It’s my Vineyard

Our friends in Morgon ,who have been working their land for the last thirty years ,have never seen the vines so advanced in their growth! I remarked before that on April 21st last year the small green shoots had just formed. Today on April 25th there is a huge mass of leaves, the landscape being […]

Fernand came today to check the 2006, wine that is still in the ‘cuves’ or vats. Untill the wine is bottled we need to add half a gramme of bisulphate each month to each cuve, this acts as a sort of disinfectant and is absolutely necessary to keep the wine in peak condition .
The small […]

April sales have been good and the register for the cave, recording every detail, has as usual been a struggle, but I receive 10 out of ten for accuracy this time and the gruff monsieur douannier stamps the page with great authority, and when I feebly complain how difficult it is says ‘Madame you only […]

In between lorries coming to pick up the order for Holland and another lot for the U.K today, we dashed across beautiful countryside to the cool and relative calm of the water mill I spoke of in the Auvergne region of France.
The geology is volcanic and before Beaujolais we became quite used […]

I have just picked up on an interesting article about Japanese comics in South Korea featuring French wine.  An article in Asahi and commented on Vinography.
Wine is enjoying an unprecedented boom in South Korea, where the distilled spirit shochu has traditionally been the people’s favorite alcoholic drink.

Wine imports were worth $88.6 million (about 10.3 billion […]

Maison des Bulliats is now listed on the Wine Blog Atlas!  The image below shows where we are .
Does this mean we are now “on the map”
We are pleased with the interest that we are receiving for our Fine French Beaujolais and are enjoying being able to supply this wine to different pats […]

Buying ‘Omar’, as he is called, was an absolute must! When we started to receive large orders for wine to be sent all over the world, we found that most of the lorries arrived unequipped to take the fully charged pallets from the cave to the road, the semi articulated lorry being unable to enter […]

We have 600 bottles of wine to label and box up ready for the transporter next week. We decide to go for a bike ride, before it gets too hot. The Beaujolais landscape is surprisingly hilly.
Before too long outside Regnie Durette there are steep climbs and I struggle to make the ride without dismounting, […]

Although the sun is so hot and the cherry tree in the garden has, almost over night, burst into white blossom.
 
 
 
 
 
 
The peonys surrounding my little vegetable patch are a stunningly beautiful pink.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The vines on the other hand are still ’sleeping’ and look strangely wintry amongst the spring colours of the rest of the landscape, […]

The minerals in the soil and the fruit that have been crucial in forming our wine are made more complex in the wine making process. It is this complexity that is so interesting when on the pallete, combined with the food flavours that bombard our senses.
We started our meal with a saucisson en brioche on […]