It’s my Vineyard

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, [...]

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 [...]