We always love sharing the news about our friends and partners. Why? Well quite simply it creates a “win win” relationship. Without the kind help, encouragement, advice and support from a number of people and organizations, Paradise Rescued could not have succeeded. We owe a large debt of gratitude to our friends for their contribution [...]

Wow, what a week, what a kind recognition! Thank wix.com. Two and half years ago, we could barely spell Facebook. This week, wix.com awarded us their prize for best Facebook page cover image design. What a great recognition for our brand and reward for the hard work by Tricia Wiles of Sweet Graphic Design On [...]

Three weeks ago, in “From Vine to Wine”, we talked about the opening weather for the season and made mention of the detailed work that Pascale had put into pruning the vines and making them ready for season 2012. This week we are proud to release our latest “In the Vines” video which gets up [...]

We made the comment three weeks ago about how having a great team is a superb starting point for making great things happen. One of the highlights of the recent Cardan, Bordeaux trip was a visit to Chateau La Croix Taillefer in Pomerol, one of the great big name wine producing communes of Bordeaux. What [...]

As most of our regular readers will have realised by now, there’s no more passionate to place to be to write about one’s vineyard that when you are practically sitting in it, you have looked at every plant and tasted more wines in 10 days than many sommeliers do in a month. And as our [...]

This week’s blog is not a leadership session. But I do have to say…when you have a great team, great moments and great things happen. And being back here in Cardan has once again reminded me of that. Our wonderful vigneron, Pascale Bervas has once again done an incredible job in the vineyard in preparing [...]

With a small business that spans two distant countries of the world, despite having a great team in both France and Australia, long distance travel is inevitable. And apart from the leadership requirement to be in France, we simply adore spending time in our beautiful commune of Cardan with friends and team there. Personally, I [...]

We cover a lot of different topics in our weekly blog, ranging from Sustainability, the Environment, Leadership and Learning through to grape varieties, wine making and the wine market itself. Our blog is also our forum for bringing you an update on all things Paradise Rescued, what’s happening in the vineyards, winery, our wine and [...]

We talk a lot about Sustainability in our media and we regard it as one of the most important values of Paradise Rescued. And like all young organisations, we are learning – fast! This week we thought we would host our first guest blog and we couldn’t think of anyone better to get it started [...]

First up this week, I wanted to congratulate Chateau Guiraud, Premier Grand Cru Classé Sauternes in achieving full organic certification. This is fantastic to have one of the best French and Bordeaux wine labels helping to set the trend in Organic viticulture. Due to the extraordinary attention to detail and manual work required in the [...]