First wine tasting after a break is always a bit touch & go, but nice group and it went fine

Brilliant night representing Worcestershire on behalf of Visit Britain and Visit Worcestershire on Monday. These were American luxury FIT travel agents searching for authentic places in Britain to visit. Lygon Arms was a great venue. Marvellous!

Been quiet on here recently, but I’m still at it! Tasting here tonight 👌🏻 (Lygon Arms)

The Finns make Rudolph taste GOOD!

Sh*t month. Send pity 😔

Video editing sure is a pain. A few hours spent in this. Sigh

Cheeky feature in Forbes this morning 😎 (Only 2 of the 19 photos I sent were of me, I swear!) www.forbes.com/sites/lewisn...

Chatting wine to local business leaders this morning (Hereford & Worcester Chamber) Nice to bring the conversation back to business for once

Lunar crepuscular rays…apparently! Quite a rare sighting.

The effort of putting this all together 🙄 Christmas cases now online

Sometimes you start the day not k owing what to do. And some days your late harvest wine ferment decides to triple in speed overnight. Cue emergency action to stop the ferment 😮‍💨

Hey look, a pocket of high GDD just where we are. Funny that 😉

Lovely moment when you put the press to bed for another year!

Botrytised Kerner doing the rounds online (20k views, 600 likes). Hopefully the resulting wine will be just as popular! Departing from our usual Siegerrebe, to make something even sweeter and richer than our Brigid (Kabinett Kerner)

Halloween was significantly cuter and more fun this year. Adorable

'English Wine Will Change Your Life', our first Wine Fair is here! 16 producers. 70 wines. 1 day only. 🥂🔥🙌✅🍇😎 On 22.11.25 Bristol becomes the centre of English wine - fizz, white, rosé, red & orange. You should join us!!! Tickets: iewa.uk/shop #TheIEWA #EnglishWine #BristolEvents

14.4% abv 8.2g/L TA PH 3.1 Astounding.

Will be glad to get the last harvest in tomorrow Late harvest Kerner, destined for a sweet wine.

Finally bottling the 2024 sparkling. 4.5 bar Kerner QA23

Shop was “lunch is 2 hours late” kind of busy. Good fun. Good conversations.

Shop was “lunch is 2 hours late” kind of busy. Good fun. Good conversations.

Opening everything up today to celebrate Taste Worcestershire. Look at all my lovely, colourful boys & girls 🥹

Flambéd some home grown & home made poached quince in chase marmalade vodka because I’m all kinds of fancy. Served on a hot cross bun 💅🏻

Taking some time off feels weird after 8 weeks of non stop adrenaline. In the meantime, our last bunches of Kerner are developing some welcome botrytis so that we can attempt a late harvest wine

Kerner hanging on for longer it seems!

Still pushing on. Pressing the Pinot today

Why yes, we are playing kids Texas BBQ. Why do you ask? 😅

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Getting some skin-on-skin with my babies. Kerner getting pressed tomorrow (picked Thursday morning)

Straight after harvest (💀) I headed to Faun Wine to launch Taste Worcestershire with a room of influencers. We sped through 5 wines paired with delicious canapés. Fabulous evening! Always nice to see your wine being enjoyed in a beautiful setting

Kerner harvest. Best we’ve ever had I think. 13%+ abv Aiming for 40 ish hours on skins. Should make an amazing wine 🤞🏻

Part of me loves a well done novelty beer. Another part of me hates them sometimes (cough, vault city)(mostly) This is a banger. Nicely balanced

When you uncontrollably whisper “You’re on f*cking fire mate 😋” You know it’s good

Final tour of the year! 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 620 wine lovers 🍾 558 bottles opened. 🥂 3720 glasses enjoyed (and washed!) 🍞 31 loaves of Matleena’s bread. 🌱 5.2kg of Chris’s pesto. 🐟🧀Countless kilos of salmon & cheese. ❤️ We collectively spent around 300 hours hosting you One of the best bits of the job

Late harvest Kerner approaching. Hoping to hit 14% abv. Reminder: this is basically Riesling grown in Worcestershire 😯

13% sauvignon blanc 🤷🏼‍♂️😦

£700k pre tax loss says a lot about the state of big English wine atm

Sauvignon Blanc day. After a bit of a rough patch with the rain, this vintage is really picking up again. Making me think about our last pick of Kerner…

Kerner press today after a night macerating. To coin a phrase used by Tommy of Langham - I believe this counts as Brown Juice Club 😅

One of our pickers recently became a sommelier at a Michelin star, so I enjoyed a boozy lunch with her after harvest 😅

Kerner harvest today 16 days earlier than ever in our history!

Of the many things achieved today, pressing Pinot was one of them. 2 harvests this week, and we’re buying some more Pinot from just up the road. Nearly finished (harvest) 😮‍💨

Soppy harvest post over on insta. In short, a memorable, great, crazy, lovely vintage so far. (If VERY busy for me) www.instagram.com/p/DO0gmTmjUO...

After a long couple of weeks of harvesting & winemaking, a tour wasn’t high on my list of things to do. But always a pleasure to speak to wine lovers. Freya drinking beautifully. 17.5g/L feeling spot on

Harvest day Last of the Bacchus, and our modest amount of Pinot noir. Looking great

I get *so triggered* by people who dont organise their (Dropbox) files neatly. Same with clear email chains to follow. Grr

Little write up of wine gb tasting over on insta In short: Sparklings consistent, if uninspiring. Some great. Most repetitive. Stills were harmed by recent vintages. Some shone. Most have been/could have been better. Top wines by biddenden (surprisingly), Langham & Hugo.

This isn’t exactly how I’d like to start my birthday. Anyway, see you soon London

Early & casual birthday celebrations thanks to a particularly crazy weekend. A standard bottle of LR, but with some good age to it. A poor man’s vintage champagne. 2018 Torbreck (for the third time). Solid steak wine. And one of “my” presents. We play so much that it’s worth it. Wine gb tomorrow

9:26 Press on Gotta do what ya gotta do. I’m absolutely exhausted