My dear friends, good morning! Here we are already in the month of December, damn it, time flies ! Let\u2019s take a little look at the past year, a very rich vintage in every way. Judge for yourself !<\/p>\n\n
2018, vintage of anthology \n<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n\n
Remember, our dear and precious cultural leader David Houdet confided it to us in October: this 2018 will not have been an easy one! A year of climatic extremes, it shook the teams on the property to the core. Fortunately, all\u2019s well that ends well, and it\u2019s a nugget that is slowly being born in the cellars, a vintage with the makings of the greatest, \u201crich, with a very aromatic profile and a beautiful tannic structure, a real bomb in perspective\u201d!<\/p>\n\n
The blog of the Marquis de Terme<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n\n
Pendant que les enfants prenaient place sur les bancs de l\u2019\u00e9cole, septembre 2018 a aussi sign\u00e9 l\u2019arriv\u00e9e (ou plut\u00f4t le retour d\u2019outre-tombe) de votre humble serviteur, j\u2019ai nomm\u00e9 moi-m\u00eame, le Marquis de Terme ! While the children were taking their seats in the school benches, September 2018 also signed the arrival (or rather the return from beyond the grave) of your humble servant, I myself appointed the Marquis de Terme! For four months now, I have been telling you monthly about my discoveries and making you live the life of the property, always with passion and wonder. And this is only the beginning\u2026 I will still be here, enthusiastic and dashing, with my wig firmly on, in 2019!<\/p>\n\n
A wealth of new wine tourism products<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n\n
\u201cMarquis de Terme\u201d has a touch of tourism, yes! The property has had a particularly rich year in this respect. Its dynamism was also rewarded by a \u201cBest Of Wine Tourism\u201d prize in the \u201cDiscovery & Innovation\u201d category \u00bb for its \u201cAtelier Grands Crus Class\u00e9s 1855\u201d tasting visit launched in 2018.<\/p>\n\n
Never short of oenotourism imagination, the Ch\u00e2teau\u2019s team did not limit itself to this single novelty. In partnership with the Bordeaux River Cruise company, it has also created \u00ab Margaux en vedette et bicyclette \u00bb, a day-long guided tour by boat and bicycle from Bordeaux.<\/p>\n\n
Always eager to let itself be discovered, the chateau obviously participated in the open house of the appellation at the beginning of April, welcoming 700 people in its vineyards, and once again triggered the enthusiasm of wine lovers thanks to the afterworks in the M\u00e9doc, co-organised with Chateaux Paloumey, Lamothe-Bergeron and Malescasse.<\/p>\n\n
Since October 2018, the ch\u00e2teau also welcomes \u201cthose who want to say \u2018yes’\u201d to let them enjoy the enchanting setting of the estate. In the spotlight, \u201cMarquis de Terme\u201d hosted the 2018 edition of the folkloric (and no less sporty) Marathon du M\u00e9doc in early September, welcoming 1500 guests on Friday evening for the \u201cdinner of the 1000 legs\u201d and as many for Sunday lunch. This summer, on the occasion of the festival \u201cLes Vendange du 7e Art\u201d in Pauillac, I also saw Alain Chabat and Dany Boon pass through our vineyards, whose exquisite humour I was able to taste! And all this without forgetting a new shop and a new tasting room in the heart of the estate since January 2018, to welcome visitors in the most marvellous of comforts!<\/p>\n\n
Many projects in perspective<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n\n
Are you amazed by everything that\u2019s happened this year, my dear friends? Behave yourselves\u2026 It\u2019s not over yet, with more and more new things to come for the 2019 vintage!<\/p>\n\n
\u00ab \u201cWe are finishing a decade of renovating the image of Marquis de Terme and the brand, and we are preparing a new decade. We have many renovation projects, started this year, but we will see the results in 2019,\u201d confides to me, in a tone of secrecy, the director of the estate, Ludovic David.<\/p>\n\n
On the menu, he tells me, \u201ca restaurant project in the ch\u00e2teau building, a new seminar room in a house being renovated next to the ch\u00e2teau, as well as the renovation of the vat room and wine storehouse. \u201cI can tell you, I can\u2019t wait to see the results of all these projects!<\/p>\n\n
And always, always, tirelessly going to meet directly with consumers and professionals.<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n\n
Oh yes, believe me, I can testify to this, having seen it with my own eyes on a daily basis, the teams on the property do not spare their efforts to carry the good word up and down the hill!<\/p>\n\n
\u201cCh\u00e2teau Marquis de Terme was present in December in Paris at the \u201cGrand Tasting\u201d with Bettane and Desseauve, then at the \u201cBordeaux Tasting\u201d organised by the magazine Terre de Vins in Bordeaux. We also travel abroad, I was in the USA at the beginning of the year, with the Union des Grands Crus and with our distributors, in Japan to make the distributors taste the wines at the beginning of September\u201d, Ludovic David tells me.<\/p>\n\n
2018 is coming to an end, heading for 2019, always with spirit! In the meantime, happy holidays my friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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