News and Events

September has been astonishingly busy. Our normal activities of Herefordshire Art Week (H.Art) and the Ludlow and Abergavenny Food and Drink Shows were added to with harvest!  It looked for a moment as if we might be harvesting in August – totally unprecedented – but even so we are  nearly finished and September is not yet over.

We have also started a collaboration with two other Herefordshire vineyards – ANCIENT ROOTS, FRESH VINTAGE – with White Heron over by Kington and 1276 near Ledbury: three vineyards in one day  in a minibus with a concierge to explain everything – meet three families running three vineyards! Book your tour on https://whiteheronestate.com/tours/a-wine-tour-of-herefordshire/

We planted 250 replacement vines this year; fortunately most of them seem to have survived. We watered them thoroughly during the first couple of heatwaves then shrouded them with our new, miracle tech – sheeps wool! It seems to solve almost all problems. Keeps the moisture in, the weeds down, the vines fed, the soil healthy – what more could a viticulturist want?