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A private estate in Hampshire has launched a range of rural, cultural and business pursuits for people to enjoy within its grounds.

MORE than 50 wineries from across Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Wiltshire submitted wines for the competition.

ROBERT HARDMAN: As many of the biggest names in the French wine industry now readily acknowledge, the really exciting new frontier of fizz is not in France but in South East England.

MORE vineyards in the Winchester area have been battling frost to protect the young shoots of this year’s crop. Last week the Chronicle reported how the Grange Estate near Itchen Stoke had alerted a team of volunteers to go out in the early hours to light hundreds of bougies, French for candles, to keep the ground temperature above freezing. The Raimes vineyard, with two fields at Harnham Hill and Lamborough Lane, near Cheriton, has been forced to take the same measures last Thursday night. These beautiful images were captured by local photographer Simon Newman. In the top photo the c...

The Grange appoints first in-house winemaker 22nd January, 2021 by Lucy Shaw The Grange, a 19 th century Greek Revival mansion in Hampshire, has appointed former Gusbourne vintner Harry Pickering as its first in-house winemaker. The Grange is currently building a winery on its grounds Pickering, who takes over from contract winemaker Emma Rice of Hattingley, has worked alongside Gusbourne’s chief winemaker, Charlie Holland, since 2015. Prior to working for the Kent producer, he clocked up wine...