Bristol skipper's city wine mission
A Bristol skipper has jumped on board an ambitious new idea, which mixes French wine with the only surviving wooden schooner of its kind.
Rob Salvidge was at the helm of a new partnership between Frederic Albert, a wine importer, and the wonderfully crafted tall ship Kathleen and May.
They recently attempted to ship over a cargo of 6,000 bottles of wine from France to Dublin and the UK - to eventually end up in Bristol - with the dream of a return to the days of windpowered transport. The Kathleen and May would have been a regular visitor to ports all along the Bristol channel about 100 years ago. In those days she made her money carrying coal from and to Ireland - now, with her precious packages