, for the UK wine trade and their customers. You’d never grasp that from the analysis […]| Gavin Quinney
September is harvest month for us, so unsurprisingly it’s been a busy one. Please forgive this lengthy journal of pictures, which is really designed for you to scroll through when you have th…| Gavin Quinney
My annual Bordeaux vintage report is published on JancisRobinson’s fine wine website and on Liv-ex – the fine wine marketplace. To find previous ones, see ‘Bordeaux reports’ in the menu above. Here…| Gavin Quinney
