An interesting article, although I thought we might get a bit more about the actual viticulture. Harrow & Hope's high density, which is 50% higher than a lot of UK vineyards, is definitely his secret weapon, and results in a longer growing season, better yields (which I suspect will drop now that he's organic) and riper grapes. Danbury is pushing clay, because that's all they've got and dissing the Weald of Kent for having the wrong type of clay doesn't help their cause.
Thanks Stephen. Survey rather than essay - sadly not sure how many of my readers here are interested in deleafing strategies and types of sprayer but we did talk about them! Danbury themselves have a range of clays, I don't think they're dissing the others just encouraging a closer look. You could really see the variation with heat stressed vines there last summer.
An interesting article, although I thought we might get a bit more about the actual viticulture. Harrow & Hope's high density, which is 50% higher than a lot of UK vineyards, is definitely his secret weapon, and results in a longer growing season, better yields (which I suspect will drop now that he's organic) and riper grapes. Danbury is pushing clay, because that's all they've got and dissing the Weald of Kent for having the wrong type of clay doesn't help their cause.
Thanks Stephen. Survey rather than essay - sadly not sure how many of my readers here are interested in deleafing strategies and types of sprayer but we did talk about them! Danbury themselves have a range of clays, I don't think they're dissing the others just encouraging a closer look. You could really see the variation with heat stressed vines there last summer.