Sark's first harvest

The tiny carless island of Sark in the English Channel, about eight miles from Guernsey and 20 miles from the Normandy coast, has produced its first commercial wine-grape harvest.

Sark Estate Management, who also run hotels and restaurants on the island, have invested around a million pounds so far and clearly have tourism as well as wine in mind, although they do seem to be taking the vineyards seriously: they engaged Bordeaux winemaker Dr Alain Raynaud (below, pensive with pipe) to do a soil analysis in 2010 and have planted around 100,000 vines (2% of the total land area) in...