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A real turning point for the farm, and a real landmark in my life. After a winter and spring of planning, drawing, calling and researching the vines have finally found their home in three and a half acres of Otter Farm soil. Half are fairly reliable Seyval blanc grapes – capable of giving us average still wine but staggering sparkling – the other half shared between the less-than-certain Pinot noir and the altogether more marginal Gerwurtztraminer and Sauvignon blanc vines. This iffy twosome finds its home in an English vineyard for perhaps the first time today and tests our view that climate change is already with us

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