Blog | Welcombe Hills Vineyard | Stratford upon Avon

May 26, 20192 min read

Back with a bang for English Wine Week!

After a 4 year break we are delighted to be relaunching Welcombe Hills Vineyard with a range of wines from the past and present and our...

Aug 12, 20181 min read

First signs of harvest

There are many key moments in the vineyard year but none for me so poignant as when the grapes start to ripen and go through veraison....

Aug 8, 20182 min read

My family and other animals

Having acquired the vineyard, we appear to have also inherited most of Farthing Wood in our back garden. First, a horde of crows stand...

Aug 1, 20181 min read

A Kings Retreat

On the 3rd September 1651, Charles 11, in a bid to regain the lost throne of the Stuarts led his army to defeat at the Battle of...

Apr 17, 20181 min read

Hey Nonino – Bud Burst

"It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o’er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the...

Mar 2, 20181 min read

Beast from the East

After the Beast from the East had given us such a spectacular late winter the first, and most crucial, job of the year swung underway....