St.-Emilion s Vignobles Bardet has released two cuvées inspired by the infamous Thomas Shelby and family Shelby Company Ltd. St.-Emilion Grand Cru, hand-packed by the Peaky Blinders themselves … By May 10, 2021
By order of the Peaky Blinders, Bordeaux’s Vignobles Bardet has partnered with the hit BBC series to make a line of totally legitimate Shelby Company Ltd. Bordeaux blends.
“It’s easy to imagine a character like
Thomas Shelby importing his own wine from our great-great-grandfather
Jean Roy in the prestigious winemaking region of St.-Emilion, and we believe that these two reds are exactly reflecting the wine profiles he would have chosen, said winegrower and
Bordeaux 2018 revisited: Saint-Emilion 17th March, 2021 by Colin Hay
In the first of a series of appellation profiles to be published over the next few months, our Bordeaux correspondent,
Colin Hay, revisits the 2018 vintage in Saint-Emilion, providing an overview of the appellation in this challenging, heterogeneous yet potentially excellent vintage, and detailed tasting notes on 179 wines. His Pomerol profile will follow shortly, with articles on each of the leading appellations of the Médoc and Pessac-Léognan to be published later in the year.
My overview of the 2018 vintage – enthusiastically drafted, as I recall, on the train back from Bordeaux after
Peaky Blinders has its Fine Wine from Saint-Emilion
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In partnership with Banijay Brands and official Peaky Blinders brand owner and producer, Caryn Mandabach Productions, a winemaker from Bordeaux, France, has created two red blends stamped Shelby Company Limited « By Order of the Peaky Blinders ». The two classified wines are from Saint-Émilion, one of which being a Saint-Emilion Grand Cru.
Peaky Blinders continues to be a journey into the unexpected. In series five, Churchill outlines Tommy Shelby’s progress as ‘a tent, then a boat, then a house, now a mansion.’ To which we can now add a vineyard!