15 December 2010
For Christmas we have put together some special presentation 3 bottle Gift Boxes only available at the Vineyard.There is very limited supply of our 2009 Rose and just released is the 2009 Red. Prices start at £25. We aim to be open at weekends from 10.30 am – 3.00 pm but as we are weather dependent you may wish to ring before making a special trip.
13 October 2010
A big THANK YOU to all the volunteer pickers who helped to bring in 4 tonnes of grapes. We could not have managed without your help. The 2009 red vintage has now been bottled and labelled and is on sale at the vineyard. We always advise that you ring to check we are open as we are weather dependent. Tours remain by appointment.
12 September 2010
We have had a busy season with many visitors taking our guided tour. Tours, by appointment. will continue as we move into autumn. We are sold out of all red wine and are awaiting the bottling of the 2009 vintage. The vines are now netted to protect the grapes from the birds, and the crop looks healthy and plentiful.We are expecting 4 1/2 tons from the four varieties.Volunteer grape pickers can ring us on 01395443877 to join in on one of the four harvest dates (yet to be decided but from the beginning of October onwards)
06 June 2010
Following a successful Devon Wine Week, when our 2009 Rose Vintage was well received, we are delighted to announce that the vineyard will be open for wine sales on Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 10.30 a.m. and 03.30 p.m. Tours and tasting at £3 per person remain by appointment.
Please note that our 2007 Award Winning Red has now sold out.
26 April 2010
We now have a Premise Licence and we will be offering tours, tastings and wine sales (cash only) from 31 May 2010 in conjunction with Devon Wine Week. To book please follow our contact details.
For the next 4 weeks we will be pruning the vines ready for the 2010 crop. This, for the first time, will involve all of our acre of vines. Each of the 1350 vines will be cut back to a single or twin fruiting cane which are then carefully bent over horizontally and tied to the fruiting wire. We currently have some Dorset Down ewes,shearlings and lambs for sale
We have made an application for the above so that we are able to sell our wine to vineyard visitors from the Spring of next year
Several volunteers helped us to harvest a bumper crop of grapes on the 25th September followed by Lunch.Over 1.5 tonnes of grapes were picked and were processed by the winery a couple of hours later to produce 750Litres of Red and 350L of Rose wine juice.
Our first vintage has been awarded The John Buchan Agronomy Shield (Best Red Wine from a small scale producer) and also a bronze award in the main red wine category where we competed alongside top wine producers in the UK. We are very excited to have received such prestigious recognition of the quality of our wine and we will work to maintain this standard in future vintages.
Our Open Day of the 25 May 2009 proved to be very busy and successful. On a very warm/hot day we carried out five guided tours of the vineyard and raised in excess of £120 for Hospiscare. Feedback on tastings and wine sales was very encouraging and we are now looking forward to launching our 2009 vintage which will be a Rose wine. Thank you for your support.