Vineyards and wineries in the South East

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.

Mousehall is a medieval Sussex estate near Wadhurst producing wine as Tidebrook and spirits as Mousehall Spirits, with a stay in its 18th-century oast house.

Ridgeview is a family-run sparkling wine estate on the chalk of the South Downs in Sussex, planted in 1995 by Mike and Christine Roberts.

A Sussex producer of sparkling and still wines, whose working winery at Bee Tree Vineyard near Wivelsfield Green opens for booked tours and tastings.

Albury is a family-run, organic and biodynamic vineyard in the Surrey Hills, planted in 2009.

Artelium is a contemporary wine estate near Hassocks, East Sussex, with two vineyards, a Cellar Door, a restaurant and a mission built on wine and art.

A wine shop, café, restaurant and gin school surround the vines at Ashling Park, a vineyard estate near Chichester dating to 1822.

Bolney Wine Estate is a family-founded vineyard and winery in the West Sussex village of Bolney, with vines planted since 1973.

A family-run vineyard in a chalk valley of the South Downs near Lewes, making sparkling wine with Seyval Blanc as its principal grape. Wine is sold from the cellar door by appointment.

A family-run single estate in the High Weald of East Sussex, growing Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier for sparkling wine, with tastings and vineyard walks by arrangement.

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.

Everflyht is a single-estate vineyard on 10 hectares at the foot of Ditchling Beacon in the South Downs, making English sparkling wine.

Henners is a family vineyard and winery in Herstmonceux, East Sussex, with an open cellar door for sparkling and still English wines.

Highweald Wine Estate is a Sussex vineyard with a walk-in Garden Bar among the vines, sparkling and still wines, and award-winning results in its first year of release.

Hoffmann & Rathbone is a small, appointment-only sparkling wine producer in the Sussex-Weald, releasing wine only in years its makers judge good enough.

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.

Nyetimber is a sparkling wine estate in West Chiltington, West Sussex, growing all its own grapes and receiving visitors on ticketed open days and dinners.

Oxney is a Soil Association-certified organic single-estate vineyard in the East Sussex High Weald, with a walk-in wine tasting, its own shepherd's huts and a Jacobean house to stay in.

Plumpton College is the UK's Wine Centre of Excellence in East Sussex, teaching viticulture and oenology on its own ten-hectare vineyard since 1989.

Rathfinny is a single-site sparkling wine estate on the South Downs near Alfriston, planted from 2012 on the same chalk band that runs beneath Champagne.

Roebuck Estates farms six vineyard parcels across West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent, making vintage-only traditional method sparkling wine.

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.

Tinwood Estate is a former lettuce farm turned South Downs vineyard, with a walk-in wine kitchen and eight lodges to stay in among the vines.

A traditional-method sparkling wine estate on Blackdown in West Sussex, where the River Wey rises, with private events held around the vineyard.

Wiston Estate is a family-run Sussex vineyard whose sparkling wine was used to christen the royal yacht Britannia in 2015.

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.

Albourne Estate is a family-run vineyard and winery near Brighton, producing sparkling and still wines and one of the first English vermouths.

Ambriel is a single-estate sparkling wine producer near Pulborough in West Sussex, with its winery set in the middle of its own greensand vineyard.

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

A family-owned vineyard and winery in the High Weald near Heathfield in East Sussex, with an on-site cafe and shop, and owner-led vineyard tours that end in a tasting.

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

Bluebell Vineyard Estates is a Sussex vineyard that grew from a hobby into almost 100 acres of vines, close to the Bluebell Steam Railway.

Charles Palmer Vineyards is a family-run, 40-acre vineyard above the Cinque Port of Winchelsea, East Sussex, planted in 2006.

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.

Court Garden is a family-run vineyard in Ditchling, East Sussex, whose sparkling wine has won International Wine Challenge trophies.

Denbies is a large, well established single-estate vineyard in the Surrey Hills, with vineyard tastings, a hotel and four places to eat across the grounds.

Digby Fine English blends sparkling wine from vineyards across four counties, poured from a Grade II listed townhouse wine bar in the middle of Arundel.

Greyfriars is a sparkling wine producer on the chalk slopes of Surrey's Hog's Back, first planted in 1989 and rebuilt from 2010 by Mike and Hilary Wagstaff.

A family-run vineyard and winery in Horam, East Sussex, Hidden Spring pours its tastings in a purpose-built tasting room.

A Surrey Hills vineyard at East Clandon making vintage-only sparkling wine, with tastings and art in a Glass Barn that looks out to London.

A vineyard in Thakeham, West Sussex, with a restaurant, café deli and farm shop in its farmhouse, and guided tours of the vines and winery.

Leonardslee is a Sussex sparkling wine estate planted in 2017 on a former golf course at Mannings Heath, with walk-in cellar-door tastings, a hotel and a restaurant among the vines.

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

Mountfield is a small East Sussex vineyard producing English sparkling wine, fermented partly in oak barrels and aged long-term on the lees, from vines planted in 2012.

Nutbourne Vineyards is a family-run estate near Pulborough, West Sussex, with vines first planted in 1979 and expanded by the Gladwin family since 1991.

Oastbrook is a family-run vineyard and winery on the River Rother in East Sussex, growing both still and sparkling wine on a sandstone-and-clay ridge near Bodiam Castle.

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.

Abingworth is a family-run vineyard near Pulborough, West Sussex, started in 2021 by Chris and Caroline Stedman and their four daughters.

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.

Off The Line Vineyard is a vineyard and winery in East Sussex, making still and sparkling wine on six hectares in the Weald.

Stopham Vineyard grows sand-soil vines in the South Downs National Park, making precision-tracked still and sparkling wines, with tours most Saturdays through the season.

Tilsmore is a family-run sparkling wine estate in Mayfield in the Sussex Weald, with vineyard tours and tastings led by the family who grow the grapes.

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.

Dillions is a family-run vineyard in the Sussex High Weald, between Staplefield and Handcross, growing its own grapes for still Bacchus and rosé wine.