On a recent Sunday in mid October, accompanied by a small group of friends, I brought in a first tiny, non-commercial harvest from The...

A third of my vineyard is planted with Melon de Bourgogne. You're probably asking what on earth is Melon de Bourgogne? You might even...

I've known for three years that this moment would come. Two weeks ago I drove into the field, parked up the car and set out amongst the...

I popped over to the vineyard yesterday for a few hours. You know, to “check on it”. It’s a regular ritual. Once arrived I made myself...

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, as Mr Kipling famously remarked from the nobly rotten slopes above the Garonne on one of his...

Back a few posts ago I recounted one or two of the punchier encounters I'd had with vineyard owners during those tours of discovery that...

I thought I’d write something a bit different for the latest post. So far on this blog you’ve been mainly regaled with light hearted...

I'm going to start this post by talking a bit about our vineyard's terroir. If you've read the rest of the site you'll note that it's a...

Owning a vineyard is, I've discovered, a popular talking point for colleagues and friends. "How are the vines" is a novel icebreaker I...

Last time I posted we'd just planted around 5,300 little bare rooted vines in our two blocks. I got sunburned that day despite the cool...

On Wednesday morning we had a couple of fields in Kent. By mid afternoon we had an actual vineyard. We have, finally, planted. Planting a...

It should be a quiet time at Little B now. Summer is over, the final cover crop before next year’s planting is in, but I was there for...

In this country, with a couple of notable exceptions, growing grapes is not something you inherit from a long family line of vignerons....

Not sure if any of you have set up your own business recently, but one of the first things you must do is create your own online...