The Other Bordeaux

The Other Bordeaux I import French wine to your door, freight-free, Australia-wide. Learn more: https://theotherbordeaux.com/newsletter/

Get chauffeured around Champagne by these 3 cellar door shuttle services: https://www.sparkling-tour.com/fr/accueil/ and...
04/04/2025

Get chauffeured around Champagne by these 3 cellar door shuttle services: https://www.sparkling-tour.com/fr/accueil/ and https://www.aychampagneexperience.com/ and https://abc-champagne-tour.com/ . There’s also https://www.alafrancaise.fr/en/ who operate tours in other French vineyard regions too like Bordeaux and Burgundy and Provence. All these suggestions courtesy of Champagne V***e Maitre Geoffroy , as seen in this photo of the family winemaking team in their vines above the beautiful village of Cumières, and proudly imported by The Other Bordeaux . V***e Maître Geoffroy receive many cellar door visitors courtesy of the above shuttle services, in fact it was one of their Australian visitors who alerted me to this producer that I would never otherwise have found out about.
ABC Champagne Tour
Sparkling Tour en Champagne
A la Française
Also imported by The Other Bordeaux:
Champagne Yves Louvet
Champagne Testulat

If you're looking for somewhere blissful to stay in and around the vineyards of CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE then check out this ...
03/04/2025

If you're looking for somewhere blissful to stay in and around the vineyards of CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE then check out this website that has some fabulous and extremely reasonably priced holiday accommodation listed on it. For houses to rent amongst the vineyards, they are listed here https://www.poptourisme.fr/sejourner/hebergements-avec-vue-sur-le-vignoble/ or for houses to rent with a swimming pool, go here https://www.poptourisme.fr/sejourner/hebergements-avec-piscine/ or for bed and breakfasts, go here https://www.poptourisme.fr/sejourner/les-chambres-dhote-au-pays-dorange-en-provence/
It's never too early or late to start planning your next trip to France!
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Wines
Domaine Juliette Avril Château Maucoil Domaine du Galet des Papes

Our new Burgundy supplier Domaine Desertaux-Ferrand has two beautiful houses to rent halfway between Beaune and Nuits-Sa...
02/04/2025

Our new Burgundy supplier Domaine Desertaux-Ferrand has two beautiful houses to rent halfway between Beaune and Nuits-Saint-Georges in the commune of Corgoloin for very reasonable prices. You’ll find all the details on their website here https://desertaux-ferrand.com/gites
Could be perfect for your next French holiday.

01/04/2025

“I try not to be pretentious about wine… but if you wannabe I can help you do that also!” I do love this ad and am a fan of James Suckling’s work as a wine critic. I am not promoting these MasterClasses because I have never done one and know nothing about what they entail. I do like the ad though!

I think it was the Bordeaux novelist François Mauriac who said that wine shines with the burning summers of the past and...
15/03/2025

I think it was the Bordeaux novelist François Mauriac who said that wine shines with the burning summers of the past and that was definitely an idea I could see in my own glass yesterday evening. Cheers to the last taste of summer 2024-25!

Here’s another fabulously innocuous looking shopfront that harbours a spectacular dining experience within. It’s Lard et...
14/03/2025

Here’s another fabulously innocuous looking shopfront that harbours a spectacular dining experience within. It’s Lard et Bouchon in Saint-Émilion and because the actual restaurant is downstairs and effectively in the cellar there’s nothing to see at ground level and the entrance could easily be mistaken for some sort of wholesale butchery business or a launderette or god knows what recently entered into administration! But the reality couldn’t be further from that: This is a fabulous little restaurant, built in ancient stone, hewn from the local limestone rock, and thus cosy in winter or cool in summer, crackling with conversation and busy at lunch or dinner, delectable food beautifully presented, and led by an owner/maïtre d who owns the show and delights in playing blind wine tasting games for anyone who wants to explore his wine specials by the glass. The wine list is also profoundly good and reasonably priced if you want a bottle. I had never even noticed Lard et Bouchon in my first 25 years of visiting Saint-Émilion. Oh well, better late than never! Interior photo in the comments but don’t ever expect to see it empty on a normal day…

Doesn’t look like much, right?! You’ll just have to trust me that this is one of those culinary gems you can only find i...
06/03/2025

Doesn’t look like much, right?! You’ll just have to trust me that this is one of those culinary gems you can only find in France, in Épernay as it happens, the capital of Champagne. On the outside it looks like nothing but on the winter’s day in 2024 when I went in there it was absolutely pumping, packed to the gunnels with locals ordering plat du jour off the blackboard, which was beef cheek and a turnip purée that particularly wintry day, all washed down with an excellent selection of wines from the surrounding hillsides. In classic French fashion, they don’t have a website though you’ll find them on Facebook if you search for “chez camille Épernay”. And they’re physically at 27 Av. Alfred Anatole Thévenet, 51530 Magenta, France. It’s a few minutes from the Épernay railway station. It used to be called Café de la Mairie but everyone knows it as Chez Camille as that’s the name of the chef running the joint these days. It’s a touch chaotic but that’s OK when you’re the most popular bistro in town. The atmosphere is authentic and piping hot, as is the food. Highly recommended.

