They might not have been able to find their dream location in Tuscany but a North Yorkshire family has found they don’t need a vineyard in Italy to grow grapes that make cracking wines. Eight years on from planting their first vines the Townsends are growing a significant reputation at their Dunesforde vineyard in Upper Dunsforth.
Peter Townsend is head of wine and says that his brother was the inspiration. “James studied Italian at university and having spent a lot of time in Tuscany found Castello di Potentino vineyard where he’d help out. James encouraged us to go out as a family. We stayed in a gorgeous castle drinking wine, eating olives and freshly made pasta. It was a romantic lifestyle that’s easy to fall in love with and we did. We looked into setting up something over there.
“We weren’t really able to get our name out as we would have wanted and there are still a lot of people, even nearby, that have absolutely no idea we exist. Peter, his parents and the rest of the team that now operates Dunesforde were undaunted and are clearly purveyors not just of wine but also of a glass being always half full rather than half empty, as Peter says.
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