Today was my first real taste of wine making, and not only because I tasted some of the wine that I helped to make. Jeremy, the cellar manager, offered me a taste of the wine straight out of the tank. It was very sweet to my extremely uncultured palate, but Jeremy said it was good. [...]

Whilst in Bordeaux last week dropping-off our son, Richard, for his nine month work experience at a Chateau (read Richard’s Blog separately in these pages) we were told absolutely to eat at L’Entrecôte, a must-do in Bordeaux as long as you are not a vegetarian.
It was about 50 m from our hotel in the centre [...]

I got up bright and early with the sunrise at 7.30 to find that Vignobles Ducourt was already buzzing with activity. My first task was a boring one: to wash out a couple of the giant tanks in preparation for the wine that will soon be filling them all. I haven’t counted but there are [...]

Our son, Richard, is in his 3rd year at Leeds University studying French and History. For the next nine months he will be honing his language skills at Vignobles Ducourt in Bordeaux, the lucky blighter! We ship three of Ducourt’s excellent wines all available to buy at www.therealwineco.co.uk.
With Jeremy Ducourt’s blessing he will be blogging [...]

Yesterday, here in Buckinghamshire, we had more dramatic rainfall than I’ve ever seen in a 12 hour period, flooding the road outside our house, beating leaves off the trees, even stunning birds which seem to be lying dead by the side of the road in numbers. So I was able to appreciate a little more [...]