The Fourth of December is International Cabernet Franc Day (or CabFranc Day) – the holiday day for our foundation and signature grape variety. This is Cabernet Franc’s opportunity to take the spotlight as one of the world’s great (and very unique) grape varietals. The wine world owes a lot to Cabernet Franc. If you are […]
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We are always cautious in the early phases of a wine’s development. Humility, rather than brash promises about a young wine and what we think we may have achieved, is a better value for a business or brand. The contrasts with season 2021 couldn’t be more pronounced. 2021 was characterised as a cool wet difficult […]
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I saw a great quote the other day. I am not sure if it was an original or who wrote it but it was very very good. “Average players want to hear how good they are. Great players want to hear how they can keep getting better.” We all like to receive recognition for our […]
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We have been working for much of the last 12 months to define our next ten year Paradise Rescued Vision. One of the strong values we hold close to our hearts in our culture – and clearly written on our pictureVision – is that of Continual Improvement. The words are pretty self explanatory but essentially […]
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It only takes a couple of hours and a couple of degrees below zero and the dreams of a whole wine vintage are gone. Big expensive mitigation exercises like helicopters to keep the air circulating through the vineyards or hundreds of giant industrial candles in the rows of vines only work in part. I understand […]
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Following last week’s announcement of the launch of the Paradise Rescued BlockTwo Merlot Cab Franc brand, we have followed up with an interview with our Founder Director David Stannard to bring us up to speed with the major changes and developments for the niche winery brand. Q: David, thank you once again for taking […]
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Late last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a very well run and thought provoking Disruption workshop led by David Platt and Larry Quick from Resilient Futures in Melbourne. Reflecting afterwards, I quickly found myself wearing my Paradise Rescued Founder Director’s hat and compiling a short list of potential Disrupting Factors, which I […]
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Our 2010 Cloud9 and B1ockOne branded Paradise Rescued Bordeaux Cabernet Franc is tasting superb – and peaking in its maturity. Here we share a few notes on how to store, serve and drink our wine in order to get the best from it. It is also worth making a couple of up front comments about […]
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The Bordeaux Wine evidence is in. It’s Not About the Dirt! Separated by just a ten metre vineyard access-way on the top of the Hourcat plateau in Cardan Bordeaux two vineyards meet. Both grow side by side on the same soil in the same microclimate with the same geography. Essentially, they have exactly the same […]
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I have heard all extremes here in the Bordeaux vineyards over the last three weeks ranging from very sad tales of back to back harvest failures to extremely small harvests and even exuberant social media postings of mega success. Making a Bordeaux Wine success in 2018 required continual attention and hard work. And many degrees […]
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