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Thank you for your interest. This blog will depict the establishment of our vineyard “Wye Chase” which began in June 2025.

We have owned this land for about 20 years and used it to establish a small holding, including growing christmas trees, fruit trees, raising pigs, rearing hens in order both to sell eggs via a local egg round and to sell rare breed fertilised eggs, rearing turkeys and geese for Christmas.

The fields all face almost directly south with a slope of approximately 10 to 15 degrees. It is surrounded by trees which offers protection from the wind but they are not too close to block any light. Soil tests revealed that the soil was very slightly acidic, free draining (due to the limestone rock abundant in this area) and all the necessary nutrients were available in abundance. We are incredibly lucky as all of these characteristics are perfect for the establishment of a vineyard.

The photograph below shows what may look to be a “blank sheet” ready for work to commence but actually a lot of work had already been put in to get to this stage. This central field had been allowed to grow uncontrolled for about 10 years and was therefore completely covered by brambles. These were cleared and the land was then ploughed and power harrowed. We then planted slow growing fescue grass varieties with a good percentage of clover in order to naturally capture Nitrogen so that we do not need to add any synthetic fertilisers