It’s still stormy when we wake up. We get dressed and step outside to see our surroundings for the first time in the daylight. It is lovely here; there is a wonky treehouse with obligatory rickety ladder drifting in the bough of a walnut tree, and next to this an enormous trampoline covered in rusty leaves […]

Franz is a wine-maker.  In fact, he is one the most interesting and well-known young wine-makers in the world, because of his passion, philosophy and personality.  Franz, together with his wife Petra and his parents, run Weninger, a group of vineyards in Austria and Hungary that are tended to biodynamically.  The art of biodynamic farming […]

Two weeks before leaving for Europe, The Mother-in-Law’s House was resplendent with family and friends visiting from near and far to say goodbye. We welcomed a new house guest – Rudolph Herzog, the celebrated German filmmaker and author, who needed somewhere to stay whilst editing a new film he’s making for the BBC – and […]