Camel Valley

When ex-RAF pilot Bob Lindo and his wife Annie planted their first eight thousand vines in 1989, they never dreamed of the phenomenal success they would achieve within 2 decades.   They had bought their farm in the heart of the Cornish countryside several years earlier, seeking a change from service life and the perfect place to bring up their young family, and initially farmed sheep and cattle.  Each summer they watched the grass turn brown o...

In 2006 Cornwall Tourist Board awarded Bob an award for outstanding services to tourism in Cornwall, and the vineyard won Gold for Cornish Distinctiveness three times.  This year Camel Valley has already won nine awards in the International Wine Challenge, International Wine and Spirit Competition and Decanter Awards.  2008 wine success was crowned with a Cornwall Tourism Gold Medal for ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year'.  But the Lindo fa...