Vintage 2025 Report

This was a harvest to remember.

We guide visitors around the vineyard each summer, explaining that in spite of climate change there are still many challenges to ripening a good grape crop in England and that our harvest is likely to take place in early October. Not so the Summer of 2025 - after heat-waves, drought conditions and full sunshine nearly everyday, we began the grape harvest two weeks earlier than ever before, and completed the picking well before the end of the month.

Start date: 2nd September 

Crop: 40 tonnes of grapes

20 local pickers + the vineyard team

8am start for 8 days of picking

30 buckets and 30 snips for hand harvesting

300 crates waiting to be filled out in the vines each morning

3 Gladwin brothers bringing in the crop

4-6 tonnes in the press

323 hectolitres of wine in tank and barrels

1 red wine in the fermenter - a Pinot Noir, sign of a good year!

Countless cups of tea

A glass of wine and slice of homemade cake at the end of each day for our pickers 

Finish date: 26th September

Now as we wait for the wines to settle over Winter, we will begin to prune the 26,000 vines and look ahead to bottling in the Spring.