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Micro-Ox Question for Morgan

In response to Morgan’s recent post on Ch. Rauzan-Segla Trent asked in the comments

Morgan, Could the line in your picture above be an inert gas line, rather than a micro-ox line?
Since I’m no micro-ox expert, I passed along the query to Morgan in France. Here’s his response.
The same thought occurred to me, or that it [...]

Organic Cotton Tee Shirts Ordered!

If you were one of the hundreds from 41 states and four countries who got in on the free tee shirt offer, you can expect to have one in your hands in a couple of weeks. We’ve placed our order after making sure that the graphics were registering properly and we should receive and turn [...]

Morgan Visits Chateau Palmer

Another in the Morgan Does Bordeaux series.
When I woke up early on Tuesday morning, after the storms had knocked out the power and the alarm, I had a wave of fear run through me. Was I going to be too late for my appointment to Chateau Palmer? Luckily, I heard Antoine stirring in [...]

Wine Sediments Article Up

Part Two of Morgan’s Bordeaux Primer is up over at Wine Seditments.

Morgan Visits Chateau Rauzan-Segla -
“No Micro Ox Here!”

Another in a series of Morgan’s dispatches from Bordeaux. Look for part two of yesterday’s post on Wine Sediments later this week.
This morning I awoke to a heavy gloom. Thunderheads bumped shoulders in the distance, darkening the Medoc from Margaux to Pauillac. Deciding to be optimistic I left the skylight to my room open [...]