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3 days agoChecking In | Boys Hall
Boys Hall is a restored 17th-century Jacobean manor operating as a nine-bedroom hotel and restaurant that emphasizes historic character, local produce, and English wines.
My grandfather Peter Hall, who has died aged 82, was one of England's best known winegrowers. The writer Andrew Jefford described him as the father of the contemporary English wine scene a significant feat for anyone, let alone a man who taught himself winemaking from a paperback, and whose self-planted vineyard totalled six acres. Breaky Bottom Vineyard, near Lewes, in East Sussex, was Peter's passion. For five decades he worked meticulously on it: tending the vines by hand, labelling each bottle.