It was 43 years ago when Martin Vickers decided to plant 400 vines over 0.2ha. He was the third generation of farmers in Staffordshire, with two families tending to 485ha of arable ground, and as his son, Clive, puts it, the vineyard was just a ‘bit of fun’. Of course, you wouldn’t know it now. Halfpenny Green Wine Estate has since separated from the main farm – Clive’s cousins still farm the neighbouring 325ha – and has grown exponentially to just over 8ha of vines, as well as presses, storage tanks and bottling plants, a restaurant and gift shop, as…