1st Place – A – Alan Thompson
2nd place – D – David Lloyd
3rd Place – C – Ian Stronge
Well done to our runners up – 4th place – (B) John Ingles de Nobel & 5th place – E – Valerie Johnson
A big thank you to everyone who voted Alan Thompson’s (picture A) stunning image of the vineyard [...]
Many thanks to everyone who took the time to vote. The winning entry will be announced in the Dorking Ad. on Thursday!
DENBIES HARVEST PHOTO COMPETITION – YOU DECIDE!!
It has been another tough decision this year with some fantastic images and the three judges, Jeannette Simpson, Chris White and local photographer, Andy Newbold have this year decided to let the final say be yours!
From over 80 entries the final 5 have been chosen but the impossible task [...]
The first Harvest competition was launched last year and the response was overwhelming. The vineyard colours really capture the imagination and the standard of entries was superb. Andy Newbold, local Leatherhead photographer www.andynewboldphotography.com , will be judging the competition. This year, due to the success of last year, we are also extending the exhibition, which [...]
Picking continues until tomorrow (Thursday) and then the 2010 harvest will come to an end. This has been an incredibly exciting year, the yields have been higher than originally predicted and with the combination of exceptionally high sugar and low acid levels, we can confirm that this will be an outstanding vintage.
Good piece today on the [...]
So, as the vineyard team are busy harvesting what could potentially be one of the finest vintages of the decade so far! Reports of English wine are as far reaching as the USA, as written by Becky Sue Epstein.
http://palatepress.com/2009/09/english-sparkling-wine-report/
We are now in the second week of harvest, after a wet interruption on Monday and Tuesday the remainer of the week has remained fair with exceptionally sunny weather yesterday. Picking of the Reichensteiner commenced this morning with approx. 26 tons in total, representing 25% more than the anticipated volume. Early concerns due to diluted [...]
Picking of the schonburger is scheduled to commence later on today. The weather is set to brighten towards the latter part of the week which will be most welcome (almost forgotten what this wet stuff was like!).
For those of you that missed it, link to report published in the Times yesterday, outlining the latest vineyard [...]
It is looking very likely from the initial feedback from the first few days of harvest that 2009 is very likely to be a vintage year, possibly comparable to that of 2003. This is really exciting news, this year has been very temperate in climate with no extremes.
Managing to catch up with our Winemaker, Marcus [...]
After a period of long sunny warm weather, harvest will be starting today with the earlier ripening grape varieties. Ortega and schonburger will be harvested this week, with low acid levels and high sugar content. We will be giving regular updates on the progress of the harvest over the next few weeks. For those of [...]