Archive for the ‘ Château Suduiraut ’ Category

How do you time and organise the pruning?

Mel Jones asked a very good question about pruning, and I decided to post the answer in the blog. I consulted with Daniel LLose before replying, so that is the explanation for the unusually detailed technical information in this posting! “How do you time and organise the pruning? Do you start at one side of a [ READ MORE ]

China tour. A glass of Château Pichon-Longueville on the Great Wall

I am in China at the moment, both for the launch of our new distribution agreement with Cofco, and also accompanying Ch’ng Poh Tiong on the annual three city tour of China he organises each year, 128 years of Bordeaux. We had an unusually formal signing agreement with Cofco, who are taking on exclusive distribution [ READ MORE ]

Why launch this blog?

Today we finally go live with this blog. Welcome and thank you for taking the time to visit. As MD of AXA Millésimes I am responsible for a number of vineyards, in Bordeaux, Burgundy, Languedoc, Hungary and Portugal. I spend a large part of my time visiting them all, and I hope that this blog format [ READ MORE ]

To Suduiraut for the first day of the Sauternes harvest

We have already been through the vineyard for a first trie of unbotrytised grapes to make the S de Suduiraut, but today was the first day of the main event, the picking of the botrytised grapes. Here is a picture of the first bac full of partially botrytised grapes, with, if you look carefully, the chateau [ READ MORE ]

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