Hosted by Rural Antics & Hanwell Wine Estate
The Art of Growing Grapes for Wine
Saturday 23rd February 2019 |10am to 1pm
If you’re a wine lover and want to try your hand at growing grapes for wine making, this workshop could be the perfect way to start. Join us for a step-by-step introduction to grape growing for wine making.
Presented by vineyard owner Helenka Brown, this workshop will cover vine selection, good site choice, planting, early years vine care and a wine tasting of single varietal wines to help you choose what type of wine you’d like to make.
Outline of the morning:
10.00am – Welcome with refreshments and meet tutor Helenka Brown
Getting started: where and when to plant
Early years vine care, practical examples
The end result: grape selection and wine tasting
Personal planning and wrap up
1.00pm Departure
Refreshments will be provided throughout the morning. We suggest you bring outdoor boots and warm clothes, so we can go out into the vineyard for some practical examples. Perfect for complete novices and is a great introduction to how to growing grapes to make your own wine.
The venue will be our fantastic new Rural Antics barn space, which opened in early 2018 – with lovely countryside views, it’s a delightful location perfect for this grape growing workshop.
To ensure the quality of your personal experience, group size will be limited to 8.
For more information about this event or other Rural Antics workshops, contact Hanwell Wine Estate, events@ruralantics.co.uk or 01949 81393
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About Helenka
Second generation of vineyard owners, Helenka was brought up at her parents vineyard in Nottinghamshire. Her parents, Tony and Veronica Skuriat, owners of the international award-winning Eglantine Vineyard, inspired her to embark on her own journey.
Training in Wines of Great Britain ‘WineSkills’ and WSET, her experience and knowledge grew when she set up her own vineyard in Hickling Pastures in 2012 with her husband Will Brown. Helenka is an exceptional woman balancing a job, family and growing grapes to produce English Sparkling Wine!
With the first harvest completed in October 2015, the grapes once picked were taken to Eglantine Vineyard to be made into wine and bottled by her father. As each year passes the vines are flourishing and becoming more and more fruitful and the first bottles of their English Sparking wine is set to be released early 2018.
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