Saturday, January 24, 2009

Best wishes from the GIE


Dear Friends and customers,

now it's time for you to celebrate so let us look forward to a prosperous 2009,
and be stronger in Ox year!

May the OX brings Good Health, Good Fortune and Peace
to you and your family.


sincerely.

The GIE Wine Growers

Friday, January 23, 2009

Chateau Grand Abord's owners visited China !


For the first time, Mrs & Mrs Dugoua, came to discover China, and let China discover their wines.

they arrived in Canton (Guangzhou) in the early morning of the 15th of January, less than 2 weeks before the Spring Festival. The weather was warmer than in Bordeaux, where the vineyards were coated by the snow.

They were also warmly welcome by the team of FRANCE TECH CHINA who was preparing their visit.
After a first contact with the luxury shops of the Canton Friendship Store, including the wine store were the GIE wines are available. They also appreciated the ability of the sales team to help you choosing which GIE wine is adapted to your needs.

The evening was an exclusive event for VIP. in a secret place of Canton, they had the opportunities to share their wines with some Luxury Real Estate Top Managers, French official, Airline Executive, Skilled Architect, etc. All wine lovers, all found of the GIE Wines.



The next day was also busy, discovering the specificity of Chinese wine market, and having some meetings.
Saturday 17th of january 2009: Shenzhen
After a quick travel by express train, Mr & Mrs Dugoua arrived to the wealthiest city of China: Shenzhen.


Here they were welcomed by Mr Zhang, owner of CLASSIC VINTAGE, famous and highly respected wine distributor in Shenzhen area.


After the meeting, they visited the Ole Shops in MIX'C and Holiday Plaza, where you can find the GIE Wines. They also check our GIE wines tasting, organised in those shops, and saw how Chinese people appreciate the high quality Bordeaux wines we specially selected for them.



The evening was concluded in LAUREL restaurant (Century Plaza Branch), where a GIE Wine Dinner was hold.

40 guest where here, including some journalists from the well known WORLD WINEVENT magazine and the reference website of Shenzhen : shenzhenparty.com

After they get interviewed, Mr and Mrs Dugoua enlightments about being a Chateau owner in Bordeaux were highly appreciate by the guests, who all get charmed by the long history between Chateau Grand Abord and the Dugoua family.

The guest were also seduced by the GIE wines: fragrant, complex, all with an unique style coming from unique terroirs and the passion of the families owning those Chateaux.
For sure our guest will not forget this event, and if you were not here, don't be sad, we will organise more events this year and you can now find the GIE wines in a lot of outlets.
Please contact us if you don't find the GIE wines.


Thursday, December 11, 2008

Chateau Grand Abord owner's in China


Dear Friends, dear Customers,

Mr and Mrs Dugoua, owners of Château Grand Abord and Président of the GIE will come to meet you in January. Some special events will be hold in Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

More information within a few weeks.

Château Robin in TASTED wine magazine



Dear Friends, Dear Customers,

The Summer 2008 issue of the wine magazine TASTED has published "The Wine Guide by Andreas Larsson", World Best Sommelier. Chateau Robin 2005 has been classified among his "Top Picks", "The top of the respective category, the wines that stood out the most and have a lot of typicality, character, good structure, legnth and some complexity". To read, print or save this article (Sorry for its big size, 4,24 MB), CLICK HERE.

Thank you !

亲爱的朋友,尊敬的客户:

葡萄酒品尝杂志2008年夏季刊物已出版了全球最佳侍酒师"安德烈拉尔森葡萄酒指南"。

2005年的罗宾庄园葡萄酒已归类为他的"顶级选择"之列,"各类型葡萄酒的卓越,脱颖而出,它们拥有典型的特性,良好的结构,悠长且有几分复杂"。阅读、打印或保存此文章,点击这里(抱歉!占用空间大,4.24MB)。

谢谢!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

GIE Wines at the French Food Festival

from 15 to 29 of november was held in Shenzhen the "French Food and Wine Festival"

The GIE was proud to be part of this event by presenting his wines to the wine lovers of Shenzhen.

The opening ceremony was in the freshly opened Holiday Plaza Shopping Center (in front of Windows of The World) and among a lot of VIP we had the chance to meet Mr Peytregnet, French Consul in Guangzhou who was there to support the event. He showed a great interest to our wines and was very supportive.

But the most inportant news is that from now on you can find our wines in Olé Mix'c and Olé Holiday Plaza.

Mr Peytregnet

Mr Peytrenet meet our team and our main Distributor in Shenzhen
From left: Mr Peytrenet, Mr Billot-Grima, Mr Bonnal, Mr Zhang (Classic Vintage)

The VIP Tasting

Our wines on the French Food Festival Shelves (Olé Holiday Plaza)

Tasting in Olé Holiday Plaza

Tasting in Olé (MIX'C)