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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...
Nichola Kelsey
May 26, 20192 min read
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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....
Nichola Kelsey
Aug 12, 20181 min read
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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...
Nichola Kelsey
Aug 8, 20182 min read
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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...
Nichola Kelsey
Aug 1, 20181 min read
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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...
Nichola Kelsey
Apr 17, 20181 min read
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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....
Nichola Kelsey
Mar 2, 20181 min read
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