Clive Vickers of Halfpenny Green Wine Estate

Clive Vickers of Halfpenny Green Wine Estate discusses the success and future prospects of the Wombourne business

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00:00So I'm Clive Vickers, owner of Hapley Green Wine Estate.

00:03We've been producing wine and been open to the public for almost 40 years now.

00:07We are producing a quarter of a million bottles of our own wine every year

00:11and doing contract winemaking for vineyards across 28 counties of England

00:15and Wales, taking our total production to this day

00:18almost a million bottles a year. To facilitate all the new

00:23requirements for production levels we've put in new press,

00:26a new de-stalking machine, new grape handling elevators, a new filtration

00:31plant, another batch of stainless steel wine

00:34fermenters and uplifted our staff levels at the

00:37same time. It puts us in in the top sort of few

00:40wineries or of production in in the UK and it's

00:44still the fastest area of growth in agriculture

00:47planting grapes and making wine so the future looks like there could be

00:51more expansion if we want to go that down that road.

00:54On site we run with 70 staff, we've got a big

00:58200 seats of restaurants and shop and deli with our own butchery in it. We've

01:02got three course fishing lakes open to the public, we're open 362 days

01:07of the year. We've got a craft village with 16 units and a zoo

01:11as well so there's never a dull day here.