hail

Free for all 17 Jul 2014 – We are going to preface the titles of our Throwback Thursday republications with 'TT' if the...

Don't quote me Some Bastille Day thoughts from Nick. Schadenfreude, joy provoked by the misery of others, is not a sentiment many of...

Free for all Here in the western Languedoc, much of the talk is about hail, the hail that on Sunday night wiped out...

Inside information 11 Jul - See also Haisma on hail, and Burgundy vintages. 29 Jun – Yohan Castaing sends this very worrying...

Inside information Gareth Skidmore lives in Burgundy, where he works as a translator and teaches wine-business English to Burgundians. One month to...

Free for all Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc writes: Thousands of hectares of vines between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers in the Entre-Deux-Mers...

Free for all Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc writes: To locate this scene of devastation, see this map on Bauduc.com and see also...

Inside information Gareth Skidmore lives in Burgundy, where he works as a translator and teaches wine-business English to Burgundians. With all the...

Free for all Gavin Quinney' writes: We had a storm in Bordeaux late last Friday and in the early hours of Saturday. Summer...

Inside information Yohan Castaing writes: London is not the only place where temperatures soared in recent days; France has also been subject...

Inside information Last Wednesday, 20 June, hail storms in the Middle Mosel caused severe damage in some of the region’s vineyards. Worst...

Inside information A brief visit to the Douro last month yielded some interesting tastings of both ports and table wines, on which...

Free for all In view of the photographs we published recently in What hail does to vines, we thought you might be interested...