There’s a kind of hush that makes you feel you should be whispering. Except that it is not really that quiet at Pandama. Perhaps stillness is a better word, because all around you can hear birdsong.

If Warren Douglas gets his way Guyana could be exporting a range of high-quality, fruit-based table wines to the rest of the Caribbean in less than a year. Warren’s Pandama brand of wines has already ...