Join us! We are looking for two passionate, full-time staff to join our team.  If you have a solid knowledge of vineyard and winery work, and you’re keen to be a part of our no-compromise, cutting edge vineyard project, pulling out a
A sketchy image of the vintage 'A team' enjoying a well earned meal after a long and draining (yet immensely satisfying) harvest. Everything is now picked, all Chardonnay in barrel and mostly dry, and all Pinot pressed off. Good yields and what appea
Killer review by the great Irvine Welsh for our Between Two Mountains Pinot 2022 in the latest (fabulous) Noble Rot Magazine. 🙏@irvine.welsh & @noblerotmag ❤️❤️❤️ #chooselife #choosewine #liveuntilyoudie #trainspotting #placeofchangingwinds
Larderdark x Stockinger. This is brother Remi. Brother Remi is filling a new, 600L, thick-staved Stockinger cask with our beloved Larderdark Chardonnay. Take a look at the following (undoctored) images of the inside of the cask. The tight grain, lon
Pinot Gothic. Our ‘Echalas’ block was picked and processed over the last couple of days (see pics that follow). Feels like this parcel finally has something to say (with the juice offering crazy flavours and sappy freshness). It will now
Day 6 of harvest. In a year like this, when so much of the fruit is immaculate, sorting can feel like a waste of time and (not insignificant!) effort. We really only had one parcel that needed it (thank you weevils!) For all of our other parcels, we'
A fitting (@samsmith) song playing as we hand destemmed some beautiful Pinot from our Beyond the Forest parcel using snippers, leaving the berries perfectly intact with their pedicel attached. We’ll see, once again, what difference it makes aga
First Chardonnay picked today from the Larderdark parcel. As growers, no matter how aspirational, you typically need to let go of the dream of ‘perfection’ (unless you want to go mad), but this year it’s something pretty crazy. Tiny
One for the cultivation nerds. This year we’ve managed to implement a new system of cultivation that allowed us to avoid any mechanisation between the vines. Firstly, and at the right moment, we banked soil along the vine row (buttage) as we al
Veraison is approaching. This is the first year that we’ve seen a reasonable crop, after tiny yields over the previous five seasons. We’ve even taken the difficult decision to crop thin where necessary, in order to have a yield per vine t
WE’RE HIRING (AGAIN)! With the season well underway, we’re looking to add another passionate, full time vigneron or vineyard worker to our team. The role is vineyard based, but there will also be some participation in the cellar thro
Always a special time of year as the frost season finishes up (we're grateful for only minimal damage), shoot thinning gets done, and the structure of our vines come to the fore. It’s now that the vines really reveal their pruning history, wher
These oak trees on the edge of the vineyard received a 'Shigo inspired' prune last year (in some cases a year later than we would have liked) and its been fascinating (for we pruning nerds) to observe the way the vascular cambium has grown new tissue
We couldn’t have picked a more beautiful day to start shoot thinning yesterday. After an early bud burst followed by a long, cool period of very slow growth, the vines have really kicked off in the last few days. Stunning growth, and a feeling
The milder weather this week is a relief after last week’s battles against the frost. There were two really frosty nights (including a solid -2C) and another couple that were right in the edge, keeping us busy and sleep deprived. On a positive
Suave mare magno! No tractor has ever touched this vineyard soil. 80cm wide rows. 50cm between vines. 25 thousand vines per hectare. No synthetic chemicals, ever. All work by hand. Also very rocky (so hard to hoe!) even if it's not so visible now as
A few images from this year's pruning that illustrate our work over the last couple of years, converting more of our cane pruned Pinot Noir to gobelet/spur type structures, and moving our Chardonnay to longer canes. Why move away from canes with Pino