Vineyards and wineries in Kent

Balfour Winery makes still and sparkling English wine at Hush Heath Estate in Kent, a Tudor estate first planted with vines in 2002.

Kent's pioneering sparkling-wine estate and one of the most iconic English wine brands, Chapel Down has helped define English sparkling for three decades.

A Kent estate in Appledore growing all its own grapes for traditional-method sparkling and still wines, with a cellar door and a vineyard trail.

Domaine Evremond is a Champagne Taittinger-backed sparkling wine estate just outside Chilham, Kent, with a walk-in terrace tasting and a hosted cellar-door tasting.

Mereworth Wines makes traditional method sparkling wine in a converted Kent hop oast, with a winery bar, kitchen and terrace open to drop-in visitors.

A Kent wine estate in the Elham Valley, making still and sparkling wine from its own vineyards, with guided tastings in a room overlooking the winery.

Squerryes is a sparkling wine estate in Westerham, with its own restaurant, tasting bar and cellar door on the same site.

Woodchurch Wine Estate is a Kent vineyard near Ashford making award-winning sparkling and still wine, with a bar, wine flights and stone-baked pizza overlooking the vines.

Barnsole is a boutique Kent vineyard opposite the Roman fort of Richborough, selling its sparkling, red and white wine directly from the winery door.

Biddenden is Kent's original vineyard, planted by the Barnes family in 1969, making white, rosé, red and sparkling wine alongside cider and juices.

A family-run vineyard above the River Stour near Canterbury, on land recorded for vine-growing more than 700 years before the present vines went in.

Meopham Valley is a family-run Kent vineyard, established in 1991, making still and sparkling wines from ten grape varieties on a valley slope.

A family vineyard around a former hop-drying oast at the foot of the North Downs in Kent, open on event days and for pre-booked private tours.

Silverhand is an organic vineyard on chalk and clay in the Kent village that shares its name, pouring wine by the glass from its cellar door most days of the week.

A family vineyard near Faversham growing Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier on old cherry orchard land, open for booked tours and tastings.

A family-run Kent estate on the edge of Romney Marsh, Warehorne makes still red, white and rosé wines — including a rare English red — with a weekend walk-in cellar door.

Yotes Court is a vineyard around a Grade I listed manor house in Kent, with a walk-in cellar door, self-guided tastings and a Chelsea-designed garden.

A Kent fruit farm and vineyard growing Albariño and Pinot Noir, open on set days for blossom walks, fruit picking and vineyard tours.

Herbert Hall is a small, organic vineyard on the edge of Marden, Kent, planted by a winemaker returning to farmland worked by his own great-grandfather.

A 20-year sheep farm near Tenterden in Kent, Oast Wood still uses sheep and heavy horses to work the vines, with wine poured in a converted cart shed.

On the North Downs in Kent, Westwell makes low-intervention wine — from traditional method to col fondo and amphora — with the cellar door doubling as a gallery of the estate's own artwork.

Woolton is a family farm near Canterbury with its own vineyard and cidery, a fourteenth-century barn housing a kitchen and cellar door, and walk-in wine tastings.