The best of Dorset in words and pictures

The grape-picking season in West Dorset

Naomi Price pays an autumn visit to Furleigh Estate

Furleigh Estate is nestled in lush Dorset countryside, protected from the elements by the surrounding hills

 

 

FROM a distance it looks like one vast Cézanne canvas. Sentinels of lime green stand shoulder to shoulder with bursts of crimson, while row upon row of vines follow the contours of the undulating landscape and the overhead nets intensify an already azure sky. You could be forgiven for thinking this was…

 

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