It’s my Vineyard

Our guests arrive and we have a degustation [tasting] in the cool of the cave. Fred has built a suburb wooden bar area that we sit around and compare our 2005 Regnie with the newly bottled 2006.
Wine should be a partner to food, not take it over, as so many of the heavier ‘hairier’wines do. [...]

We have become aware from quite early on of another major factor influencing the taste of wine, more to do with the vinification process itself ,this is called ‘thermovinification’ a subject that I will expand upon later. Other wine growers that we know feel the same way and are dead against this process and ,when [...]

Today was a day full of visitors, which meant great activity in the kitchen,to prepare a lunch that will compliment our wine. Wine should always in our opinion be drunk with food to appreciate it to the full. The planning of a meal is of huge importance. I think of the guests, the weather, the [...]

Following the trip to Utrecht in The Netherlands and the specialist wine fair.
The wine was  exceptionally well received. 
The importer has ordered the 2005 Regnie as he said that there was a growing demand for it in Holland.  We are sorting out the shipping of this wine today and look forward to developing the market in [...]

Each vine will produce enough grapes to give us three quarters of a bottle of the delicious substance. In the weeks and months to come we will be at the mercy of the weather. The climate here can be quite extreme. Last year we had hugely high winds, hail storms that were so local that [...]

While we continue to follow up and organise delivery of our latest orders, to Cambridge university cellars, Holland and Barnsley Rugby club, the vines need some attention too. The pruning or ‘taille’ of the vines must be completed by the beginning of April. It can start as early as after the grape picking in September [...]

This week we were in The Netherlands at our first specialist wine fair. Our wine was without exception very well received and today an importer has ordered some of our 2005 Regnie, we are delighted!

Sitting in glorious sunshine on the terrace of The Restaurant du Pont having a delicious lunch we are reflecting that it is almost two years ago that we fell in love and bought Maison des Bulliats and its vines in Regnie, Beaujolais, one of the most idylic spots on earth.
Madame Verchere approaches us with the [...]

Last June Fred’s brother was visiting us from Canada, and one evening he took us to eat here, imagine my excitement when I heard the couple on the next table order a bottle of our wine. That also was a first and we felt we had arrived! Don then insisted on ordering a bottle to [...]

Once again the 2005 & 2006 vintages are receiving fantastic reviews.  Most recently at the wine fair in Utrecht.
The wine was highly praised by the professional buyers and professional restranteurs who will be making this available to the wider market.
We look forward to being able to share these wines with you in your region.  If you would [...]