Greyfriars Vineyard Opens Chalk Wine Cave

Greyfriars’ new chalk wine cave on the North Downs in Surrey has been opened. The 18-month excavation and build project created a wine cave that has been carved out of the side of the Hog’s Back near Guildford. The resulting 3,500 square foot cellar will store up to 250,000 bottles of Greyfriars’ award-winning wines. A…

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English Sparkling Wines you may not have heard of

English sparkling wines have started making serious waves in the sparkling wine industry. You may have heard of Nyetimber, Ridgeview, Chapel Down, Camel Valley, Hush Heath, Gusbourne, Coates & Seely, Balfour Estate, Hambledon and others that have become fairly well-known. With English sparkling wine’s rising popularity and high quality, even the French want a piece of the action!…

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Greyfriars Successful Harvest

Autumn has arrived and the vineyards at Greyfriars are awash with a golden glow. Harvest was another huge success, due to the rather mild but inclement weather, harvest was very late this year with picking starting at the end of October. This year the training system for the vines was changed from a double cane to a…

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The Harvest of Dreams – View from behind the Snips

I cannot now recall how long before the 2014 harvest it was that the word “dream” started to be used, but it was certainly weeks, if not months, before the first grape was picked. After the poor harvest of 2011, the abject disaster of 2012 and a reasonable crop in 2013, excitement built throughout 2014. Vines…

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