Our Philosophy
We aim to:
- grow the best grapes we can every year, with no herbicides, using good husbandry to minimise the need for fungicides;
- make fully dry, delicious wines, only from our own grapes, that reflect the vines, the place and the year: terroir-driven wines;
- to use minimum intervention winemaking and low levels of sulphur;
- to submit all our wines to external quality analysis;
- to use lower weight bottles to keep our carbon footprint low;
- to use high quality traditional corks to help maintain the important mixed cork oak ecology in Portugal;
- to sell mainly directly within the southwest of England to keep our "wine miles' low;
- to maintain our old vines in good health for as long as we can, keeping our traditional aromatic white wine grape varieties;
- to keep a cover of naturally regenerated sward to maintain soil health and capture carbon;
- to promote biodiversity by letting our alleys come up to seed in May and June, letting our hedges spread and keeping a naturally regenerating wild area next to the vineyard
- to stay small and make only wines that we like to drink, from vines tended mainly by our own hands.