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On the 1st and 23rd August 2020 Little Oak Vineyard Hosted their vine lease members annual wine party. This is an event where our vine lease members are able to try our new vintage before we share it with the general public. This year we were tasting our 2019 Siegerrebe! I am pleased to say […]
Little Oak Vineyard is pleased to announce that it is now a member of Cotswold Taste, a member-owned food and drink cooperative. Gemma attended the Cotswolds and Three Counties hospitality networking evening in January 2020. It was a great turnout I was able to catch up with Astley Vineyard and Woodchester Valley. I listened to […]
Rotten wooden support posts have become quite an issue, replacement posts have been found to rot in as little as three years.Post rot would seem to be quite a problem for anyone who uses wooden posts to support vineyard trellises. This problem is no doubt due to the EU ban on the principle chemical mixture […]
Spraying is a difficult problem in a vineyard. The chemicals need to be applied at exactly the right dose and to cover as much of the vine and grapes as possible (without wasting chemicals by spraying other things such as the grass). This was relatively easy with only 400 vines, even if it did take […]
My apologies for the lack of updates since March, this year has been very busy. A late (but relatively mild) frost proved the success of the frost prevention system, It was a pleasing sight to see that the system had activated early one morning (at present the system only covers the original vines), The protected […]
The Ford 1220 has proven itself to be very reliable tractor. the only significant problem over several years of use has been end float in the steering axle. Murley Ford (Located in Warwick) were able to supply all the parts and repairs were easily done.
It’s an exciting time of year, much work has been going on in the vineyard, during the last three months a lot of last years growth as been pruned in readiness for the new growth of 2014. Some vines still need pruning but that’s happening over the next few days. Pruning is a tough task, […]
With many lessons learnt and the vineyard having grown to its current size of 1700 vines it was hoped that 2013 would be a great year, with the vineyard producing not only its Siegerrebe variety, but also the start of its first bottles of a sparkling wine. Due to international law it can not be […]