Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The long awaited Rothly Rosé wine has been labelled and is on sale at North’s delicatessen by the steam line railway station in Rothley. This time we used a local firm, Flexpress of Birstall, to design the label and the boar and coronet were drawn especially. RoyalRichard-Flexpress-Proof-2

Award winning off licence “The Offie” is selling the Rothley wine Solaris. The Offie, 142 Clarendon Park Road, Leicester. LE2 3AE Tel: 0116 2701553 Visit this Aladdin’s cave of artisan and speciality beverages to see Solaris, which is especially nice with turkey!

Last box of this small production run was taken to David North’s shop on 18th November. Sorry for any disappointment. The good news is that we have 100 litres from this year’s harvest fermenting away quietly in the winery.

Our helper elves arrived again to help with bottling the rose, a blended wine of Siegerrebe for elegance and aroma, Solaris for body, and Rondo for a rich fruit flavour. An efficient bottling line was soon established, and 175 bottles of Royal Richard are awaiting labelling following laboratory analysis and label approval from the FSA…

We took two harvests in September, with much merriment when the grapes were trodden in the traditional manner. The harvest on 18th October was a colder day and the Orion and Regent departed to Halfpenny Green Vineyard to be made into a pink sparkling wine called “Spirit of Freedom” in honour of the abolition of…