Out and about in Northamptonshire

Bill Hulme with a bottle of Champs D'amour

 It's good to get out and about and we had a wonderful day at the The Weston & Lois Weedon Horticultural Society's Annual Produce and Flower Show on Saturday.  The show was really well organised with lovely people and a great range of local products.  It was good to see just local produce on sale, and I have to admit that we bought rather a large piece of local Oxford Blue to eat when we got home.

It's really beautifully dark pink this year and extra fruity! 

Luckily the weather held out and the organisers had a handy trampoline to distract the children whilst their parents and grandparents tried local cider, cheese, cakes, beer and wine and looked around at the brilliant produce in the tent.  It was good to meet food writter Matthew Fort and William Sitwell. 

A very enjoyable day all round. 

We're not taking any notice of the clouds!

Summer 2013 update

It's looking it's going to be a bumper crop and with this weather it may well yet be our best ever vintage.  We won't tempt the Gods though  .. just in case, but the roses are looking beautiful against the blue skies.

We won five awards at the Mercian Vineyards Association awards

Flora and Bill Hulme with the winning wines

MERCIAN VINEYARDS ASSOCIATION WINE COMPETITION 2010

Following our success a the Mercian vineyard association wine competition we have decided to start a blog.  This way we can keep our customers up to day with the latest developments in our now award winning wines.

We took our grandchildren to the awards and came home tickled pink ..  in the above competion held at Wroxeter Vineyard in Shropshire on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd August 2010 we won.. not one award but 5 !

Both the wines which were awarded Regional Wine Status and faced stiff competition from all the vineyards in the region stretching from Wales to the east coast. Nearly 150 wines were entered into the competition which is regarded as the top completion for wines in this region (Part of the United Kingdom Vineyards association)
Our prizes were awarded for the following categories:

• THE BEST MERCIAN SPARKLING WINE
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• THE BEST VINTAGE WINE
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• THE BEST WINE IN THE EAST MIDLANDS
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• SILVER MEDAL AWARDED TO “CHAMPS DE AMOUR ROSE’ “
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• BRONZE MEDAL AWARDED TO “CHAMPS DE AMOUR

If you would like more information about our wines please call us .. we operate directly from the vineyard  -   contact details above. 

The wines can be tasted at the VINEYARD or at the NORTHAMPTONSHIRE FOOD SHOW HOLDENBY which is held on Aug 29-30th form 1100 to 1700hrs