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I have only done one really practical thing in my life which is when I sucked a Hama bead out of our son’s left nostril using a straw.  He was 2.  That I mention this quite often, 19 years later, is because that Hama bead is my proudest moment as a mother, a little beacon […]

We are clearing out my mother’s house … a desk full of blue Sellotape tins that now hold bent paper clips and desiccated rubber bands.  There are photographs of people we can’t identify, ration books, her school certificate, unfinished rolls of tapestry, incomplete sets of playing cards, discoloured bits of tissue paper.  That’s just the […]

We adapted to the Spanish hours pretty easily – lunch at 3 and dinner at 10 – until last night when it all seemed to catch up with us and we bought queso and jamon in a supermarket before retreating to our hotel room to watch Netflix. We have covered 1000 miles in 5 days […]

“A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit.  Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree.  But let him wait, and the pear at length falls into his lap.”  Except Abraham Lincoln didn’t live where we do.    We have […]

Join us for a festive evening of wine and wreath-making at our state-of-the-art, working winery. A perfect workshop to do with friends or family in the build up to Christmas. TICKETS – Stem & Green x The Grange

Every Wednesday afternoon in December (and on the mornings of Saturday 21st December & Monday 23rd December 10am – 1pm), we will be swinging wide the winery doors to cater for your festive wine needs.

After last year’s rip-roaring success, we are going again on the ‘Makers’ Sale of Work’. There will be a fabulous array of makers on show, each laden with beautiful things to sell. We will be welcoming our marvellous makers at The Grange Winery on Thursday 28th November between 9am-3pm. Entry is free and we will […]

A great article from Laura Hadland written for Vineyard Magazine where she caught up with our very own Harry Pickering.   For those approaching the subject for the first time, there can be a bewildering array to choose from. Materials might include stainless steel, concrete, oak, plastic or even clay. Each comes with its own […]

We get a lot of people on our tours saying “I can’t drink/hate rosé/PINK…” and this speaks to us of some terrible past trauma – over-fruity, ultra-sweet glasses of what looks and tastes like warm, fizzy and dilute Ribena, consumed in an airless tent on a boiling hot day – and, therefore, our hearts go […]

This year, in America, two broods of cicadas have emerged together for the first time since 1803: Brood 19 which appears every 13 years and Brood 13 which pops up every 17 years.  When they appear in the same place at the same time, such as Illinois, the noise was so loud that locals called […]