Happy new year everyone! We here at Oxney are back and putting plans in place for the year ahead. Inevitably this leads to some reflection and revisiting 2019. And (this is hard for a Scandinavian who has lived in England such a long time to say…) 2019 was a great year and a lot of people in the UK, US and rest of Europe seemed to agree we did an amazing job. Ok, that’s over and I am not quite blushing!

2019 was our fifth harvest here at Oxney and with the grapes off the vines, pressed and in barrels and tanks becoming wine we have time to reflect.

We are writing this as the 2019 harvest is a day away. And it is, literally, chucking it down outside. We’re cleaning, getting tractors and picking boxes lined up. Sending too many text messages to the chap in charge of the 15 Romanian pickers we are expecting.

The vineyard looks amazing and we are greatly relieved. To have a good grape harvest there are five plus things that all have to go right in a vineyard over the year.

We are really excited. After planting another 22,000 vines last week Oxney is now the largest organic vineyard in the UK with a total of 14 hectares. Hurrah!

The Bellhurst Farm partnership has received a grant from the Rural Development Programme for England.

Huge excitement in the team this morning – our Classic 2014 English Sparkling Wine has been awarded a silver in The International Wine Challenge.

We started the year with a very balmy early Spring. The buds burst early and the vineyard was an incredible sea of light green, fresh shoots. Then the dreaded frost came…

Sussex! Standing in for Father Christmas we are delivering Classic 2015 for free in Sussex, Kent and London between 13-15 December 2017. A range of gift wrap options are also available…

Join the Oxney Sparkling Wine Club and enjoy delicious wines every quarter! A perfect Christmas present. If you love wine and want to be part of the Oxney family this is one for you.

Spend quality time in the vineyard with new tours and our two stylish shepherd’s huts. We have launched a new format to our vineyard tours and you can now also book on our web site.

We’re on route to be the UK’s biggest organic vineyard with another 22,000 vines on order.

The excitement was HUGE in the Oxney team when we heard that we had won a Gold Medal in The Drinks Business Organic Masters competition

We have finished pruning and we’ve stopped tying down the canes to spend a couple of days spinning the most delicious (and smelly!) chicken manure pellets.

The launch of the first sparkling was a great success. We had a huge amount of people on the day and through November and December sales rocketed culminating with Ben

Oxney Organic Estate, the winery and vineyard in East Sussex, has launched Classic 2014, its first organic English sparkling wine. Oxney has already won medals for its still rosé

The 2016 growing season was interesting – at the start we had everything the weather man could throw at us.

The Oxney English Pinot Noir Rosé was awarded the Waitrose rosé trophy for the most outstanding still rosé wine at the English & Welsh Wine of the Year Competition

Paul was risking his beloved plough today preparing the soil for a new wild flower meadow on our large ex building site in front of the Thomson block.

The buds are out. It is a great sight, and yet totally terrifying. During the winter months, i.e. post harvest, we have hand weeded, pruned, tidied up and burned the prunin

This time last year we had picked our first harvest and had started making wine. This morning I spoke with David Cowderoy, our consultant winemaker, and he talked about late October

It is a slightly unreal moment. After what seems like a lifetime of effort we have a wine that’s bottled, labelled and with our newly acquired premises license ready to share

We have finished pruning and have a lovely and tidy looking vineyard (and a slightly painful right hand – next year I will get those electrical secateurs).

It’s our third autumn/winter in the vineyard and Paul and I are starting to understand the soil here. The best word to describe it is fragile.

We have spent the Spring and Summer kitting out a modern winery in an old restored oast house meters away from the vines.

Great wine starts in the vineyard.  To ensure healthy and natural grapes the vines are regularly sprayed with a regime that includes seaweed and garlic extracts.

Newcastle University has published a review of non-organic vs organic research in its study, Nutritional Composition of Organic Crop F

We are blessed with a fantastic year in 2014.  We will have our first harvest of grapes in October and everything is being done to help ensure top quality grapes.

The vineyard is surrounded by trees which is great as they act as a natural windbrea

Last Friday was a stressful day. It was the kind of ‘oh… there is no going back moment, now we have bought the expensive something moment.