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00:00 Silverhand has been established only since last October. Prior to that the estate was put together
00:06 in 2019 and most recently we have taken on the lease of the local pub and we've opened the
00:13 Silverhand Estate Cellar Door which is the site we're now sitting in. We have the single largest
00:18 vineyard in the UK and that site is also managed organically and we have a huge focus on sustainability.
00:24 Today we have a temporary winery which is you know sort of 100 yards from where we are now
00:30 we know because of the vines we have in the ground that there's a need for us to have a larger
00:36 winery. We have an ambition to produce up to five million bottles in the future which means we need
00:40 a bigger facility. So we looked at the winery site in Cuxden in Upper Bush Valley that was
00:46 unfortunately refused. We still need that site so we're looking at that site again with some
00:51 modifications with Medway Council but equally have two or three other sites that we're considering.
00:58 The main thing for us is that we want to impact the local community as little as possible
01:02 and if we take the fruit from this site off site it will cause more transport issues than we believe
01:09 of actually processing it close to the site. The unique thing about this site is that it's got the
01:15 highest concentration of vineyard in the UK so therefore we don't want to transport up to 4,000
01:20 tons off the site.