He has bought a lovely south facing sloping field just north of Marlow near the Rebellion brewery (where Tim and Mark will sell you Laithwaites wines alongside their peerless Ales).
Henry's field is at around the 50 metres level and it's solid chalk under a very thin soil, so should be perfect for producing a really good fizz. However it's a bit windy so in go the Alder trees. Three hundred of them. So far! A lot of digging, filling and watering. So the call goes out to family! Mum, Dad.....
The thousands of baby vines arrive next month... I've arranged to be away that week!
But out there on the hillside with views to Marlow and Cookham Dean, the warm late afternoon sun, the larks singing high above, I feel I, like French Alfie the dog could madly run, scamper and jump for joy ... were I only Alfie's age.
As I'm not I'll just sit and soak it all in. God, it's good to be out of the office.
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