by Emma Clunie | Feb 23, 2017 | Event, Uncategorised
We’re excited to announce our first Polgoon event of the the year, a Cornish food and drinks extravaganza with our good friend Tim Maddams – of River Cottage and Sunday Brunch fame! Join us at the vineyard over the first May Bank Holiday weekend –...
by Emma Clunie | Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorised, Vineyard news
Easter is approaching and as excited as we are at the thought of chocolate eggs, we’re more excited about the Polgoon Vineyard Tours and Tastings starting on the 14th April. Emma has done a short one minute video giving you a little snippet of our tours and how...
by Emma Clunie | Jan 30, 2017 | Vineyard news
Last week I, ‘Emma’ went to an event in Truro hosted by As One Talks at The Old Bakery. The room of 20 people listened to two speakers, Elly Owen, Head Sommelier at Fifteen and Ernie Capbert, Co-Founder of Finisterre and Who Buys Your Stuff. They both shared a handful...
by Emma Clunie | Dec 16, 2016 | Awards
2016 has been a tremendous year for awards; amazingly for us I don’t think one of our products hasn’t achieved one! Below are our newest achievements including more medals from the International Wine Challenge and this year we were finalists alongside Southwestern...
by Emma Clunie | Dec 9, 2016 | Christmas
We all like something a little bit special at Christmas time, a treat that we can enjoy with family and friends. Our range of wines are definitely something a bit special and we have put together a short video on the best way to enjoy them. Just to recap because of...
by Emma Clunie | Nov 11, 2016 | Wine
Prepare, dress up & enjoy it the Polgoon way It’s that time of year where the only answer to the dark nights is to wrap up warm and have a glass of mulled wine to warm the cockles. We have prepared our Polgoon Mulled Wine so it’s all ready to go. Watch a short...
by Emma Clunie | Oct 5, 2016 | Vineyard news
Celebrate good times with award winning Polgoon Vineyard & Miracle Theatre! Polgoon Vineyard and Orchard has announced that is working with Miracle Theatre in the run up to this festive season. This December, Miracle Theatre take up a special residency at Princess...
by Emma Clunie | Aug 2, 2016 | Local business
On the 18th July Penzance prepared for an historic day when we were visited by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall. Two of sites in the town have recently undergone major regeneration, The Jubilee Pool and St Johns Hall. The famous art deco lido was severely damage...
by Emma Clunie | Aug 1, 2016 | Cornwall food and drink, events
We thought that we’d put all the exciting events, activities and fun things to do in Penzance and surrounding areas in one place for you. We are blessed that we have so much going on and we seem to be very good at celebrating down here just about anything we can think...
by Emma Clunie | Jul 5, 2016 | Vineyard news
A newly opened kitchen at Polgoon Vineyard & Orchard. Currently open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12pm – 3pm You can enjoy a selection of local produce as well as our lovely Polgoon wines, ciders and soft drinks. Choose from local crab sandwich perhaps...
by Emma Clunie | May 12, 2016 | Awards
Polgoon wines are hitting the world stage with awards from The International Wine Challenge The IWC is accepted as the worlds finest and most meticulously judged wine competition. It judges every wine blind and awards wine for their faithfulness, style, region and...
by Emma Clunie | Apr 28, 2016 | Local business
Spring has sprung and our wonderful little town of Penzance has had a great start to the year hitting the headlines. To kick start Penzance was voted Cornwall’s new gourmet capital by The Independent. The paper complimented our many restaurants in the town, our range...
by Emma Clunie | Feb 22, 2016 | Event, Visit Cornwall
It’s almost our favourite time of year again where we get to show lovely Polgoon visitors round the vineyard and taste lots of delicious products. If you are looking for something to do in Cornwall this summer then we have the perfect afternoon for you. The first tour...
by Emma Clunie | Jan 15, 2016 | Vineyard news
Pruning is one of the biggest jobs of the year, it’s an activity that is continued all year round but the main pruning and preparation is early winter. We have started pruning as usual in the first week of January, around 13,000 vines. In total it normally takes us 3...
by Emma Clunie | Nov 20, 2015 | Event, Vineyard news
We will be opening for late night shopping in the shop and deli starting the first week in December. The shop will be filled with the delicious smells of mulled wine and open until 8pm on the 3rd, 10th and 17th for mince pies, shopping and tastings. Ladydown Christmas...
by Emma Clunie | Jun 16, 2015 | New Juice range
We would like to introduce you to our newly branded juice range. We have given all our little juices some new threads and we have added a member to the family. A Polgoon Lemonade, made with fresh pressed Sicilian lemon juice it makes a delicious lightly sparkling...
by Emma Clunie | May 11, 2015 | 2014 vintage
A glimpse of what's to come. It’s what we’ve been anticipating all year and in a couple of weeks’ time we will all be able to drink our new 2014 vintage all together. Not only is this a new vintage release but Polgoon has had a brand new makeover. This along with...
by Emma Clunie | Mar 19, 2015 | winemakers tours & tastings
Easter each year marks not just chocolate eggs galore on the shelves in the Polgoon deli but the start of the Winemakers Tours. Tours are taken by either John my husband the wine and cider maker here or Ben my son. Ben has been away in South Africa working on a game...
by Emma Clunie | Mar 10, 2015 | Drink of the Week
As recommended by Fiona Beckett who is an award-winning food and drink journalist, author and web publisher with 20 years of experience of writing for the UK's top newspapers including the Guardian, following her recent visit to Polgoon Vineyard which you can...
by Emma Clunie | Jan 28, 2015 | events
In response to last year’s damaging floods and with the help of four of its favourite celebrities, Cornish brand Seasalt is launching a striking limited edition collection of bags by Dame Judi Dench, Alex Polizzi, Savannah Miller and Monty Halls, with proceeds from...
