Well, a lot better than we have! The vines are looking happy and green but the heat when we’re working amongst them has been quite intense. And the horse flies!!! This year they have been ferocious! It’s that stage in the season where we are leaf stripping to expose the bunches of grapes to sunlight and helping to keep them clean and healthy. It’s a time consuming process but it is tremendously satisfying when we see how much lovely fruit there is. Vines have strong tap roots

Nominees will be announced later in this blog! The 'H' word - Harvest 2025!!! Panic not folks - we're not there yet! As some of you may...

I'll get back to this question in a bit! So, what has been happening at Velfrey Vineyard since my last scribblings? Well rather a lot!...

Well, who would have thought that in the middle of April we'd be glad of a bit of rain! Early April was absolutely glorious and the...

Harvest is rapidly approaching and we will need your help! (details at the end of this blog) Storm Agnes is blowing a hooley outside so...

Yup - you guessed it - it's raining! In fact I started writing this long overdue blog on the first rainy day we had had for weeks, back...

Meet the latest member of the Velfrey Vineyard team! The vineyard dogs are not too impressed with him - they keep dropping the ball at...

Now then, it's raining folks. When it rains we can't work on the vines so it's an indoor day here and the latest issue of our magazine is...

Now, if you have been thinking that our silence has been due to either (a) we have been sunning ourselves and relaxing on some tropical...

... it lets out a little wine!! Sorry about that, couldn't resist. Anyway, it was great to be involved with the latest stage of the...