We started planting our vineyard on a 3 acre site in 2005 on land which was once used as part of an RAF base and village cricket ground. The gently sloping site is at the edge of the village of Bearley in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside just four miles from Stratford-upon-Avon.

Bearley has links with the Shakespeare family through Mary Arden, Shakespeare's mother, whose house is in the neighbouring village of Wilmcote.

Whilst creating the vineyard, we hand-planted over 1500 native hedging plants as a windbreak and sowed grass between the rows to create the ideal sustainable microclimate for our vines.