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  • Day 2 Toilet Extension

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  • Day 1 Toilet Extension

    We need to build an exterior toilet to enable us to have guests to the vineyard. Planning permission passed so “Action Stations.”Vehicles arrive. Work starts on time. Only taken out three rounds of tea this am (low for builders).   Excess soil used to fill in hollows in the vineyard.

  • TV cameras at the vineyard

    We have been worried about the delayed ripening of all the grape bunches. The vines are bearing their biggest crop ever and Liz had spent more of her precious pension lump sum on two 650 Litre stainless steel wine tanks in anticipation of a bumper harvest. BBC Radio Leicester have done a short story on…

  • Our wines in Syston

    Vikram, from Metro Wines in Syston, has collected a box of all four of our Rothley Wines. They will soon be on the shelf in his highly regarded shop.

  • Tucking Down

    We are busy, assisted by some willing volunteers, tucking the rampant vine spurs dwn behind the trellis wires. We then trim the stragglers with a lithium ion hedge cutter on a pole. This allows the sunlight in, and enables the anti-fungicide and nutrient sprays to get to all the vine leaves.