'Last of the Staffordshire Wine': frosty morning at the vineyard...

Mar 31, 2016, 08:16 AM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, March 2016)

On the programme this week we've been talking about English wine - its growth in popularity and how you'll soon be as likely to see it on the shelves as bottles imported from Chile, Australia, South Africa and France.

The UK wine industry reported a bumper year last year and now the government wants to see a tenfold increase in exports within the next 4 years.

Believe it or not we have our own vineyard right here in North Staffordshire...in Fairoak in Eccleshall to be exact... BUT, the government help has come too late for them.

BBC Radio Stoke's Emma Thomas went to meet the man who runs it....