Monday, June 29, 2009

Hot weather is good news for the vineyards of Market Harborough



Today's a href="http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Signs-good-vintage-wine-year/article-1119084-detail/article.html"Leicester Mercury/a says:br /blockquotepVineyard owners are keeping their fingers crossed for a bumper crop in the county this year following forecasts of a hot summer./ppWet summers in the past two years have seen some vineyards producing only a quarter of their best crop – or less./ppNow, owners say the recent hot spells mixed with wet weather have produced excellent growing conditions./p/blockquoteIt goes on to report:br /blockquoteDavid Bates, who has run Welland Valley Vineyard, at Marston Trussell, near Market Harborough, for 20 years, said: "The portents are there for a good crop, but you never count your chickens."/blockquotea href="http://welland-vineyard.com/index.php?option=com_contentamp;task=blogcategoryamp;id=7amp;Itemid=2"Welland Valley Vineyard/a has its own website, but I can't see where the chickens come into it.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-5606872667811434200?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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