White Castle and Sugar Loaf
Saturday 1st June 2019
Fit in a couple more Monmouthshire vineyard visits today - White Castle in the morning, and then Sugar Loaf over lunch. Back to Vera and Robin's house for the remainder of the afternoon and dinner.
Monmouthshire May/June 2019
John's Pictures

08:42:58
Me doing my ironing with a view of the Skirrid in the morning.

08:58:06
Chie taking in the view from the bedroom window.

09:00:39
Outside power points. These are great.

09:05:08
Erika in her pyjamas on the rocking chair on the veranda.

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09:34:19
Breakfast.

10:18:13
Lovely poppies etc in the garden.

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A bee on the lavender.

10:35:43
Erika watching telly.

11:05:58
Robin came to pick us up and we quickly popped in to visit White Castle vineyard.

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Their still Pinot Noir / Pinot Noir Precoce wines were very good.

11:18:44
The old barn where they old events at White Castle - a friend of Robin's had helped to restore this.

11:19:46
The vineyard at White Castle.

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The barn from the outside - a lovely building.

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Close up on the vines.

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Erika and the vineyard dog.

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The gate.

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12:18:37
After picking up Vera we set off again for another vineyard - this time Sugar Loaf, where we also had lunch.

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Good old Seyval Blanc.

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Me out amongst the vines.

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12:30:40
Our lunch - a cheese platter and accompanying wine tasting platter.

12:30:55
Our table.

12:30:59
Our table again with me crouching down to give a sense of the view.

12:34:04
The list of wines.

12:58:46
Their sparkling wine.

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On the way back into Abergavenny Robin dropped us off and we had a look round the shops.

15:16:33
I was keen to actually try one of the sparkling wines I had been collecting while we were in Monmouthshire so I had bought two bottles of the White Castle.

16:37:48
Vera and Erika watching telly.

21:05:10
Later on back at the cottage after Erika went to bed I tried to get a nice lineup photo of all the Monmouthshire sparkling wines I had collected.

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