Recent content by Mattstrugnell

Jaga Jazzist, Norway. If you like prog you might like this

The border goes around the edge of the vineyard. I live in the west though ;)

I've been the vineyard manager there for 22 years now. As for visiting, well anytime if the weather is good, restaurant, tours, self guided vineyard tour. (Although occasionally we have to close that if we're using machinery in the vineyard.) The restaurant in summer though is stunning. Worth...

Nice! be good to hear what you think when you open them

I'm at Ridgeview, Ditchling Common.

it's very rewarding and at times frustrating and difficult, like growing any crop really. I got into it by mistake (bringing this thread back to Riesling) I had a casual job on a Riesling vineyard in Clare Valley, fell in love with it, that was 26 years ago

I am, right here in Sussex 😉

Yep, I think it just took a couple of brave people to move away from (mostly) German varieties and plant classic varieties for sparkling and it went very well. When I started in viticulture 25 years ago there was about 20 hectares of Chardonnay in England; it's just shy of 3000 ha now.

Sussex, not yet. One grower I know of tried it and grubbed it up. Maybe one day, after all they said that about Chardonnay in England and now it's our most widely grown variety.

I was in Niagara in 2022 at the International Cool Climate Wine Symposium. Was surprised how the Niagara Peninsula region is such a fascinating grape growing region, so many styles, the most well known winery there probably Inniskillin, (icewine.) nova Scotia was interesting too, some great...

A whisky at Piries in Horsham around 1989, might've been a double, can't remember.

I was trying to see if there was any footage of it. What a crazy away day that was

This was absolute class. George Parris v the Gas

Munday, 2 nd leg League cup v Leicester.

Anthrax , Hammersmith Odeon , 1987. I dearly miss the annual Cardiacs November gigs at the Astoria; they were very special