in napa, which is to have a really lovely cafe, shop, restaurant on site. we ve seen tourists, local community come and visit us and drink great coffee as well as great wine down on site with us. i also think there s a little bit that, sort of post covid, consumers wanting to drink, eat locally and feel part of a local community. this year, we re still optimistic. we ve avoided a lot of the hurdles for producing grapes this year, so we ve avoided the frost, we ve avoided. we ve had great fruit set. the vines look very healthy. but now we need sun that s the bottom line. the uk s wine industry has only been able to bear fruit as global warming has increased temperatures. but along with that come extreme events and even less predictability leaving winemakers anxiously watching the weather.
and grown, with sussex home to the most vineyards. the grapes may be baking in sunshine today, but the last month has told a different story. can our unpredictable weather really sustain this industry? it s really getting from spring to harvest that s the challenge. so this year s a perfect example of we had a great start to the year so great spring, we had great fruit set as you can see, we have lots of berries in the vineyard but we just haven t had the sun in the last month or so. and this is our challenge. every yea r s different, and when we think we re past one hurdle, there s something else that jumps out at us! for a crop that depends on consistently good weather, it certainly seems a gamble to grow in the uk, but for many estates, that gamble is paying off with wine tourism big business. i think we re seeing england and the uk generally sort of follow that sort of trend that we ve seen
of weather, but all the rain that s lashed the country has had a great effect on english vineyards. a dryjune followed by a wetjuly make for perfect conditions for a bumper harvest of grapes. ellie crisell reports from west sussex. the english wine industry has grown and grown, with sussex home to the most vineyards. the grapes may be baking in sunshine today, but the last month has told a different story. can our unpredictable weather really sustain this industry? it s really getting from spring to harvest that s the challenge. so this year s a perfect example of we had a great start to the year so great spring, we had great fruit set as you can see, we have lots of berries in the vineyard but we just haven t had the sun in the last month or so.
local community come and visit us and drink great coffee as well as great wine down on site with us. i also think there s a little bit that, sort of post covid, consumers wanting to drink, eat locally and feel part of a local community. this year, we re still optimistic. we ve avoided a lot of the hurdles for producing grapes this year, so we ve avoided the frost, we ve avoided. we ve had great fruit set. the vines look very healthy. but now we need sun that s the bottom line. the uk s wine industry has only been able to bear fruit as global warming has increased temperatures. but along with that come extreme events and even less predictability leaving winemakers anxiously watching the weather. my my cup of tea doesn t seem so good any more. plenty more on the bbc and
the frost, we ve avoided. we ve had great fruit set. the vines look very healthy. but now we need sun that s the bottom line. the uk s wine industry has only been able to bear fruit as global warming has increased temperatures. but along with that come extreme events and even less predictability leaving winemakers anxiously watching the weather. speaking of the weather, here the weather. hello there. we had some lovely spells of sunshine through much of england and wales on sunday, a little more cloud at times through scotland and northern ireland with a few showers. and as we head through the course of sunday evening and sunday night, some clear skies with light winds through england. we ll see some low cloud, mist and fog developing through southern counties. more of a wind around parts of west wales, in towards the west of scotland, northern ireland. and, actually, that means temperatures here holding in the mid teens. cooler elsewhere with