Ben's Adventures in Wine Making

For years we have been saying that our freezer is too small for all the excess fruit that I pick, and that we must investigate getting a sma...

Since Lockdown started, I have been working from home. Whilst I thought that I would hate this, it is something that has definite advantages...

Weather-wise, June has been a terrible month. The last June that I remember being this wet and cold was the year we got married - 1998. It h...

A meal of Lebanese food require a bottle of fig wine. There is something about fig that suggests the Middle East - in look, in colour, in ta...

It is St David's Day, and Radio 3 has mostly been playing things with Bryn Terfel singing. I know this because I have been spending ...

Eight days ago I opened my first bottle of blackcurrant and red gooseberry wine. It was really rather lovely - full of sharp, fruity flavou...

It has been a busy Sunday. Technically Claire and I are still on holiday, having returned from a fabulous week in Gloucestershire only ye...

Julia has been telling me that her gooseberries are ready for picking for some time. But the first evening I have been free was Friday, 24th...

I began making elderflower wine on 5th June, and that is a good two weeks earlier than previous years. Our hottest ever April and the driest...

I have spent most of today avoiding the Royal Wedding. Though I'm not a Republican, there is only a certain amount of fawning I can stan...