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Ben Cowley
Auntsfield viticulturist
It is Ben’s passion to grow grapes of the highest quality, which in turn create great wines...
“Great wine is created from great fruit...”
“At Auntsfield, detailed accurate monitoring and vine manipulation allows us to focus on individual parcels of fruit which display unique expressions of the physical characteristics of the vineyard. It is my job to nurture these differences and help develop their expression through to the final wine...”
“There is nothing better at the end of a hard day’s work than sitting down and experiencing an Auntsfield wine that expresses who and what we are. A true sense of place.”
“When I am out in the area of the old vineyard, or around the cellar, I can't help but think about how David Herd has walked here before me.”
“Everywhere he trod, I now tred. Everything he experienced with weather and conditions, I now experience.”
“I do wonder though, if he faced the same problems that we face today, when it comes to conditions and elements. I often think too about how similar and yet how different it would have been back then.”
“The pruning would have been much the same, although of course where he used to get on the horse and plough, we move around in 4W motorbikes or trucks.”
“We talk about the ghost of David Herd a lot. I think he would have liked that we are continuing with what he started.”
“Let's face it, if someone is sitting around talking about me in 100 years, the way we are talking about him, I'd feel pretty good about it.”
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