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Mar 20, 2024 | 
vineyardmagazine.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
While Vitifruit itself was only set up by David and business partner Richard Witt around a dozen years ago, David has abeen supplying vineyard equipment for some 44 years, beginning not long after growers first recognised this country’s potential for growing grapes.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
vineyardmagazine.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
Kirkland UK, which specialises in fruit and vineyard equipment, regularly takes calls from manufacturers who want Kirkland UK to promote, sell and provide reliable after care for their products in the UK.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
vineyardmagazine.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
A new logo was just the most visible part of an overall refresh and refocus for VineWorks, established in 2006 by James Dodson while he was still studying for his BSc (Hons) in Viticulture and Oenology at Plumpton College.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
greatbritishlife.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
While the Battle of Britain was fought largely in the skies above the south-eastern corner of England, as Spitfires and Hurricanes sought to stop German raiders crossing the Channel and heading towards the capital, the men who fought it were drawn from across the country.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
greatbritishlife.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
When in 2015 Her Majesty The Queen opened a new visitor centre commemorating the bravery and sacrifice of the men who won the Battle of Britain in 1940, she met some of those who had helped defend this country against invasion. Among them was the tall, distinguished figure of Bootle-born Tom Neil, then 94 and one of the most successful airmen during the air battle that was to change the course of history.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
vineyardmagazine.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
Some things are so good that they simply demand to be shared, and that’s certainly true of the Weyborne Estate, north of Midhurst in stunning West Sussex countryside. The historic estate, which sits just below Black Down, the highest point of the South Downs and in the care of the National Trust, clings to the side of a south-facing slope that is ideal for growing sparkling wine grapes bursting with real purity.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
vineyardmagazine.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
With input costs continuing to soar, labour difficult to source and top fruit prices under pressure, efficiency and cost-saving are increasingly important when sourcing machinery for the orchard or vineyard. That theme was well in evidence at fruit and vineyard specialist N P Seymour’s two machinery demonstration days held at Amsbury farm, Hunton, near Maidstone, towards the end of July.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
vineyardmagazine.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
With the quantity of grapes being grown in the Crouch Valley “increasing hour by hour” in the words of one grower, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to locate a contract winery in the area. The good news for growers in this particularly grape-friendly part of the Essex countryside, to the south east of Chelmsford, is that the ‘someone’ in this case is Itasca’s Malcolm Walker, whose track record in the industry is second to none.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
vineyardmagazine.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
The aqueous foam, which is environmentally harmless and expected to be much cheaper to use than current alternatives, has been developed over the past six or seven years by George Klat, himself a grower, and is expected to revolutionise the industry.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
vineyardmagazine.co.uk | Malcolm Triggs
