Breaky Bottom – Peter’s Note – November 2024

This month we’re launching Breaky Bottom’s special Kir Royale, and celebrating my receiving an exceptional award, ‘Diplome d’Honneur’ through the Wine Guild of the UK. 50th Anniversary Kir Royale In 1999 I decided to dedicate a small area of my vineyard to grow blackcurrants for producing a Crème de Cassis which I used as a…

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Breaky Bottom – Peter’s Notes, June 2024

As I start on Peter’s Notes for June, already rather late in the month because of the pressing work required in the vineyard for the 2024 crop, I am still looking to think back to the early days soon after planting. The photographs I choose will be rather higgledy-piggledy, but they are ‘of-the-time’ – my…

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Breaky Bottom – Peter’s Notes April 2024 – 50th Anniversary!

Special announcement – 2024 is Breaky Bottom’s 50th Anniversary! My livestock farm before planting vines I planted the vineyard back in April 1974, so this month I am looking back to the very start – the ploughing of the proposed site, the initial planting of vines and the posting and trellising of the individual rows.…

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Breaky Bottom – Peter’s Notes March 2024

A Spring morning Work continues in the vineyard and the ewes are about to start lambing; yet forgive me, but for some reason, loudly, I can hear the speaker of the House of Commons shouting “Order, order…..!” So instead, I have chosen to focus on the delights of spring and the animals and plants which…

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