Comments on: Bolton Castle – The Vineyard http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/ Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:36:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14654 CherryPie Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:28:42 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14654 I don't imagine it would be that cheap, but you never know ;-) I shall have to check it out. It is near to that church I mentioned that I didn't quite manage to walk to a couple of weeks ago. I don’t imagine it would be that cheap, but you never know ;-)

I shall have to check it out. It is near to that church I mentioned that I didn’t quite manage to walk to a couple of weeks ago.

]]> By: ivan http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14650 ivan Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:11:53 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14650 Now that is a vineyard. I hope you get the local wine at €3 a bedon (5 litre reusable container) the same as we do. Now that is a vineyard. I hope you get the local wine at €3 a bedon (5 litre reusable container) the same as we do.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14643 CherryPie Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:03:27 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14643 I love the way the light shines through the leaves which seem to be a particular kind of green. I love the way the light shines through the leaves which seem to be a particular kind of green.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14642 CherryPie Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:28:03 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14642 Yes it is in Wensleydale and there is still a cafe/restaurant as you enter the castle. It serves very nice food. I would have thought it was a little bit windy on that side of the castle for a vineyard, but I am sure they know what they are doing. Yes it is in Wensleydale and there is still a cafe/restaurant as you enter the castle. It serves very nice food.

I would have thought it was a little bit windy on that side of the castle for a vineyard, but I am sure they know what they are doing.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14641 CherryPie Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:27:15 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14641 I can imagine you sampling the finished product ;-) I can imagine you sampling the finished product ;-)

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14640 CherryPie Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:26:42 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14640 I think they have just added it as another garden feature, I expect they will use the wine in their restaurant. Perhaps this one that is fairly local to me is more to you liking ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photos/g_travels/3518440659/ I think they have just added it as another garden feature, I expect they will use the wine in their restaurant.

Perhaps this one that is fairly local to me is more to you liking ;-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/g_travels/3518440659/

]]> By: Marcie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14638 Marcie Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:24:55 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14638 There's always something so simplistically beautiful about vineyards..about seeing the grapes ripening on the vine. Lovely! There’s always something so simplistically beautiful about vineyards..about seeing the grapes ripening on the vine. Lovely!

]]> By: Claire http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14636 Claire Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:03:13 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14636 Is this Bolton Castle in Wensleydale? If so it was a restaurant when I was in the area many moons ago, I don't recall a vineyard it was a struggling part ruin castle as I recall. I rather think a vineyard so far north is ambitious - but good luck to them. Is this Bolton Castle in Wensleydale? If so it was a restaurant when I was in the area many moons ago, I don’t recall a vineyard it was a struggling part ruin castle as I recall. I rather think a vineyard so far north is ambitious – but good luck to them.

]]> By: jameshigham http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14635 jameshigham Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:29:30 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14635 Looks a bit Cadfael to me. I can imagine myself in that vineyard years ago. Looks a bit Cadfael to me. I can imagine myself in that vineyard years ago.

]]> By: ivan http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/13/bolton-castle-the-vineyard/comment-page-1/#comment-14634 ivan Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:17:51 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=6785#comment-14634 Looks rather pathetic to be a vineyard compared to those I've become used to over my years here in the south of France - more like the backyard ones I see here ;) but still not too bad for that far north. I don't mean that in any nasty way but I have English friends that now have 10 hectares of vines that would be horrified to see that. One of their fields was like that 15 years ago, now it has rows about 1.5 metres apart with the souche about a metre apart. Their grapes go to the local cave and much of the wine ends up in Tesco in the UK. They produce approximately 3000 litre per hectare of extremely good red and 1500 litre of white. You could say I've been spoiled over the years. Looks rather pathetic to be a vineyard compared to those I’ve become used to over my years here in the south of France – more like the backyard ones I see here ;) but still not too bad for that far north.

I don’t mean that in any nasty way but I have English friends that now have 10 hectares of vines that would be horrified to see that. One of their fields was like that 15 years ago, now it has rows about 1.5 metres apart with the souche about a metre apart. Their grapes go to the local cave and much of the wine ends up in Tesco in the UK. They produce approximately 3000 litre per hectare of extremely good red and 1500 litre of white.

You could say I’ve been spoiled over the years.

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