Who knows where the time goes...

Posted by Andrew Chapman, 1:11pm 05/01/2010. Leave a comment

Can't believe where the time goes! (Blog title in honour of a beautiful song by Fairpoint Convention - and title of Sony award-winning documentary my lovely wife co-produced with the irrepressible Bob Harris last year. An award that was one of the high-lights from the last year for us.)

So, another New Year is here already, and snow again. 2009 ended with lots of the white stuff, hampering real life (and at just the time when we needed it least, trying as we were to get Christmas wine and gift deliveries out in time for the festive season!) 

Last year ended with us (well, more correctly, ME!) being pretty poor on the blogging front - but no excuses this year! Just need to be more organised and make better use of technology (just invested in extra iPhone batteries and chargers so we can keep everyone updated on all this years excitement, wherever we are)

So, first offer of the New Year: Bordeaux. I don't normally think of Bordeaux as natural Surf4Wine territory as I've always considered that others in the UK wine trade are better placed than us, doing it bigger and better. But bigger isn't always better, and with some new connections and introductions since our move to new offices and warehouse in Hampshire, I've had my head turned.

There are some stunning wines from good to very good recent vintages that just aren't about in the main-stream wine retailers, and which Surf4Wine is ideally placed to introduce you to.  So, In November we sent a buying team to Bordeaux to unearth some of them and bring them back for us to introduce to you here. Plus, in April this year we'll be travelling to Bordeaux to be right in the heart of the action as this years Bordeaux en primeur campaign for the 2009 wines kick off - and we'll be telling you all about it right here!

One of my wine predictions for 2010 is that the Bordeaux '09 campaign will be huge, even within the context of a world economy struggling to come out of recession without slipping back into another one - and Surf4Wine will be helping you to get the best wine bangs for your buck throughout 2010 - so stay tuned!

In fact, although Surf4Wine is often perceived as a very new-world orientated wine business, my wine back-ground is very much rooted in the traditional wines of France. I was last in Bordeaux in 1991, lucky enough to spend a week travelling around, tasting and meeting people while based at the beautiful Chateau Loudenne. All part of spending 7 very happy years tasting and drinking some of the finest Bordeaux wines possible while working for one of Oxford University's ancient College's.

Therefore, a fitting title for our first offer of 2010 is very definitely Back to Bordeaux - the best place to get your Bordeaux taste-buds wet ready for the coming 2009 excitement later thus year.

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