Are “financial viability” four letter words?
For the last four years I have been in search of an English vineyard. You may remember the ad? – “Wanted – the perfect house with the perfect vineyard” We’ve come close but we haven’t found it – yet. Seyval One of the first things I did when I set off on my quest was to ask Geoff Bond to send me copies of all the back-numbers of the Grape Press he’d still got in stock. He did, and they took me back several years (I’m still looking for more if anyone has them). I found them good reading and learnt a lot from them and all the usual text books. I’ve learnt even more from going to look at vineyards and talking to owners, including going to quite a few which have been on the market. I’ve also discovered that quite a few owners whose vineyards aren’t on the market would put them on the market if they felt they’d get a decent price. Finally, I’ve learned quite a bit from my own mini-vineyard here in Godiva’s city. But slowly I have realised there is a subject which seems never to feature in t
