Polgoon Vineyard, Penzance, Cornwall - 10th October, 2015

Having spent a couple of lovely days visiting the beach and seeing quite a bit of, and being in awe of, the industrial history of Cornwall, we had told our friends we would like to see another vineyard if we had time and so on the way to Mousehole, we stopped off at Polgoon Vineyard. It is literally just alongside the main road running out of Penzance - although we didn't know that until we'd had a little search around!

Polgoon started its vine planting in 2006, again another family run business.

In addition to the vines and winery, they also produce their own ciders and fruit juices and in the shop, which is open all year, they offer a great selection of locally produced foods too - the dried seaweed selections are great! Although they only have tours March-October and so we couldn't have a tour today, we could sample their wares. And they have a red! (Their "lampshades" are also very clever, made from bottles)

It wasn't completely to our friend, Hikmet's, taste but we thought it was the best so far (not that we are far into the tastings!) with hints of tannins which we like. So we now have another red to add to our collection..

This red is a mix of the Red Rondo and Pinot Noir grapes and we liked it. We also bought a bottle of their rosé as they were winners of Best Rosé category in 2006.

The harvesting was in full swing and the grapes were being "tread" as we watched...quite exciting, and the grapes were very sweet.

Se we left Cornwall later that day as we sped off to meet our new granddaughter (who is very beautiful I might add), with more British wines - maybe the tours will be next year but in the meantime much more planning to be done to get round our Brtish vineyards!