Alison:  And very briefly, when will we see some grapes here on the vine?

Sam:  well, they’re just going through flower set now and you can see there is some set there on some of the embryo bunches so, yes, they’ll start growing on from now.

Alison:  Sam, thank you ever so much.  Well, the glass is here and, fingers crossed, the glass will be half full very soon.  We need about a hundred days of sunshine to ripen those grapes so we’ve got quite a few more needed down here in West Sussex to make sure there’s a good harvest and a good few bottles of wine later on in the year.  Back to you (in the studio).

9th July 2007 - BBC Breakfast News Interview (part 3)