The Evolution of English Wine
It is very important for a man in my position – invariably stood on my own in a field, covered in mud, talking to plants, that sort of...
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Fear and Loathing in the West Country
A blog about the trials and tribulations of making wine in England.
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Huxbear
May 105 min read
An Eternal Fight between Man and Plant
Things continue to move apace in the vineyard. I have said this before, but it bears repeating: Vines grow like absolute triffids when the w
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Lucy Hulland
Apr 294 min read
Oh Bacchus, Where Art Thou?
After very much enjoying the week of bright and Baltic weather that this increasingly bonkers season offered up to us last week, normal serv
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Lucy Hulland
Apr 224 min read
On the Hunt for Springtime...
Having successfully made it one week into this brave new world of non-biblical rainfall, your correspondent emerges heroically from the fiel
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Lucy Hulland
Apr 153 min read
Driving into Spring.
When – in the dim and distant past – your correspondent decided to plant a vineyard in England, there were a number of things that we didn't
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Lucy Hulland
Jun 14, 20234 min read
2022 Harvest Report
As the sun continues to beat down on Devon – and everywhere else by the sounds of it – this feels like as good a time as any to do the...
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Lucy Hulland
May 26, 20234 min read
To beer or not to beer?
Hello! It has been a year, so I thought that it was probably about time that I updated my, er, weekly diary. And it has been a bit of a...
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Huxbear
May 12, 20224 min read
Tasting the competition
It's altogether too early on a Saturday morning and I am sitting on a train. I'm almost never travel by train, but if I'm being honest, this
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Huxbear
Feb 15, 20224 min read
Solar, so good!
Hello again. The last time we met, we discussed how a real professional goes about repairing a generator. This time, we are going to...
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Huxbear
Jan 7, 20224 min read
Extremely Hot Bumps in the Road
Hello, I have been meaning to use the natty blog tool on our new website back end software for ages, and lo, the new year seems as good a...
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Huxbear
Dec 12, 20194 min read
An Explosive Summer
Well, summer started with a couple of bangs. Great big mighty literal bangs. The last time that we met, the weather had taken a turn for...
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