The vineyards of in the wild Cathar country of the southern Corbières hills (“Côtes du Roussillon” for the wine lovers)...
27/02/2025

The vineyards of in the wild Cathar country of the southern Corbières hills (“Côtes du Roussillon” for the wine lovers). I had the pleasure to work for another estate in this area in 2006 and it’s special to me to continue the relationship with the awesome wines made in collaboration between and Bordeaux legend . Merci pour cette belle photo.

Great to see Notre Dame open again - but we didn’t have time to take on the 500 metre queue to get in! Photo taken Feb 8...
26/02/2025

Great to see Notre Dame open again - but we didn’t have time to take on the 500 metre queue to get in! Photo taken Feb 8th.

Thank you to TOB customer .donna for this beautiful shot of Rocamadour deep in the heart of “ La France Profonde.”There’...
24/02/2025

Thank you to TOB customer .donna for this beautiful shot of Rocamadour deep in the heart of “ La France Profonde.”

There’s a $50 French wine voucher for every image published. If you have any of your own pictures of France you’d like to submit for publication on The Other Bordeaux’s social media accounts with acknowledgement of your authorship, please email them to me or send me a message. Photos in portrait orientation work best. Please note that The Other Bordeaux can only sell and send you wine if you are in Australia.

Beautiful stillness on the river Vienne (a tributary of the Loire) at Chinon by The Other Bordeaux customer .quinn.378 T...
21/02/2025

Beautiful stillness on the river Vienne (a tributary of the Loire) at Chinon by The Other Bordeaux customer .quinn.378

There’s a $50 French wine voucher for every image published. If you have any of your own pictures of France you’d like to submit for publication on The Other Bordeaux’s social media account with credit to your authorship, please email them to me or send me a message. Photos in portrait orientation work best.

A bit over 13 years ago I was living and working with friends . Plenty of snow that winter and great light too, heading...
21/02/2025

A bit over 13 years ago I was living and working with friends . Plenty of snow that winter and great light too, heading off to the vines at dawn, shadows of the great cedars on the wall of the castle. Feels like yesterday. I wouldn’t (still) be working with wine if it wasn’t for Roquetaillade. My first vintage with them was 1998…

May Day! May Day! Well, May 1st 2023 to be exact. Strolling in the fresh evening light in Saint-Émilion.
20/02/2025

May Day! May Day! Well, May 1st 2023 to be exact. Strolling in the fresh evening light in Saint-Émilion.

Great to catch up with Château Palais Cardinal last week. As well as making fantastic Grand Cru Saint-Émilion they are a...
18/02/2025

Great to catch up with Château Palais Cardinal last week. As well as making fantastic Grand Cru Saint-Émilion they are also now beekeepers. Thank you for the jar of delicious honey !

I’ve eaten at four fantastic restaurants in France in the last week but I’d have to say the food in Singapore Airlines (...
15/02/2025

I’ve eaten at four fantastic restaurants in France in the last week but I’d have to say the food in Singapore Airlines (premium economy) is really not far behind the best of them. I’d already eaten the prawn, pulse, and legume starter when I took these photos but the freshness and flavour was incontrovertible. Outstanding food for an aeroplane meal and service is out of this world too. My experience with the same airline on both legs from Sydney to Paris was equally excellent. Highly recommended! Bon appétit from somewhere over Eastern Europe!

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Is there anything more relaxing than the sight and sound of the Mistral wind blustering through the wild oaks and vineyards of Châteauneuf-du-Pape?!

New shipment of @chateau_lastours arrived into Port Botany this morning. Great to see owner/winemaker Louis de Faramond and his team in France last week. Customers will be receiving their predeparture orders in the next week or two once the ship has been unloaded and the wine completes its customs checks.

A week on and I’m still in a state of amazement about this place!

I’ve got a new favourite toy! SOUND ON! This is truly meaningless without sound. But yes, this is a toy for grown ups that faithfully produces the sound of a bottle of Champagne being opened and poured. You might have had a similar toy as a child that made the sound of a cow moo-ing?! Thank you @champagneveuvemaitregeoffroy I love this! Not as much as I love your wine but maybe the next best thing…

Day after day, year after year, the people come and go, but the painting that Vincent made with his own hands, alone under the stars, is always there, and I take heart from that as I get ready to leave Paris. It’s hard to leave this extraordinary city but it’s comforting to know that Paris will always be there too. Thank you Paris! See you again soon.

Day 3 is Châteauneuf-du-Pape day. Amen!

Head-spinning? Today was the start of the world’s most important annual wine-tasting: Wine Paris, over 5,000 wine producers spread over a vast campus, spruiking their wares to a crowd of 40,000 professional wine buyers. My focus today was on looking at new suppliers of Burgundy (including Chablis), Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and Sancerre, and the quality on show was outstanding. To name but a few @domaine_jean_pabiot_et_fils @domainedemauperthuis @georges_perrot @domaineduchardonnay @brisebarre_vouvray @chateau_la_rabotine

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My name’s Tom Munro and after 20 years working for vineyards and wineries in Australia and France, I now import French wine straight to your door: Freight-Free, Australia-wide. Click here if you would like to receive my newsletter and find out about future shipments: http://eepurl.com/dpguK5

But this wine importing business is built on 20+ years of making wine in France and Australia.

And I actually started making wine as an 8-year-old growing up in England, collecting grapes from people who had vines growing in glasshouses although I also had a couple of very hardy vines that I grew myself in a market garden near home in London.

That was back in 1985. Later, I graduated to selling my better wines on the boarding school black market as I progressed through an education dominated by my love of science.