Gavin Quinney

The Guinaudeau family, of Châteaus Lafleur and Grand Village, have decided to leave the Pomerol and Bordeaux appellations from the 2025 vintage: “our decision-making and the resulting practices…are evolving much faster than what is authorised in our Appelation…system”. #lafleur #grandvillage

The deadline for Fantasy Premier League is 6.30pm (UK) Fri 15 August. Register a team on fantasy.premierleague.com and contact me to join the famous Chateau Bauduc mini-league. It’s free to join and the top 10 at the end of the season win some wine. DM me or email gavin@bauduc.com. #fpl #bauducfpl

‘iPhone needs to cool down’. Vines too probably - Sémillon for our Crémant at Château Bauduc. #bdx25 #yearinthevineyard

Strict rules for British tourists going to EU to come in within weeks European border rules to demand proof of accommodation and return tickets for travelling Britons as digital scheme is introduced from October 12

Strict rules for British tourists going to EU to come in within weeks

Worth reading through to the FAQ - free to read (for 7 days)

www.thetimes.com/article/50a0...

Veraison in the vines, when the grapes change colour. A walk around Château Bauduc yesterday evening - this is Merlot, much of it destined for our Rosé. #veraison #merlot #yearinthevineyard #bdx25

Wine shortage fears after bottling workers go on strike Staff at the Encirc factory in Bristol, which supplies all major British supermarkets, voted to walk out over the firm’s ‘mean and greedy’ pay offer

Wine shortage fears after bottling workers go on strike

Lordy. With “40% market share” Encirc “supplies all the major supermarkets and is used by 18 of the top 20 wine brands in the UK.”

www.thetimes.com/article/cef6...

Final day of the season…

… and the Château Bauduc #fpl Fantasy League. Top 50 managers (of 180) after gameweek 37, pre 38 this Sunday. A hugely competitive mini league!

Good luck all 🤞#bauducfpl

Last 3 games of the season…

… and the Château Bauduc #fpl Fantasy League. Top 50 managers (of 180) after gameweek 35, pre 36 this weekend.

Good luck all🤞#bauducfpl

Hanging on in there… this is one helluva competitive mini league.

Two incredible games and one of the all-time great semi-finals. Bravo #intfcb #ucl

Absolutely incredible Champions League semi-final between Inter Milan and Barcelona. Can’t remember any two-leg tie quite like it. 3-3, 6-6 on aggregate.

Now for 30 minutes extra time.
#InterBarca

Crucial and thoroughly enjoyable 3-1 home win for the Chels against Liverpool. Happily the deserved premier league champions Liverpool put out half a team of second tier players. Georgie Q, Naomi, Aleesa and I weren’t complaining. Cole Palmer getting his goal at the end a huge relief all round. #cfc

With Sophie Chelsea Quinney, daughter no 2, at Chelsea today. (She was born at the hospital up the road in case you thought… 😉)
Important 1-0 v Everton re Champions League slot.
Day return on the train from Worcs after we’d come by car via night ferry on Thursday from Caen to Portsmouth. Bonkers 🙄

Gravel and grass. #paviethedog #merlot #yearinthevineyard

A good question but with London City Bond, where we ship the wine to in vol, store it and deliver from there, Scotland is prohibitively expensive for Scotland delivery. Edinburgh is zone 8 (£51 plus VAT for 1 x 12 btl case) Glasgow zone 7 (£32 plus VAT). Comp to £15 in Eng/Wal. Looking to change it.

Last weeks of the season…

… and the Château Bauduc #fpl Fantasy League. Top 50 managers (of 180) after gameweek 32, pre 33.

Good luck all🤞#bauducfpl

Gosh. Pole position in the Easter Saturday Telegraph and Victoria Moore’s kind words: ‘the new vintage of Quinney’s Château Bauduc Sauvignon Blanc 2024 (£13.25 in cases of six, delivery free in England… bauduc.com), has just landed. Crisp, streamlined, mostly sauvignon, excellent. Definitely a buy.’

A lovely note from Victoria Moore, the Telegraph’s wine critic, for our Château Bauduc Sauvignon Blanc 2024. Even better with a headline pic in the Easter weekend edition. ‘Definitely a buy.’ Toot toot!

Good article too (‘gift’ version so hopefully no paywall):

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d7bdba8...

Philip Larkin’s (unpublished) poem on the plight of the librarian.

Ange in stitches over that

Any breakdown on what types of sparkling wine? Eg Champagne v Crémant v Prosecco.

March can be underrated. #yearinthevineyard #chateaubauduc #sauvignonblanc #bdx25

We’re paying more tax than ever, so why is Britain so skint? The chancellor is dealing with one big expense that did not trouble predecessors such as George Osborne in the same way

We’re paying more tax than ever, so why is Britain so skint?

⁦‪Tom Calver‬⁩ in The Sunday Times. Free to read version.

www.thetimes.com/article/e1a6...

Our lives are better than ever, but negativity is skewing our brains We are surrounded by possibilities our forebears could not have imagined, yet we wallow in bad news

Our lives are better than ever, but negativity is skewing our brains

⁦‪Matthew Syed‬⁩ in The Sunday Times. Free to read version.

www.thetimes.com/article/f2e3...

Congratulations Newcastle United.

A pulsating final. Beating Arsenal in the semi-final over two legs and this Liverpool team at Wembley takes some doing. And 70 years… blimey. #NUFC 🥂

Donald Trump threatens 200% tariff on EU wine and champagne US president says levy on alcohol imports would be retaliation for ‘nasty’ 50% tariff imposed on bourbon whiskey

Donald Trump threatens 200% tariff on EU wine and champagne

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Important week or so in Fantasy Premier League…

… and the Château Bauduc #fpl mini league. Top 50 managers (of 180) after gameweek 27, pre 28:

The world’s gone for inform Salah as Captain, so I’ve gone Cole Palmer 🥶 - bonkers.

Good luck all🤞#bauducfpl

fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/3929...

Tesla sales in Europe plummet by 45% amid Elon Musk backlash Electric carmaker’s chief executive is having a ‘polarising’ effect on the brand and putting off potential buyers, according to a survey

Tesla sales in Europe plummet by 45% amid Elon Musk backlash

“Swasti-cars” probably isn’t helping 🤔

www.thetimes.com/article/e4b0...

Jeremy Clarkson: Brexit makes me want to sit in a gutter and weep Since we left the EU it’s been easier to get into Iraq than France. None of this has made our lives better in any way

Jeremy Clarkson: “Brexit makes me want to sit in a gutter and weep”

“None of this has made our lives better in any way"

Clarkson’s column in The (Leave-voting) Sunday Times

This is a free-to-read version, for 7 days, with no ‘sign up first to continue’.

www.thetimes.com/article/5356...

AOC Médoc Blanc has been approved by INAO - meaning white wines carrying Médoc label will be possible from 2025 vintage. Will any of the big names like Pavillon Blanc use it?

Important few weeks in Fantasy Premier League …

… and the Château Bauduc #fpl Fantasy League. Top 50 managers (of 180) after gameweek 23, pre 24:

Double gameweeks, Assistant Manager chips active, Triple Captain (Salah), the lot.

Good luck all🤞#bauducfpl

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