With Autumn now upon us, with its crisp, bright days and cold, dark nights, we would like to introduce our latest wines from our Great Minds Drink Alike collection. These are a selection of remarkable wines produced by like-minded winemakers from across the globe. The wines are carefully curated by our Head Winemaker, Josh Donaghay-Spire, and available exclusively from our Chapel Down winery shop and website. With these latest wines, we have once again partnered with our friends at Domaine Gayda to bring you a pair of fantastic quality, full bodied red wines. Based in the foothills of the French...

This week has been particularly exciting for us and has provided many reasons to celebrate! Firstly, we have officially finished harvesting the fruit from this year’s vintage. After a particularly challenging season, our vineyard and winemaking teams have done an incredible job and, whilst the work in the winery has only just begun, we’re excited to share the resulting wines in due course. Secondly, we were thrilled to receive the support of the government this week with the announcement of the sparkling wine duty relief in the Chancellor’s Budget. Whilst it will not come in to effect until February 2023,...

This week, we have begun harvesting our Pinot Noir fruit. This classic Champagne variety is used in many of our sparkling wines and is often considered to be one of the most charismatic grape varieties. It is also the dominant grape variety in most of our rosé wines, thanks to its delicate colour and elegant flavour profile. Our Chapel Down Sparking English Rose NV is a superb example of this. Chapel Down Sparkling English Rose Like its name suggests, is delicate and feminine with floral aromas. It has hints of blackcurrant, rosehip and wild strawberry on the palate with hints...

It’s official, Harvest 2021 has begun! After a summer where we saw a variety of weather, the past few weeks of warmth and sunshine has helped with the final ripening of the fruit before harvest began on Monday. We have caught up with our Vineyard and Winemaking teams on how harvest is going and what we can expect from the resulting wines.Viticulture Update"We’ve waited a long time this year for a spell of weather that resembles summer, so the recent sunshine and warmer temperatures have been very welcome.On Monday, we officially began harvesting Bacchus at our Kit’s Coty vineyard and...