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Pinot Meunier – the Beyoncé of English vineyards
Once a bit player, Pinot Meunier is increasingly taking a starring role in English wines. Above, a Pinot Meunier vine at Langham in Dorset. For Adrian and Galia Pike at...
Henry Jeffreys
Thursday 8 January 2026
• 2 min read
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A tribute to Peter Hall (1943–2025)
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Saturday 4 October 2025
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Before the recent AGM of the Royal Household Wine Committee at Buckingham Palace, the penultimate before my two three-year terms...
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A year has now passed since my first vineyard dispatch on 14 Aug 2008 [three weeks before our dramatic site...
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‘It would be endless to mention how many good judges of wine were deceived by my wine, and thought it...
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It has been six weeks since my last visit to Gusbourne Estate, so I wondered how different it would be...
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I spent my day in the Gusbourne vineyard this week performing what essentially amounts to an Enhanced Interrogation Technique for...
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The worst job I ever had was on a municipal landfill near Bedford. It was literally rubbish. What had once...
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I was back amidst the vines this week after an enforced four week hiatus. The enforcement was entirely beyond my...
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As the bright winter sun rose over Appledore this week, a sheen of hoarfrost was slowly unveiled, twinkling across the...
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My day in the vineyard this week felt like a grey-scale rendered version of reality. A heavy slate sky had...
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Few sights can be more classically bucolic, surely, than a handful of shotgun cartridges kept for safekeeping in a case...
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Three months have now passed since I started as a vineyard worker at Gusbourne Estate. During those months I have...
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The weeks after harvest plod on like a protracted hangover. There is a deadened sense of pace at Gusbourne Estate...
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Growing grapes is often compared to raising a family. You nurture your offspring from infancy with tenderness and compassion. You...
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The Pinot Noir fruit in one crate weighs between 15 and 20 kilograms. The trusty tractor with a train of...
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