Above the village of Selimiye in the Bozburun Peninsular there is a plateau with a newly planted vineyard.  It's a hot sheltered bowl in the plateau.  It's very interesting to develop a vineyard in this very hot location.  The caretaker told me they have wasps, hornets and boars.  Same problems the world over.  Irrigation is a must. 

Summer of 2018 was magical.  We did not have frost in April or May.  After bud burst, we had a brilliant sunny summer.  We had no mildew and as a result we managed to achieve five tonnes of grapes compared to one tonne in 2017.  This was an amazing result.  The Much Hadham Art Society enjoyed their day painting in the Vineyard. 

In early July I visited Samos with a Turkish group.  We visited the village of Vourlaki.  In the 1920's when the Greeks were thrown out of Turkey, a group stayed together and came to Samos and built Vourlaki.  The village is beautiful.  We stopped to look at the vineyards.  The vines are low Goblet style because of the wind.  An old Greek lady I met told me that her grandfather told her that the French came and took cuttings from their vines because they had a problem in France.  Working it back this could have happened in the 1850's.  Lovely thing about vineyards... everybody has a story.