VYRNWY VINERIES

	Contact Robbie Rose Vyrnwy Vineyard Website: www.vyrnwyvineyard.co.uk (not yet active)			Grapes White Ortega Madeleine Angevine Seyval Blanc Solaris Red Regent Rondo Pinot Noir Dornfelder
Vyrnwy Vineyard is a rural vineyard on the borders of England and Wales, situated a stones throw from the beautiful Lake Vyrnwy which supplies water to Merseyside and Livepool. It lies on a south facing slope that falls 300 feet in half a mile to a tributary of the River Tanat in Powys. This provides advantages of a gradient safeguarding against drainage issues but also ensuring suitable breeze between the vines advantageous over flatland planting for regional conditions. The first vineyard is rural, rustic, a labour of love, hand dug, hand planted and very much cut into the hillside. Future planting will be on a larger scale with more refined standard landscaping. The vines are cordon trained and spur pruned. Vine Details The vines were first planted around 2012.Those vines chosen benefit from early ripening with interesting parentages, all have a history of producing good wines in Britain. Rondo (Zarya Severa x St Laurent) is a Russian grape with ancestors from the wilds of Manchuria and is noted for producing good crops across most of Northern Britain Ortega is (Muller Thurgau x Siegerrebe). The latter gives the grapes a slight muscat flavour while the former had some Reisling parentage and was popular in Britain in the early days of 20thC viticulture. Solaris- an unspecified cross produced in Freiburg. It produces very high sugars and has good disease resistance. Return to Welsh region