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Not being one of the world’s natural travellers, I am eyeing up the impending trip to Japan with a mixture of feelings. Zam is joining a number of English vineyards, invited by the Department for International Trade, to promote English sparking wine at a trade fair in Tokyo. He gets to take an assistant. I […]

Gratifyingly, the panorama I have managed to film on my camera draws an awestruck reaction on the family whatsapp group. JEEEESUS being the general tone.  I am quite proud of this little film, especially as I find the phone button counter-intuitive and tend to find I have filmed the ground.  Actually the ground is, in […]

Not everybody loves the newly pimped landrover that our old neighbour Robert has transformed from a beaten up lightweight, short-wheelbase, Series III into an idiosyncratic mobile bar.  But Zam does. When his sister Rose asked to borrow it, freshly painted and ready to go he was delighted to share the joy.  She rang 20 minutes […]

Zam tries to round up people to take part in two photo shoots… he wants young people but not too young and older people who are not too old.  I am too old but he’s desperate.  The photographer, Tom, has been photographing the vineyard since this adventure began ten years ago and is now so […]

I am sitting under a grey sky outside a bookshop talking to a friend. “And it’s June,” I say morosely, waving in disgust at the opposite of a late Spring sky. “Is it?” There is a note of panic in her voice, a flash in her eyes I wasn’t expecting, “Well no, not quite… but […]

We are very happy to announce the arrival of Harry Pickering as our first in-house Winemaker. Harry’s appointment follows a six-month global search with over a hundred applicants from eleven countries – but he’s joining us from Gusbourne, just up the road in East Sussex. There he has worked with Charlie Holland since 2015, helping […]

With the grapes through the presses and the juices fermenting, the days are shortening and the damp and the chill starting to dominate, so it is something of a relief to be able to spend less time in the vineyard and put one’s feet up and look back on this bizarre year – there has […]

While the virus has been raging around the world (and doesn’t look like easing up any time soon) perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that it has also been a strange year in Burge’s Field Vineyard. Harsh spring frosts in late-April and, three weeks later, in mid-May really hammered the vines, reducing our expected yield for […]

The Corona virus is bringing human life to something of a standstill around the globe but the natural world is not paying any attention and in the vineyard at Burge’s Field the vines are emerging from winter dormancy. We make sure the sheep, grass mowers for the last six weeks, are moved elsewhere before bud […]