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| Issue 56: Viti-Culture Event Special No. 1 15 March 2023 |
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ABOUT VITI-CULTURE THE EVENT FOR THE WINE INDUSTRY
Viti-Culture is a one day free to attend event that focuses on technical developers, innovators, supplies and services directly or indirectly involved in wine production - from soil to cellar. We are proud to provide a showcase for interested and prospective growers to come and speak to experts and find out more about any aspect of wine production.
Whether you have an already established vineyard and winery, are looking to plant or want to invest in your own production facilities, trade exhibitors offering products and services are on-hand at Viti-Culture to provide expert advice. From vineyard consultants to land agents, specialist machinery manufacturers and dealers, winery equipment suppliers, agronomists, brand and packaging specialists they can assist on every aspect of establishing and managing a vineyard, to producing, packaging and marketing the wines. Alongside all of this, there is always a full itinerary of high quality seminars throughout the day that visitors have come to expect.
Scroll down for more information and exciting new developments for the 2023 event; including our English and Welsh Wine Fair led by our Show Patron, Oz Clarke OBE and Tom Surgey!
The GVE Team, our Sponsors and Supporters look forward to welcoming you!
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Introducing our first batch of trade exhibitors: |
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More exhibitors will continue to be announced in the lead up to the event. Follow us on social media on the links below to keep up to date or look out for the next Viti-Culture eBulletin event special on 15 April 2023.
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Berkshire Labels Ltd
Berkshire Labels are a leading high quality self-adhesive label and shrink sleeve manufacturer. State of the art digital or conventional print alongside unrivalled embellishment capabilities such as multiple Hot foils, Emboss/DeBoss, Tactile Silk Screen, various varnish techniques and personalisation make us the perfect partner for UK Vineyards bottle or can decoration requirements.
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Defined Wine Ltd
Defined Wine
is a contract only winery – with no vineyards or brands of our own, everything we do is about working with the people we make wine for, hence our name. In addition to providing a full ‘crate to case’ winemaking service, we can provide any element of this including: lab services; filtration; bottling; disgorging; labelling and storage. We can transfer under pressure single bottles of sparkling into Magnums, Jeroboams and Methuselahs.
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Hampton Steel
Hampton Steel and Wire is one of the UK's premier manufacturers of steel wine trellis and perimeter fencing solutions. Hampton’s Vinelok™ vine trellis system offers strength and versatility by combining Hampton’s own patented and award winning Versalok® post and with its new Vinelok™ clip providing a system that is easy to use, move and reuse.
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Kirkland UK
We are the UK importers of specialist vineyard machinery including Antonio Carraro tractors, Orizzonti pruning & cultivating equipment, giant multipurpose wheel loaders & our own Kirkland & Orvin brands. Visit us at Viti-Culture and have a chat with our specialist team today!
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Murphy & Son
We’re dedicated to producing exceptional wines: Murphy & Son Wine provides a ‘grape to bottle’ service that helps UK wine producers turn their grapes into award-winning bottles of wine. Through supply of product, inhouse technical support and trusted partners, we ensure your brand’s quality remains consistent from the vine to bottle – and beyond.
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Netafim UK
Netafim is the global leading provider of precision water application systems for micro irrigation and frost mitigation. We can provide cost effective solutions to overcome the challenges that you can face with difficult climatic conditions such as late frosts and long dry periods at critical stages of the growth and development of the vine. We look forward to meeting you at Viti-Culture!
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QCL
The CDR WineLab measures multiple parameters in grapes, must and wine to help you with decision making and to ensure healthy fermentation, quality and consistency. Measurements available include fermentable sugars, gluconic, malic, and lactic acids, total acidity, SO2, Nitrogen and many more to give you all the information you need.
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Savills
Savills rural property experts have a depth of knowledge and breadth of contacts unrivalled in the field. Acting with discretion and precision, we help established growers, new entrants, investors and jointventure landowners to manage, value, sell or acquire property. Teamed with the wider resources and capabilities of the Savills network, we are pleased to be able to offer a comprehensive advisory service to anyone involved in UK viticulture.
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Vine Care UK
Whatever your viticultural needs we can provide them……..site assessment, machine and hand planting, trellis installation, suppliers of dedicated and experienced vineyard labour, tractor operatives and management services.
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WBC Ltd
With fantastic price points and year-round availability, start turning your bottles of wine into profit generating gifts with WBC’s collection of best selling Drinks Packaging.
Choose from the UK’s largest range of wholesale gift boxes and bottles bags in every colour, size and style spectrum you can imagine. From simple card cartons for bottles to luxury wooden wine boxes and gift boxes.
All our drinks packaging has specially designed transit outers for mail order or for sending your drinks through the courier network.
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Interested in exhibiting your own products and services for the wine industry? |
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FULL TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM - CASE STUDY |
We were delighted to supply, configure and install a full temperature control system at product and cellar level, including Speidel tanks, at award winning Sandridge Barton, the home of Sharpham Wine. You can read the full Case Study and our interview with Sandridge Barton's CEO and Head Winemaker HERE.
For more information about chilling and temperature control setups, please see our Temperature Control blog HERE.
Quantor-Kreyer's chilling / temperature control units include energy efficient design features and can include reversible chillers with heat-recovery for an ample supply of hot water for you to use where you wish. These, in addition to a site-specific thermal site calculation, will provide proportional energy-saving to help save on power consumption and reduce your carbon footprint. Our engineers install complete chilling and/or temperature control systems via bespoke ringmains for controlling product and/or air temperature.
If you are thinking of a chilling or temperature control system for your winery whether at product and/or cellar level, please call us on 01404 892 100 to discuss your requirements.
