You can celebrate Christmas with an incredible range of locally made drinks from Sussex and Hampshire vineyards, orchards, farms, and hedgerows. Celebrate the superb variety on offer and indulge in sparkling wines, beer, gin, red and white wine, brandy, and cider, all made with produce grown on the South Downs. … Read More
I’m thrilled to announce that we are launching the inaugural South Downs Food Festival at Stansted Park on the 14th & 15th.September this year. The festival will celebrate the finest South Downs produce, with lots of wonderful food and drinks producers, chef demos, BBQ, Sushi, tastings, talks, live music, Tea on … Read More
We have a lovely range of English wines and sparkling to celebrate Easter this year, as well as a couple of continentals that will pair perfectly with lamb. Bodegas Manzanos, Finca Manzanos Crianza, DOCa Rioja, Spain, 2020 – boasting some of the oldest vines in Rioja, this aromatic and intense … Read More
Ashling Park has won another prestigious award at the Wine GB Awards again this year, this time taking home the Trophy for Best Sparkling Rose, having scooped the President’s trophy for the ‘Best Classic Cuvée NV’ for the previous two years as well (which also won gold this year). It’s … Read More
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