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Vineyards and wineries in Wessex

Hardy country — chalk, hill forts, and the slow English vintage.

37 wineries available to visit— average Vine Culture rating0 curated trips
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Hardy country — chalk, hill forts, and the slow English vintage.

Wessex is the England that writes itself — hill forts, chalk figures, deep lanes between high hedgerows. Vineyards here are scattered, often on land that has grown wheat for two thousand years, planted by farmers who simply tried something different.

The region is small in production terms but rich in character. A few estates are doing serious work with sparkling on the chalk; others have leaned into still Bacchus and Pinot Gris. Tasting rooms tend to be barns; tours tend to be given by owners.

Best done as a long-weekend road trip — base in Salisbury or Sherborne and drive the lanes. Pubs are essential to the day plan.

37
Wineries available to visit
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Average Vine Culture rating
Chalk & flint
Dominant terroir
Recorded at 23 of 37
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Sub-regions & appellations

2 areas

Cranborne Chase

Dorset/Wiltshire borderlands.

Mendip Hills

Limestone country, Somerset.

Cellar doors

Award-winning in Wessex

Wiltshire · Cholderton
BluestoneAwarded

Bluestone is a family-run sparkling wine estate on a Wiltshire farm near Stonehenge, planted in 2016 and run on regenerative, minimal-intervention lines.

Hampshire · Whitchurch

Coates and Seely is a sparkling wine estate near Whitchurch, Hampshire, founded on chalk downland by two friends in 2008.

Hampshire · Hambledon
HambledonAwarded

Hambledon is England's oldest commercial vineyard, planted on South Downs chalk in 1952 and now home to a restaurant listed in the Michelin Guide and a cellar door shop curated by a Master of Wine.

Hampshire · Andover

Black Chalk is a winemaker-led sparkling wine estate in Hampshire's Test Valley, its own winery finished within 48 hours of the first harvest in 2020.

Dorset · Dorchester

Bride Valley is a Dorset vineyard founded by the late wine merchant Steven Spurrier, now run by Alasdair Warren, whose family has made cider locally since 1922.

Hampshire · Exton
Exton ParkAwarded

Exton Park is a single sixty-acre vineyard in the South Downs National Park, growing every grape and making every wine itself since 2009.

Hampshire · Alresford

Hattingley Valley is a Hampshire winery founded by a former lawyer in 2008, now home to a Master of Wine and a 450-tonne winery that also makes wine for growers across the south.

Dorset · Dorchester
LanghamAwarded

Langham is a chalk-soil vineyard and winery near Dorchester, Dorset, making traditional-method sparkling wine in a low-intervention style.

Hampshire · Old Alresford

Pinglestone Estate is Champagne house Pommery's English vineyard on Hampshire chalk, its wines made under the same cellar master as Pommery's own Reims cellars.

Hampshire · Alresford
RaimesAwarded

A family farm near Alresford growing grapes for sparkling wine, with a tasting barn overlooking the vineyard for flights, glasses and grazing boards.

Hampshire · Alresford
The GrangeAwarded

The Grange is a family-run vineyard and winery on Hampshire's Itchen valley, making sparkling and still wine from vines planted in 2011.

Dorset · Lytchett Matravers

A family vineyard in the Purbeck region of Dorset, near Poole, making traditional-method sparkling wine, with owner-led vineyard tours and tastings.

Dorset · Bridport
FurleighAwarded

Furleigh Estate is a family-run vineyard and winery near Bridport, Dorset, growing all its own grapes on an 85-acre site of vines, lakes and grazing land.

Hampshire · Andover

In a Hampshire village on the river Anton, one acre of chalk-slope vines is turned into wine under contract in Staffordshire, with bespoke tastings by appointment.

Dorset · Bridport
LoumaAwarded

Louma is a Dorset country hotel with its own vineyard, where staying guests can book a guided tasting of its sparkling wines.

Hampshire · Crondall
Penn CroftAwarded

Penn Croft is the vineyard and own label of Itasca Wines, a contract winery at Crondall in Hampshire, with a café and wine tasting room at its cellar door.

Hampshire · East Boldre

A fruit farm in the New Forest growing its vines under tunnels, for still wines that include a Gewürztraminer and an orange Bacchus.

Wiltshire · Chippenham
WhitehallAwarded

Whitehall is a family vineyard on a Wiltshire farm dating to 1894, with its own pop-up restaurant serving food grown on site.

Wiltshire · Marlborough

Carvers Hill Estate is the English wine venture of a family already established at Bellevue, a vineyard in Bordeaux.

Hampshire · Stockbridge
DaneburyAwarded

Danebury Vineyards is a small Hampshire estate on the old paddocks of a nineteenth-century racehorse yard, making sparkling and still wine since 1988.

Wiltshire · Downton

Domaine Hugo is a certified organic and biodynamic vineyard in Wiltshire, making traditional method and col fondo sparkling wine.

Wiltshire · Bradford-on-Avon
QuoinsAwarded

An organic and biodynamic vineyard near Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, among fruit and nut trees, visited on group tours. The tours walk the vines and orchards before a tasting.

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