INDEX feature For bon viveurs Grape-picking at Chapel Down
This has long been an Index local favourite: six bottles of your own wine from award-winning Chapel Down in Tenterden, via its vine-lease scheme. You can visit your vines as they grow, your wine will be made for you at Chapel Down, bottled and given a personalised label, and you’ll be invited to an annual wine tasting event held at the vineyard, hosted by a Master of Wine. Here, you’ll be able to sample your own wine, compare it to others over a top- notch meal and collect your bottles to take away. Throughout the duration of your lease you’re entitled to 10% off the full retail price of wines purchased in the shop or by telephone mail order. What will all this cost you? From £195 per annum for six bottles, £850 for 48. See
www.englishwinesgroup.com for details. Chin! Chin!
For wannabe rock stars
Fancy yourself as a Rolling Stone? Or are you more of a Lady Gaga? Enter Hospice in the Weald’s latest challenge and you could mark your milestone with a musical extravaganza on 3 October... You’ll get to join a maximum group of 25 (or you can make up your own smaller group if you wish) at Yellowfish Studios near Lewes. Here, a top-notch choir director (who may or may not refer to you as ‘darling’) and professional musicians who’ve worked with stars such as Beyoncé and the late, great Amy Winehouse, will guide you through the challenge of learning and recording a song in one day. And the price? £399 per person – £100 of which goes to Hospice in the Weald – to include lunch and, of course, your very own CD. See the fundraising section at
www.hospiceintheweald.org.uk for further details. The alternative? Put a small ad in Index asking for any other wannabe rock stars to join you in forming a scratch band. Hire one of our local village halls and put on a ‘for one night only’ gig to mark your milestone. A rapturous reception from friends, family and fans is guaranteed...
For film buffs
Hire either Kino (
www.kinodigital.co.uk) in Hawkhurst or The Stag cinema in Sevenoaks (
www.stagsevenoaks.co.uk) and show your favourite movie at a private screening. With rental prices from £375 and a seating capacity of 91, Kino makes an affordable option. The cinema will a lay on drinks for you (at an additional cost) and, food-wise, you can give your guests bags of treats to munch through as they view. Make it extra-special by asking local DVD-director Graham Hobbs at Clockwork Productions (
www.clockhouse.co.uk) to make a series of spoof cinema ads or even a mini movie featuring lovely, lovely you (it is your big day, after all) to run before the main titles role: “All right, Mr Demille, I'm ready for my close-up...”
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