{"id":9504,"date":"2020-11-17T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendywutours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9504"},"modified":"2020-11-19T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:34:29","slug":"spotlight-on-monsoon-valley-vineyard-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendywutours.co.uk\/blog\/thailand\/spotlight-on-monsoon-valley-vineyard-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight On: Monsoon Valley Vineyard, Thailand!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When daydreaming about a vineyard tour, it\u2019s unlikely you\u2019d imagine yourself in Southeast Asia. Yet for the past few years, a select number of innovative winemakers have been working hard to secure Thailand<\/a> a spot on the vintner’s map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Located around 30 miles from the beach town of Hua Hin, Monsoon Valley Vineyard was first founded in 2001 by Chalerm Yoovidhya, a businessman who had spent time working for winemakers in Europe and who believed he could successfully apply his expertise in Asia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though he was initially met with disbelief, as of 2020, Monsoon Valley has won over 300 awards and become a key producer in \u2018New Latitude\u2019 wines – a phrase used to describe wines grown outside the conventional latitudes of 30 and 50 degrees. This vineyard even features in the third episode of the brand-new Series 3 of The Wine Show on Prime Video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tropical Gulf of Thailand might not be a traditionalist\u2019s idea of an ideal wine climate, but this hundred-acre vineyard has a number of features that Yoovidhya identified as possible grape-growing terroir. The loamy sand-and-slate soil is enriched by millions of years\u2019 worth of tiny shells and aquatic fossils, lending freshness and minerality to each glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n