'Secret' Vineyard.

Customers of Great Northern Wine have been reporting wines of a younger, fresher nature of late and owner Mark Ryan has been tight lipped about their origins, muttering vagaries about ‘cooler climates’ and a ‘more northerly terroir’. But it was a report in this week’s Gazette that got Harbinger’s nose for a story twitching.
It was reported that Mr Ryan had joined forces with farmer, Tony Chapman to attempt to grow three varieties of grape in what the Gazette described as ‘a secret location’.
When the Gazette’s reporter asked Mr Ryan about the vineyard he attempted to play the whole thing down saying “It is not anticipated our vineyard will ever produce wine”, but Harbinger has, after exhaustive investigations, discovered the ‘secret location’.
Hidden in the countryside just outside Ripon, surrounded by a high fence and patrolled with dogs, the vineyard is in full production; a vast bottling plant stands nearby disguised as a carpet warehouse and trucks thunder along the narrow country lane bound for Mr Ryan’s establishment. Get yourself down there and bag a case or two of Château Ripon before the vintage sells out.