Vineyards and wineries in Dyfed

Farm vineyards in the west of Wales.

At the Welsh Wine Awards in November 2025, three of the sparkling titles went to West Wales. Llaethliw, near Aberaeron on the Ceredigion coast, was named Champion Wine of Wales and took Best Overall Sparkling Wine and Best Sparkling White, and Jabajak, in Carmarthenshire, won Best Sparkling Rosé.

Growing vines in Wales is not easy — frost, variable seasons and disease pressure are the challenges its growers face — and several vineyards here began as a change of use on a farm. Richard and Siw Evans planted Llaethliw in 2009 while looking for ways to diversify their farm, with an eye on what climate change might make possible. Jabajak’s vines went in in 2007 on a former droving farm, where cattle bound for Carmarthen market were shod; at Hebron, beneath the Preseli Hills, vines, willow and rewilding have replaced the dairy herd.

Solaris, which some Welsh growers think could become the country’s signature white grape, grows at Velfrey in Pembrokeshire, at Spring Hollow in the Teifi Valley, on sandy soil over slate and shale, and at Hebron, which bottled its 2023 Solaris with nothing added, sulphur included.

Hebron, Jabajak and Velfrey are near Whitland; Sticle and Spring Hollow are inland, near Pencader and Llandysul; Llaethliw sits on the coastal plain at the foot of the Cambrian Mountains.