Grape vine on an allotment - what would you grow it up/over?

[PurpleParrotfish]

I’ve been taken by the idea of growing a grape vine but it will obviously need some sort of permanent structure. What do you think would be good (for someone with no DIY skills and not too expensive!)

The people on an allotment near ours built a very sturdy fence using trellis panels and grew their grapevine along that. Or you could copy the French vineyards and run stout wire between posts?

I think Monty has a tutorial on this but he plants it outside and then takes the main vine into his greenhouse.

Trellis would look nice but I’d worry about it falling over! Maybe posts are the way to go.

Remember you’re cutting most of it back every year so it’s only the leader and this year’s growth the trellis has to support

Thanks for the advice, yes, that would make it more manageable. Hoping to grow grapes that are like those tasty little black ones you get in French supermarkets!

I inherited a vine frame, two sturdy metal posts dug into the ground about 2 m
apart with 2 horizontal runs of metal wire between them at about 50 cm apart . I planted anew vine and It does need that, it rambles a lot and needs at least2 prunings per year.