The grapes are changing colour..
More incredible photos from Cardan, France. Thank you Soeur Petite for the great pictures and of course Pascale for all the work in the vineyard. http://tinyurl.com/PRphoto100821
Continue readingMore incredible photos from Cardan, France. Thank you Soeur Petite for the great pictures and of course Pascale for all the work in the vineyard. http://tinyurl.com/PRphoto100821
Continue readingThe best news of this week for Paradise Rescued is the arrival of beautiful little Lauriane Castaing into our community of Cardan. Congratulations Céline and Laurent – we can’t wait to meet your beautiful young girl.
Continue readingSome beautiful new photos have been posted on our Facebook page…… Our “little peas” have now become grapes!! http://tinyurl.com/PRphoto100728
Continue readingIt’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 […]
Continue readingWhat 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 […]
Continue readingWe 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, […]
Continue readingThank you again Soeur for the amazing photos – we will talk again at the weekend. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paradise-Rescued/337333082525?v=photos
Continue readingIt’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, […]
Continue readingI 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 […]
Continue readingThis week I am very proud to present Bervas Pascale, our vigneron. When you look at the pictures of the vines, Pascale’s fantastic work is obvious with pruning accuracy and the new vegetation looking so healthy. We are fortunate to have found a vigneron so devoted. We aske…d her to give a short introduction to […]
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