Toasting the Move From Fail to Fizz ; Food Editor Becky Sheaves Hears How One Cornish Food Editor Becky Sheaves Hears How One Cornishfamily has Triumphed Over Adversity Family has Triumphed Over Adversity

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IF YOU found the rainy summers of 2007 and 2008 somewhat depressing, spare a thought for wine-makers Kim and John Coulson of Penzance. After investing their life savings in planting a vineyard, they saw not one but two seasons go by with not a grape in sight. Torrential rain wreaked havoc just when their carefully-nurtured vines were supposed to be setting fruit.

"We didn't have a harvest at all for two years. It was heartbreaking," says Kim, 41. It was all the more frustrating for the couple as their first year's wine-making in 2006 had won the Waitrose Trophy for the best still rose wine.

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Toasting the Move From Fail to Fizz ; Food Editor Becky Sheaves Hears How One Cornish Food Editor Becky Sheaves Hears How One Cornishfamily has Triumphed Over Adversity Family has Triumphed Over Adversity

"We were so excited to win such a prestigious award, then we just sat there in the summer of 2007 watching everything going horribly wrong." says Kim. "The next year, the same thing happened and we were looking financial disaster in the face."

The Coulsons ha...

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