DEBBIE Attrill started making wine just over 25 years ago when her uncle gave her a small fermentation bin and a very tatty, very old beginner’s guide to wine-making book.

Since then her interest in wine making has gone from strength to strength.

Based on the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire border in Longhope in the Forest of Dean, Debbie now makes a huge variety of wines.

She and her husband, and chief wine taster, Adrian now grow their own fruit, flowers and vegetables on the farm to produce a wide selection of country wines as VQ Country Wines.

Everything grown on the farm is handpicked and unsprayed, so there are no pesticides involved in the growing process.

Nature provides the best quality produce when left naturally with a well thought-out management programme benefitting the ecology.

Varieties include such unusual tipples as Pear Bramble Tip Marrow, Golden Plum Dandelion and Rosehip Summer Sun.

Debbie sells her wines through several local retailers, at shows and Farmers’ Markets, including the Ross-on-Wye Farmers’ Market on the first Friday of the month.