Bastille Day 2010 at Clos Henri - 14th of July

For the 5th year in a row, we have celebrated Bastille Day on the estate - in our church 'Ste Solange'. The celebration is held around a particular French wine region, that we get our Marlborough winery friends, local authorities, suppliers, local clients and team to discover through regional food specialities and a wine from the region in question.

We started few years ago with Champagne (always good to start with a bubble), Rhone Valley (to warm up a bit from our cold winter), Chinon (as it was the year we built our winery and or winemaker is from Chinon) and this year we focused on Provence and Bandol.

Of course our guests get to try all these delicacies with our wines. It is a fantastic moment to gather our friends every year and share a special moment of Wine & Food. Since it is a mission to find the French delicacies, we cook ourselves (helped by our few French people on the estate) which makes it a real gift from the heart to the Marlborough wine community that fully welcomed the Bourgeois family in NZ.