Somerby Vineyards Ltd - the pride of vineyards in Lincolnshire.

 During a visit to Germany to pick up a new car we were returning home, driving along the Rhine and we stayed at a beautiful town called Rhinegarten. We stayed at a beautiful hotel and our room overlooked a vineyard. Bill, my husband said, "Where does this remind you of?" I instantly said, "Somerby." (where we live). On arriving home, we were discussing what we had seen with our neighbours Shaun and Victoria Merrick and Shaun said, "Why don’t you try and grow some in our walled garden?" So in 2006 we fenced off an acre as he has some sheep and planted 150 vines. Then when they started to grow Bill really got the bug so in 2007 he bought a large field close to our home and planted 700 vines. All of these were planted manually with help of friends. Then in 2008 we planted 2,300 these were planted by machine in a matter of about three hours. We have a variety of vines, Orion, Ortega, Phoenix, Regent, Rhondo and Solaris.