In 1997, our close friend Steven suggested we look into buying a country place together and having been to the County a couple of times lured us down to look at an acquaintance's property just outside the town of Milford. When the acquaintance offered to sell us the 300 acres, including a charming yellow 1840's farm house and several outbuildings, we bought it on the spot. Intended as only a weekend getaway, within a year James and I had moved our film editing business here and had very happily become country mice. James noticed a few small vineyards dotted about and being a wine lover began to investigate. Much research, soil sampling and many consultations later, it turned out that we had patches of land astonishingly similar to the "terroir" of Burgundy. In 1999, an enthusiastic James and a slightly skeptical Steven and I planted 1200 vines, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc and Gamay. As we watched them thrive in the hot dry summer weather and delicious limestone dirt, James decided to plant a further 3,700 vines in the spring of 2000 ...