Yorkshire Branch Event - Leventhorpe Vineyard
Start/Finish date: 11th September 2010 10:30
Member Price: £
Non-Member Price: £
Event type:
Event Summary
Visit to Leventhorpe Vineyard near Leeds
Event description
Yorkshire Branch - Autumn Visit to Leventhorpe Vineyard
Start/Finish date: 11 September 2010 10:00 (for 10:30) – 12:30
Location: LEVENTHORPE VINEYARD Bullerthorpe Lane Woodlesford Leeds, West Yorkshire
LS26 8AF
Member Price: £5
Non-Member Price: £5
Event type: Day Out
Available Places: 30
Event Summary Autumn outing of vineyard walk, winery visit and tasting.
Event description
Leventhorpe Vineyard, part of the City of Leeds, is England’s most northerly commercial vineyard. The vineyard revives the tradition of wine making in Yorkshire established by the Cistercian monks of Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds and the Benedictines of York.
George Bowden and his wife Janet re-introduced commercial winegrowing to Yorkshire by establishing the 5 acre vineyard in 1985. It employs traditional methods together with modern equipment and techniques to produce a range of wines – white, red and sparking (made in the traditional method). The main wines are Seyval and Madeleine Angevine, both early ripening white varieties, and Triomphe, a red grape. Other white varieties are available in smaller quantities. wines are given a long fermentation to preserve nose and delicacy.
The wines are awarded Yorkshire Regional Wines status. The vineyard is recommended in Rick Stein’s Guide and Leventhorpe Madeleine Angevine was included as one of the Wines of the Week in The Daily Telegraph in July 2006. It was also recommended by Jancis Robinson in the Financial Times in May 2007. Oz Clarke has recommended Leventhorpe’s wines over the years and the vineyard was included in his new series ‘Oz and James Drink to Britain’. Oz Clarke’s also included it in his ‘Pick of the Best’ six British vineyards for the May 2009 issue of BBC Countryfile magazine.
The visit will be guided by the owners, will be a vineyard tour, a winery talk and free tasting.
No arrangements are being made for lunch, however there are two recommended pubs nearby that do food.
Directions:
By Road Exit Junction 46 from the M1. Follow signs to Leeds. At first roundabout – Sainsbury Retail Park, turn left. At mini roundabout take 2nd exit A642 Wakefield on to Bullerthorpe Lane. Road crosses motorway. Go passed Gamblethorpe Farm on left hand side. Then take 1st turning right (vineyard on corner) – signposted Newsam Green. Take immediate left turn by Lodge House on to Newsam Green Road. Winery further down road on left hand side just before the cottages.
By Rail. To Woodlesford Station. From the map about a 1 km walk, north west along Aberford Road and then Bullerthorpe Lane. The journey from Leeds takes only 8 minutes, with departures at 09.00 and 09.32.
There are also services from Sheffield via Barnsley and Wakefield (08:21 arrives 09:40) and Knottingley (09:16 arrives 09:41).
http://www.leedsliveitloveit.com/visitors/places-to-go~page/leventhorpe-vineyard - for a link to the map
Entry is by special ticket obtained in advance and those wishing to participate are asked to complete the attached booking form and send their application, with remittance, to Paul Bartlett, 26 St. Paul’s Square, Holgate, York, YO24 4BD. Joining Instructions and tickets will be sent to applicants. Please include an A5 flat SAE.
Booking
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I enclose a cheque for £5 made payable to “SoB Yorkshire Branch”.
Further information regarding this event may be requested from Paul Bartlett on Bartlett.paul@tiscali.co.uk
or Nigel Mussett (Branch Secretary): mussett@dsl.pipex.com, telephone: 01729 825948.
Contact
BOOKING FORM
To be received by Paul Bartlett by Friday 3 September at the latest
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