It is both crisp and fruity and is excellent as an aperitif or with salads or fish. The soil is light loam over chalk, and this chalk subsoil is particularly well suited to the production of fine white wines. It provides excellent drainage, and the vines can put their roots far down into the chalk so extracting the minerals which provide character and flavour. The policy throughout the development of the vineyard has been to provide the winemaker with high quality grapes rather than go for high volume production, so the vines are trained and pruned to produce a relatively small amount of fruit but all of top quality. The harvest is delayed as long as possible, so although some grapes may be lost to birds and botrytis, the remainder have increased sugar levels and lower acidity, and as the vineyard is nearly a quarter of a mile from any road they are relatively pollution-free.
Visitors are welcome to see the vines by appointment throughout the year.
However, there are no facilities and access is only by a steep rough path. This page produced by the Hantsweb Team . Comments on Hantsweb should be sent to the Hantsweb Manager . For more information on our services please contact Hampshire County Council Information Centres . This page last updated on 23 January 2001.