Now is also the ideal time to discuss Speidel tanks with us if you require them for harvest time.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Andy, Tom B, Chris & Tom W
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Follow Vigo Ltd on social media using the links below: |
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The English & Welsh Wine Fair at Viti-Culture 2023 |
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For 2023 we have extended the event into the late afternoon incorporating an English Wine Fair and ticketed Wine Tasting Masterclass with the Three Wine Men’s Tom Surgey and Oz Clarke OBE, also our Show Patron. This supporter, buyer and consumer English Wine tasting evening encouraging wine-lovers and students of Plumpton College to attend. As the Patron and an extremely high-profile wine expert Oz Clarke will co-host the event. He will be joined by Tom Surgey, also well-known as an expert wine presenter and lives locally in Lewes and has a good network of wine-loving followers in this area.
Oz and Tom will welcome guests to the tasting and give a brief introductory speech at the beginning of the tasting. They will then mingle among the guests introducing them to the range of wines available at stands and endeavour to visit all stands and introduce visitors to as many producers and wines as possible during the event.
We will also be supplying a shuttle minibus to Lewes town centre and station to encourage attendance from the locality and out of area visitors.
Notes for Wine Producers
We have a limited number of free stands available in the marquee to promote our producers. If you are interested in exhibiting, download the information pack for more details. These are offered on a first-come, first served basis.
Cheese and Wine Pairing Masterclass
In addition to the English and Welsh Wine Fair there will be a paid for ticketed Masterclass Wine and Cheese pairing session led by Oz and Tom. Please ensure you pre-book your tickets for this session tickets are available to book up until one week before the event; or until they are sold out. |
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Introducing the first of our vineyards who will be showcasing their wines: |
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All Angels, Enborne Vineyards
Family owned vineyards at a 17th Century farm deep in a very rural and historic part of Berkshire. Producing award winning, single vintage English Sparkling wine solely from grapes grown in the vineyards. The vineyards run north south on gentle slopes of sandy loam over gravel and flint with stunning country-side views.
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Bewl Water Vineyard
Bewl Water Vineyard produces small batch, hand crafted wines. Our Bacchus grapes are amongst the oldest in the UK having been planted in the 1970s. The colder climate in England means that these grapes retain a higher acidity, giving varietal wines of high quality, somewhat in a Sauvignon blanc-like style. Our Pinot Noir grapes planted in 2005 are Burgundy clones which thrive in our Sussex clay soil. The undulating and gently south sloping terrain of our five acre vineyard combines good drainage with optimum exposure to the Sussex sun.
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Heppington VineyardSet in the East Kent countryside, on the edge of the rolling North Downs. The geological strata of chalk, limestone and clay (peppered with flint) is identical to the champagne region. Climactic conditions now make East Kent, and the Canterbury area in particular, an optimum location for growing the champagne varieties. The vineyard is on a gentle south facing slope at the perfect height above sea level and is planted with the classic champagne varieties Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier for sparkling wine but including clones which produce outstanding still wines. 10% of the area has been planted with Pinot Gris.
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Lost in a Field
Lost in a Field is on a mission to rescue rare heritage grape varieties and to craft them into delicious, low intervention pét-nat using natural winemaking methods.
This is our Great British old vine story, seen through the technicolour prism of the German crosses planted in the last century by eccentric amateurs.
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Stanlake Park Wine Estate
Since 1979 Stanlake Park Wine Estate has developed some of the highest quality vineyards in Berkshire and uses grapes from these properties to produce a wide range of English wines including white, rosé, red and traditional method sparkling wine.
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White Castle Vineyard
White Castle Vineyard is owned by Robb & Nicola Merchant, it is situated in the beautiful rolling countryside of Monmouthshire in the village of Llanvetherine close to the towns of Abergavenny and Monmouth. The 5 acre vineyard is planted on a gentle south facing slope that is ideal for growing vines and ripening grapes for Welsh wine.White Castle Vineyard is dedicated to producing a variety of quality welsh wines using first class viticultural practices.
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Woodchurch Wine
Established in 2009, Woodchurch is a single estate vineyard in Kent set on hills looking south over the ancient Romney marsh. 10 acres of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Meunier and Bacchus vines are tended using a low intervention approach combined with meticulous attention to detail – leading to award-winning still and sparkling wines.
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Interested in showcasing your wines at the English & Welsh Wine Fair? |
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We are currently finalising the programme and timings for this year's seminars, which will also feature debates.
There will be two debates led by Plumpton College and seminars including 'Regenerative Viticulture' led by Justin Howard-Sneyd and led by Justin and a PiWi from grape to glass
focused session of 3 talks led by Professor Greg Dunn from Plumpton College Wine Division.
The full programme will be published in our next event edition on 15th April 2023!
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| Plumpton College, The UK's Centre of Excellence in Wine Education |
Plumpton Wine Centre is of course the centre of excellence for wine education in the UK and so we will welcome degree students alongside visitors from across the country. What better way to future-proof your business than by forging links now with the future of the industry!
Plumpton College will be hosting a Careers in Wine area within the exhibitor space throughout the day and prospective, future, current and past students will be invited to attend the event by both ourselves and the college, giving them opportunity to discuss their career in wine.
Plumpton College Wine Division Tours are available to book in the 'add-ons' section of the eventbrite day ticket page or by clicking HERE. These tours are very popular, so please book early to avoid disappointment. |
We are delighted to host the 2023 UK Sabrage Tournament. The first tournament was held in 2021 and was an instant success. We are incredibly proud to be the home of the only UK competition! More information coming soon! |
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