Our Vineyard & Winery

We grow a selection of grape varieties, spread across our three vineyards. The three sites have different soil profiles although are all predominantly limestone and are very fossiliferous (see some of the fossils we have collected below). Our Woodchester and Amberley sites are typical of Cotswold brash - shallow soils with a high stone content overlying Oolitic limestone, particularly favourable for our Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines. These soils are very free-draining. Our Stonehouse site has a higher clay content and deeper soils well-suited for our Bacchus vines. At all sites, our vines are planted on slopes which are more than gentle but fall short of sheer, facing South, East and South-West.

The grape varieties include: Bacchus, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Regent, Seyval Blanc, Siegerrebe, Solaris, Sauvignon Blanc and Ortega.

We grow our grapes in a sustainable way. You can read more about Sustainability here.

We make a variety of still and sparkling wines, both white and rosé using a selection of grape varieties. Our winery was established in 2016, where we were able to press the entire 2016 fruit. Our four-tonne press has the ability to process the grapes for our still wines in an inert environment using nitrogen, eliminating oxygen and preventing deterioration of the flavour and aromatic potential of the wines. Our wines are then fermented at low temperatures, preserving these primary flavours and aromas. They are then settled in tanks equipped with a positive nitrogen gas system that prevents any potential oxidation from ullage space. Our sparkling wines are made using the traditional method, and have a minimum of two years on the lees before they are released.

Geology

The geology of our area is fascinating and we are always coming across fossils in the vineyards. It is like travelling through time as you walk up the slope in some vineyards as the fossils change in nature as the geology changes. We find scallop shaped shells – either the imprints or the fossilised shells themselves – together with lots of trigonia and ammonites.