My Life in Wine – Part 18 – A man in a van in France

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Tony Laithwaite

This is the cover of a Bordeaux Direct Catalogue from 1976. Just France? Yep. The Sunday Times Wine Club may have started me off globetrotting for wines, but France was what I stuck to doing for BD customers back then; […]

Wicked pairings for Halloween

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

With Halloween coming up this weekend, our team of wine buyers has turned to the infamous region of Transylvania, Romania to hand pick some frighteningly good pairings on everything from pumpkin to juicy rare beef. Having previously been known as […]

Win tickets to Laithwaite’s LIVE London 2015!

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Just 10 days to go before our flagship event, Laithwaite’s LIVE London 2015, and we couldn’t be more excited! We hope to see you there: head over to our Twitter or Facebook feeds to enter our ticket giveaway. […]

Puisseguin

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Tony Laithwaite

I can’t write this week. Nothing jolly at any rate. Puisseguin is the village near Bordeaux where I first worked in wine, at the Cave Coop fifty years ago. Yesterday’s bus disaster was on the road I know so well, […]

The 2015 Harvest continues

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Friday 9 Oct Harrow and Hope vineyard, Marlow I’d washed 150 grape baskets before the sun came up, this morning, before I paused to think “what the **** am I doing? In a few weeks I’ll be 70 so why […]

Nikki at Le Chai – Bordeaux 2015 – Part 2

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Friday 2nd October Tour of Ste Colombe and its two oldest buildings Tony and Barbara Laithwaite bought Château du Bourg in 1999 from the old local fishmonger with a van, Monsieur Barthoumeyroux. In fact, the house had once been three […]

Nikki at Le Chai – Bordeaux 2015 – Part 1

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Not content with harvest stints in McLaren Vale in Australia and Marlborough on New Zealand’s South Island, our ‘Flying Wine Writer’ Nikki completes a hat-trick of 2015 vintages in Bordeaux. Here’s her first of two reports from Le Chai au […]

Blog break for harvest

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Tony Laithwaite

Wine harvest dates can be hard to nail. This Spring the vines started early so harvest dates were pencilled in early; mid-September for our Bordeaux vineyards, early October for our English vineyards. Then, cool August pushed the dates back […]

My Life in Wine – Part 16 – California

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Tony Laithwaite

Perhaps the best way to learn about wine and wine people is by taking customers around the vineyards, being a tour guide. I first did this when I worked in Bordeaux in ’69, occasionally hiring myself out as an English-speaking […]

My Life in Wine – Part 15 – Selling Wine in the Seventies

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Tony Laithwaite

Back from Georgia and back to trying to remember the Seventies in the UK – which nowadays seems like it was a foreign country too. What was it like selling wine in the UK back then? Well, despite the generally […]

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