And so a whole year has past since I became the proud owner of Vally Farm Vineyards and what a year it has been. When I initially took over last January, the country was in lockdown, and I was very much a novice in wine terms, other than drinking it of course!

It’s been a great summer here at the Vineyard. Read on to hear all about it

Owning a Vineyard doesn’t just mean learning about wine! There’s a whole other host of skills to learn as well

Spring, when everything bursts back into life is always a special time of year, but this year it is especially so after all the problems of 2020. It is also my first spring in the vineyard. I am eagerly watching the buds on the vines (which seemed so brutally cut back during pruning) beginning to break open and grow.

Pruning: the act of cutting back and maintaining vines in order to maintain the vine form, regulate the vines, improve fruit quality and improve bud fruitfulness. Last time I posed the question ‘how different from building can running a vineyard be?’. Well…. It turns out that the answer is very!