Gavin Quinney
@gavinquinney.bsky.social
Views from a Bordeaux vineyard. Wine at Château Bauduc http://bauduc.com: sold direct in UK, incl to Rick Stein, Ramsay and people at home, also🇨🇭🇮🇪 🇳🇴 🇨🇦 Whinges about duty, Brexit. #FPL geek. Vintage reports on Jancis Robinson, Livex, http://gavinquinney.com
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Gavin Quinney
@gavinquinney.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Here’s a starter pack for people who (mostly) talk about wine 🍷https://go.bsky.app/23MGG6B
Reposted by 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
August 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
August 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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
August 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
‘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
Worth reading through to the FAQ - free to read (for 7 days)
www.thetimes.com/article/50a0...
Worth reading through to the FAQ - free to read (for 7 days)
www.thetimes.com/article/50a0...
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
www.thetimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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...
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
July 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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
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...
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...
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
www.thetimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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...
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
… 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
May 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
… 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.
… 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.
May 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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.
… 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.
May 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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
Now for 30 minutes extra time.
#InterBarca
May 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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
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
May 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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 🙄
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 🙄
April 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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 🙄
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 🙄
April 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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
… and the Château Bauduc #fpl Fantasy League. Top 50 managers (of 180) after gameweek 32, pre 33.
Good luck all🤞#bauducfpl
April 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
… and the Château Bauduc #fpl Fantasy League. Top 50 managers (of 180) after gameweek 32, pre 33.
Good luck all🤞#bauducfpl
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...
Good article too (‘gift’ version so hopefully no paywall):
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d7bdba8...
April 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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...
Good article too (‘gift’ version so hopefully no paywall):
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d7bdba8...
Reposted by Gavin Quinney
Philip Larkin’s (unpublished) poem on the plight of the librarian.
April 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Philip Larkin’s (unpublished) poem on the plight of the librarian.
March 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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...
Tom Calver in The Sunday Times. Free to read version.
www.thetimes.com/article/e1a6...
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
www.thetimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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...
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
Matthew Syed in The Sunday Times. Free to read version.
www.thetimes.com/article/f2e3...
Matthew Syed in The Sunday Times. Free to read version.
www.thetimes.com/article/f2e3...
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
www.thetimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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...
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 🥂
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 🥂
March 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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 🥂
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 🥂
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...
… 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...
March 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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...
… 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
“Swasti-cars” probably isn’t helping 🤔
www.thetimes.com/article/e4b0...
“Swasti-cars” probably isn’t helping 🤔
www.thetimes.com/article/e4b0...
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
www.thetimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Tesla sales in Europe plummet by 45% amid Elon Musk backlash
“Swasti-cars” probably isn’t helping 🤔
www.thetimes.com/article/e4b0...
“Swasti-cars” probably isn’t helping 🤔
www.thetimes.com/article/e4b0...
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...
“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...
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
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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...
“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...
Reposted by Gavin Quinney
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?
February 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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?