hello,

i have had my wine tasting with the Rotarian's! 25 people turned up! They were not interested in walking and looking at the vineyard, only in drinking the wine!
The loved it: Especially our Bodiam Harvest 2009, which is only bottled about 8 weeks now and a medium dry, very fruity wine, made from Reichensteiner + Bacchus Vines.

We also tasted our dry Rose 2009, which is made from our Regent Grapes, a variety we grown in Germany, near the Black Forest. Its an early variety, hardy and a beautiful colour, like raspberries and it tastes like that too!

Then we had some Red Wine: Regent 2008, which is oak matured for 4 months in little oak barrique barrels, which the last cooper in england made up for us .

They also loved our Blackberry Liqueur which tastes out of this World!

We had some oaked organic sheep cheese from High Weald and organic seeded biscuits from Village Bakery. It goes so well together, delicious.

What I was surprised about is that the Cider Vinegar sold like hot cakes.But then there are some really good health benefits: if you take cider vinegar every morning with a little bit of warm water and honey.Look up this website to find out more: www.apple-cider-vinegar-benefits.com

After the group had gone, I had one other young couple from London, it was their first visit to this area and they went to Camber Sands, which is only about 20 minutes from here, near Rye. Lovely beach, the only sandy one for Miles and Miles.

The first time i saw it I thought I was back in Italy, great Sand Dunes and miles and miles of Sand! And the salty Sea air, unbelievable.

Anyway, they had been to camber sands, to Pontins, which is a holiday camp, not terribly good i am afraid.Its alright, but only very basic.
There was some kind of exhibition and they found out that we were close by.
They had never tasted English wines before and loved Red wine.
The red Regent 2008 they adored, even though its much too cold out there in our Shop.

You have to imagine basic and honest: old Barn, we used to make the wine in there and the old Wine Press, 1918 is still in there. A lovely wooden, round wine press, looks like an old Apple Press.

Right , thats it for now.