It’s time to plan your Christmas celebrations, and your festive feast can champion the finest local producers. Not only do we have award-winning turkeys, superb-tasting geese, aged Hampshire beef and wild Uppark venison, but we will be making our own chipolatas, sausage rolls, venison, beef and vegetarian Wellingtons. Much of … Read More
It’s English Wine Week and we have some new wines in stock from Wykes Vineyard on the South Downs in Upper Swanmore. They have three distinct wines: PINOT NOIR RED WINE A delicate and silky cool-climate Pinot Noir. Smoky red fruits and warm spice on the nose with strawberry and … Read More
It’s Mothers Day this Sunday, and while it is still not possible to go for a nice lunch, you can cook up a storm while keeping things simple. We have a superb range of scrummy produce to suit every Mum, from chocolates and gin to fillet steak and cheese. We … Read More
Valentine’s Day is a chance to express your love to your better half, and this year, it’s worth spreading that love to your local producers as well. Why buy roses flown in fridges from Africa when we have our own beautiful Alstroemeria grown in West Sussex by Ben at Crossland … Read More
We are very excited to be stocking Gospel Green Cyder again after a break of two years. This is a superb ‘traditional method’ cyder using only the finest apples hand selected from the Blackmoor Estate. They use the champagne method, where Sussex apples are fermented for 4 months in vats, … Read More
Every hedgerow and wood side seems to be heaving with Elderflower at the moment – and now is the time to pick some blooms and make some wild Elderflower cordial Elderflower fritters, or your own Elderflower wine. While we’re on the subject of drink, elderflower cordial also combines with gin … Read More
We are excited to be celebrating some of our great local wine producers during English Wine Week with a talk and wine tasting by Liz Sagues on Wednesday 30th May at 6.30pm. Liz Sagues is a Journalist and has just published A Celebration of English Wine (Robert Hale 2018). She … Read More