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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jane Croft

REVEALED: It s a sun trap climate crisis brings boomtime for british wine - The Real Truth

Adrian Pike, winemaker with wife Galia at their vineyard and winery near Ashford, Kent.
Winemaker Adrian Pike with his wife, Galia, in their Kent vineyard, which has never had frost. Photograph: Justin Sutcliffe

“We’ve never had frost here,” says Adrian Pike, gesturing across rows of vines just starting to show signs of tiny buds in the weak Kent spring sunshine.

Westwell vineyard is on the site of a former monastery and sits close to the Pilgrims’ Way on the North Downs, the historic route to Canterbury that runs along the top of the hill behind the vineyard.

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