Mel B
A third of my vineyard is planted with Melon de Bourgogne. You're probably asking what on earth is Melon de Bourgogne? You might even...
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Timothy Sarson
- May 11
- 5 min
Frost
I've known for three years that this moment would come. Two weeks ago I drove into the field, parked up the car and set out amongst the...
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Timothy Sarson
- Feb 25
- 4 min
The waiting season
I popped over to the vineyard yesterday for a few hours. You know, to “check on it”. It’s a regular ritual. Once arrived I made myself...
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Timothy Sarson
- Sep 16, 2023
- 3 min
September
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, as Mr Kipling famously remarked from the nobly rotten slopes above the Garonne on one of his...
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Timothy Sarson
- Jul 15, 2023
- 4 min
Absenteeism on the Vineyard
Back a few posts ago I recounted one or two of the punchier encounters I'd had with vineyard owners during those tours of discovery that...
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Timothy Sarson
- Apr 2, 2023
- 5 min
On Pinot Meunier
I thought I’d write something a bit different for the latest post. So far on this blog you’ve been mainly regaled with light hearted...
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Timothy Sarson
- Dec 31, 2022
- 4 min
My first prune
I'm going to start this post by talking a bit about our vineyard's terroir. If you've read the rest of the site you'll note that it's a...
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Timothy Sarson
- Oct 18, 2022
- 5 min
The end of Season 1
Owning a vineyard is, I've discovered, a popular talking point for colleagues and friends. "How are the vines" is a novel icebreaker I...
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Timothy Sarson
- Jul 24, 2022
- 3 min
Heatwave!
Last time I posted we'd just planted around 5,300 little bare rooted vines in our two blocks. I got sunburned that day despite the cool...
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Timothy Sarson
- Apr 21, 2022
- 4 min
Planting
On Wednesday morning we had a couple of fields in Kent. By mid afternoon we had an actual vineyard. We have, finally, planted. Planting a...
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Timothy Sarson
- Dec 27, 2021
- 8 min
Now for the Science Bit
It should be a quiet time at Little B now. Summer is over, the final cover crop before next year’s planting is in, but I was there for...
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Timothy Sarson
- Sep 19, 2021
- 4 min
DON'T DO IT!
In this country, with a couple of notable exceptions, growing grapes is not something you inherit from a long family line of vignerons....
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Timothy Sarson
- Jun 7, 2021
- 6 min
ON PLANTING VINES AND WRITING BLOGS
Not sure if any of you have set up your own business recently, but one of the first things you must do is create your own online...
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