In: Wine Talks
Harvest 2012 Week 4!
19th September 2012Autumn has definitely arrived at Sainte Rose as we enter our fifth week of Vintage 2012. Night-time temperatures are dropping to…
Read More
Hector the Owl!
10th July 2012Coincidentally, just as our elder daughter starts reading her first Harry Potter book, we have the opportunity to save an owl…
Read More
The Simpson’s of Sainte Rose!
11th June 2012People love to joke about our surname, especially the French, who find it hilarious that we have the same family name…
Read More
Competition Season 2012!
6th June 2012This year, as always, we selected a few of our wines to enter into the important wine competitions in the UK,…
Read More
Planting Chardonnay 2012!
9th February 2012Minus 4 and Planting Chardonnay! On a bitterly cold Sunday morning, the planting team arrives at Sainte Rose, ready to plant…
Read More
Vinisud February 2012!
10th January 2012Show Time! Every two years, the eyes of the wine industry turn to the Languedoc for the Vinisud wine show (dates…
Read More
End of Vintage 2011!
10th October 2011The excitement of the first few nights of the harvest seem like a long time ago! It is now two months…
Read More
Our GSM Harvest!
26th September 2011Our Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre Harvest! The three red grape varieties indigenous to the south of France are Grenache, Syrah and…
Read More
The Last Whites!
22nd September 2011Marsanne and Roussanne are the last two white grape varieties that we havest at Sainte Rose. They originate from the Rhone…
Read More
2011 Chardonnay Harvest
12th August 2011Chardonnay 12th of August, 2011 The first grape variety to ripen at Sainte Rose is always the Chardonnay. As it was…
Read More
Picking While Beziers Parties!
9th August 2011For a lot of our neighbours, friends and aquaintences in this area the biggest party of the year is approaching. It…
Read More
Pre-Harvest Update
8th July 2011So after the ‘wacky weather’ we had earlier in the year, our climate seems to have settled down into a more…
Read More