Country Diary
Oct 21, 2020
3 minutes
Richard Negus
On a south-facing slope, a few miles from where I live, grow neat rows of grape vines. The seven-acre vineyard is on the 1,200-acre Wyken estate and is one of the oldest in Suffolk, planted 33 years ago.
Grape vines do best on poor soil and this part of the estate is a sandy loam over chalk. Some 12,000 bottles of wine are produced annually — two white wines, one
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