Nyetimber
Nyetimber is the estate that changed everything. Their 1992 Blanc de Blancs beat Champagne at international competition and permanently altered how th…
Sugrue South Downs
There is a wine called The Trouble with Dreams, made by an Irishman in West Sussex from chalk vineyards he has been farming since 2006, and in 2025 a …
Ridgeview Wine Estate
The family estate that first put English sparkling wine on international scoreboards. Simon Roberts produces a range of London-named cuvées from South…
Camel Valley Vineyard
England's most celebrated non-southern producer. The Cornwall Brut wins trophies that Sussex estates covet, and the Darnibole Bacchus is the finest ex…
Gusbourne
Gusbourne makes a case for being England's most serious fine wine producer. The Blanc de Blancs — aged on lees for three to five years before disgorge…
Langham Wine Estate
If you want a single event that illustrates how rapidly English wine's centre of gravity has shifted, consider what happened at the WineGB Awards in 2…
Chapel Down
England's largest and most commercially visible winery, with 1,000 acres across Kent. The visitor facilities at Tenterden are the finest in English wi…
Rathfinny Wine Estate
The most spectacular vineyard in England. Chalk terraces descend toward the English Channel with views to France on clear days, and the 600-acre estat…
Hambledon Vineyard
One of England's oldest modern vineyards, planted in 1952 on Hampshire chalk by a cricket-loving general. Today, under Champagne-trained Hervé Jestin,…
Exton Park Vineyard
Exton Park's Blanc de Blancs is the wine that wine collectors most quietly seek out. Made by Corinne Seely from 60 acres of Hampshire chalk overlookin…
Hattingley Valley
Emma Rice's Kings Cuvée is one of England's most discussed prestige wines. Hattingley Valley's chalk-hillside estate and Champagne-influenced winemaki…
Balfour Hush Heath Estate
The most romantic estate in Kentish wine. 400 acres of High Weald parkland, a winery housed in a converted oast, and a Brut Rosé that has become Londo…
Wiston Estate Winery
Wiston Estate is a name that winemakers talk about in reverent shorthand.…
Coates and Seely
Nicholas Coates and Christian Seely met at business school in Fontainebleau, and the partnership they formed was, from the beginning, a Franco-English…
Bolney Wine Estate
One of Sussex's oldest and most welcoming estates. Bolney produces a range that is broader than most English estates, including some of England's bett…
Tillingham
Tillingham sits in the flatlands of East Sussex near Rye, on a working farm that smells of woodsmoke and fermenting grape must and, if you're lucky, t…
Domaine Evremond
Domaine Evremond represents a bet placed on English terroir by one of Champagne's oldest dynasties, and it is a bet of unusual confidence.…
Lyme Bay Winery
The story of what happened to Lyme Bay Winery at the 2025 awards season requires some context.…
Denbies Wine Estate
England's largest single-site vineyard, and its undisputed wine tourism capital. Over 300,000 visitors a year come to the 265-acre North Downs estate …
Black Chalk Wine
Jacob Leadley's decision to make only vintage wines at Black Chalk is either an act of exceptional confidence in Hampshire's ability to ripen grapes t…
Digby Fine English
Trevor Clough and Jason Humphries founded Digby Fine English in 2006 with advice from Californian sparkling wine producers who had already understood,…
Simpsons Wine Estate
Charles and Ruth Simpson took a route to English winemaking that most English winemakers haven't: they went to France first.…
Flint Vineyard
Ben and Hannah Witchell planted their first vines in Norfolk's Waveney Valley in 2016, on a small holding in South Norfolk near Bungay that was, by th…
Louis Pommery England
In 2014, a decade before Taittinger and other Champagne houses began their much-publicised English projects, Vranken-Pommery quietly released a wine u…
Greyfriars Vineyard
The Hog's Back ridge in Surrey runs east to west above Guildford, a chalk escarpment that provides the county with something it is not always given cr…
Harrow and Hope
The Chiltern Hills above Marlow provide one of the most visually compelling vineyard settings in England.…
Tinwood Estate
Art Tukker converted an iceberg lettuce farm near Halnaker in West Sussex into one of England's largest single-estate vineyards, 110 acres with 110,00…
Bluebell Vineyard Estates
Every spring, the woodland surrounding Bluebell Vineyard Estates floods with colour.…
Westwell Wine Estates
The Pilgrims' Way is one of England's oldest paths, used since the Stone Age by travellers moving along the chalk ridge of the North Downs toward Cant…
Bride Valley Vineyard
In 1976, a wine merchant called Steven Spurrier organised a tasting in Paris at which French judges, in blind conditions, rated California's finest Ch…
Three Choirs Vineyard
Three Choirs Vineyard near Newent in Gloucestershire holds a distinction that no other English winery can claim: it has been producing wine commercial…
Henners Vineyard
Lawrence Warr spent his career in Formula 1, where the pursuit of marginal gains, the obsessive attention to precision, and the understanding that sma…