It’s been amazing watching the Tour de France passing through sunny Bordeaux and the beautiful vines and countryside of the Medoc. Although there is a lot to do, I can’t wait to be back in Cardan – just 6 weeks to go this Monday! It’s been another busy week. The work, equipment and preparations for […]
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To start this week, an apology. I think we may have confused our fans? In order to maintain a better history of Paradise Rescued, we now post our notes / blogs to our blogsite and link our Facebook fans to that page via a hotlink, which is shown on Facebook. I am not sure that […]
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What a joy – to see the Tour de France, the beautiful French countryside and – even better news – the sunshine. What a wonderful country. There have been a few challenges in the last two weeks!! Our efforts to register the wine as a Bordeaux Superior did not succeed – at least for the […]
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A small humorous addition to our debate of Stelvins versus corks! It’s very simple really…..in Australia our houses don’t always have solid walls and when the weather is warm, they wear thongs!! Opening a bottle in this manner would not work and therefore the Stelvin was invented? Friends, never ever ever ever open a bottle […]
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We receive three formal visits and reports per season from Albane Bervas, our organic viticultural adviser from CIVAM Bio Gironde. The health of the vines is evident from the photos. Her final summary reads “Overall the vineyard is going well. Carry on!” In talking with Albane, the biggest challenge in 2010, after a cool spring, […]
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Thank you again Soeur for the amazing photos – we will talk again at the weekend. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paradise-Rescued/337333082525?v=photos
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This week’s update is posted here and to the new blog site – the link is attached. This should give our customers, our fans and us a better way of maintaining the history, week by week. I received another superb “vineyard update” this week from Pascale. Flowering has now finished and she has started to […]
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It’s been a busy week overall, but nothing very special and noteworthy for PR. So I have added a small summary of our Cork versus Stelvin debate that we opened in the Discussions area of this page. I am interested to move the debate onto more of a Sustainable Development and environmental theme. As always, […]
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I received a wonderful email from Pascale this week. She saw a ladybird on the foliage of one of the vines. This is an important milestone in the recovery of a terrain so heavily sterilised by pesticides back to a natural living part of our countryside. We know that this change will take a long […]
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We started detailed discussions this week with Estelle Dessup, our wine maker. Making a good Cabernet Franc varietal wine in the Premières Côtes de Bordeaux is a challenge. The garage at Hourcat Est needs to be converted into the “winery” and equipment installed. Harvesting will be done by hand and the wine matured in oak. […]
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