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Drinking wine can be enhanced if one knows a bit about the background of the vineyard where the wine was made. For this reason, we produce a news update every two or three  months. You can follow the work on the property and the issues that preoccupy us, as we move through the seasons. All the photos used in this site have been taken at Rouquette.

If you would like to be sent an E mail when the site is updated, please send us an  E mail by clicking on the bottle:  

To access the  newsletters written in the last two years, click on the headlines below. 

• Latest - Bye, Bye Bling - 2008 - A Harvest for the Times
• August 2008 - 2008: A Small Harvest but Higher Prices?
• May 2008 - Gold and Silver Medals for Rouquette
• March 2008 - 10th Anniversary Reflections
• December 2007 Climate Change and Bordeaux Revisited
• October 2007: Harvest
• August 2007: 2005 Bottled and 2007 in the Vineyard 
• June 2007: Managing the Vineyard: "Lutte Raisonée"
• March 2007 : Barrels -an Extra Layer of Complexity
• January 2007 : 2006 and 2005 Update
• October 2006 : Harvest 2006 - Hot and Wet!
• July 2006: The 2004 Vintage Bottled
• May 2006 : Yield and Quality

Older newsletters, dating back to 2001, can be accessed by clicking on the three subject headings below: 

Terroir and What's Different about Rouquette?

Apart from it's unique terroir, we look at issues like the use of sulphur and  barrels, the impact of changing the yield, the changes we have made since we bought the vineyard in 1997 and the prizes won. Terroir is something  we can't alter,  but we cover the  many changes we have made  to improve the wine.We examine the effect of global warming on our wine.

Vintage Comments

Before the harvest, after the harvest and after the wine is bottled. You can follow our evolving opinion!

Economics of Bordeaux 

I was trained as an investment analyst. It has been interesting (and sadly depressing) to watch and analyse the evolving wine crisis and the wine bureaucracy's (AOC) reactions, from an economic perspective.

Michael Banton.