English winemakers are embracing the dry weather as they have set their sights on 2022 being one of the best years on record for English wine. Wine grapes generally thrive in relatively dry environments with just enough rain to keep their roots moist, creating a higher yield and superb wines.
Harvest Fine Foods, an independent family-run business, are proud to work with some of the finest local growers and producers, from small specialists to award winning farms and market gardeners. They stock a whole range of fresh and ambient products from Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight.
Harvest Fine Foods are playing catch up visiting local suppliers due to the past couple of years of restrictions. They have embarked on a mission to get out there in the field and continue building relationships with their local producers. This time around Julie Widdall, Harvest Fine Foods went to visit Danebury Wines Vineyard in Stockbridge along with the drone (click here to view) and shot some spectacular footage of the vineyard looking amazing.
Danebury is situated in the hills of Hampshire just above Stockbridge, a delightful 18th century county town, famous for the River Test with its excellent trout fishing, and also for its historical racecourse.
Danebury Vineyards is a privately owned estate located near Stockbridge in the heart of Hampshire, on the paddocks of what was a famous nineteenth-century racehorse training yard. The vineyards cover seven acres (2.8ha) of sheltered, south-facing fields on chalk and flint-stone soil making great conditions for the vines.
Their first vines were planted in 1988 and today they produce their flagship vintage brut sparkling wine ‘Cossack’, two varietal still white wines Madeleine Angevine and Schönburger, and the Danebury Reserve, a blend of all their grape varieties. The family has chosen to focus on limited production, which is reflected in the quality of the wine.
Harvest is proud to stock the full range of Danebury wines encompassing our company values to support local producers and the community.
Over the coming months Harvest aim to visit many more of their local suppliers and farms across the region.