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May 2013:
Friday May 3 Air travel: the fastest means of transport for people who have the most time to kill. And here we are killing time at London Heathrow – not one, but two cancelled flights, and today’s arrival in the … Continue reading
April 29, 2013: The Dutch wine blog Wijnkronieken highlights Chateau Rives-Blanques and its wines today
Mariella Beukers’ wholly complimentary article about the wines of Chateau Rives-Blanques (an estate “that needs no introduction”) highlights the most original of our wines, the mauzac Cuvée Occitania. “Sometimes odd-ball grape varieties like these can make unbelievably beautiful wines”, she … Continue reading
April 2013
This is the stay-at-home month when concentrated effort is what we’re concentrating on. The vines are pruned, their branches securely tied, and we wait and watch the next step: buds breaking through the old wood of the vines. Once life … Continue reading
March 24 – 26: ProWein Time in Dusseldorf, stand D 5 116 …
All the white and sparkling wines of Chateau Rives-Blanques will be open for tasting at the professional wine trade fair, ProWein. We will be there on Stand D 116 in Hall 5, with our friends and colleagues from Mas du … Continue reading
March 2013: All Pro Wein & Dine
Record-breaking amounts of snow have fallen on the Pyrenees. Down here, at 350 m altitude, we normally can expect about 600 mm of rainfall a year … and so far we have already had almost a third of that. Things … Continue reading