Category Archives for "Paradise Rescued"

#GrapeMoments – Get your red wine temperature right

I have been recently reminder on a couple of occasions that “room temperature” is a very poor measure of temperature for a red wine in a warm climate! And I feel the need to put a small correction into the thinking of our customers and red wine lovers in order to ensure that they can get […]

Vision: Did Alice learn from the Cheshire Cat?

In Lewis Carroll’s timeless book Alice in Wonderland, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat and has a quick discussion which goes like this: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where.” […]

We started together. Together we continue

After the horrible and tragic events of Friday night in Paris, I thought I would write a very simple short blog this week. Nothing else makes much sense. So many of our readers to our blog have rung us or sent notes of sympathy containing best wishes and asking them to be passed on to […]

Don’t abdicate your Personal Power

Over the last couple of days, I have had the wonderful privilege to participate in Social Media Pros 2015 #SMPros15 led by Zoe Wyatt of SocialMediaShortCut.com. By good luck, alongside me was Karen Clarke the brilliant new emerging author of “From Bullied to Brilliant” and authority on bullying management strategy. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left […]

Vine2Wine – Horsepower: not a media stunt!

For the first time ever, we welcomed Isabelle Claudel and her small shire horse Ulysse to our Paradise Rescued vineyards in Cardan, Bordeaux. It was a working visit with a very specific goal, although plenty of interested onlookers and cameras were at hand to record the event. The clock rolled back a good number of […]

#CP2CF – Crossing a Foggy Bridge

“We were enjoying our fourth day staying at a very cold Chateau Logis in Beautiran. It was the end of winter after all so one could hardly expect summer warmth. Due to our plans to return to Holland via London straight after lunch the contract needed to be signed that morning at 9am in the […]

Bordeaux 2015 beware: Get the CabFranc in there!

I am always intrigued by the seemingly calm and agreable approach of my 8,500 producer colleagues in Bordeaux who seem content to abdicate the reporting of our annual progress direct to the media. With one notable exception (that I can see thus far) I should add – thank you Gavin Quinney at Chateau Bauduc from […]

Vine2Wine – Old Vine Block Merlot: Magic or Miracle?

Four and a half years ago, we took over a sad little block of Merlot vines close to the Paradise Rescued winery and property. Despite a lot of love for much of their life, their recent history had been less kind. And in the 18 months leading up to our purchase, they had in fact been […]

#CP2CF – Do you have a Vision?

“If you don’t have a strategy and a plan, either as a business or personally, you won’t know where you are going. If you don’t know where you are going, then you will end up where you are headed! And it may not be that pleasant and it is unlikely to be what you want! […]

Vine2Wine – Bordeaux, do all good vintages end with a 5?

It hasn’t been a deliberate blog silence from Cardan Bordeaux for the last few days; more of a matter of “no time left over” with two harvest days, wine making operations and the usual steady list of improvement projects to undertake. Of course, the big question on everybody’s mind is: “Will Bordeaux 2015 be a […]