![]() But with the heat from the horses came the smell ! The loft had wooden slats on the floor which you could open and close if you got cold. ![]() I was one of two English trainees we lived for board and lodgings in a loft over the stables. ![]() I was 16 and a half years old – it was quite an education.Īll those years at school didn’t prepare me for it at all. I arrived in the Medoc – flat as a pancake – howling wind in the winter and cold and wet. Today the wines are pretty good but it has passed through several hands since then. Cantenac-Brown is a third growth Margaux and was not a very good one in those days. I worked at Chateau Cantenac-Brown for eight months. In 1967, my brother in law arranged for me to go and work in Bordeaux. I actually found for the first time that I really enjoyed life and this wine thing was really quite fun. My father had a friend from his schooldays who had a wine company so I was able to go and start there, as a cellar rat. That is the best compliment one can have. I’m very lucky because I have customers that I recognise who have been coming for at least 25 years, not necessarily only French and British but Americans and Australians too. One that comes back with a smile and likes what we are trying to do, because that’s actually all that matters. Juveniles has been an institution for nearly 30 years and is still going strong at a time when many restaurants turn over in under 3 years. Luckily we got the opportunity recently and met up with Tim at his wine bar – Juveniles in the 1st arrondissement. She said that she had been enjoying the ‘Wine Ten Questions’ site and suggested that Tim Johnston would be an excellent subject – when next we were in Paris…. Hazel was the Australian Wine Bureau chief executive for Europe up until 2003 and was largely responsible for promoting Australian wines to the British Trade and press. That morning we bumped into Hazel Murphy and Annie Knappstein. Joe’s is a ten minute drive out of the Adelaide CBD and our absolute favourite place for an after walk or swim coffee. We were at Joe’s Cafe at Henley Beach earlier in the year.
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