English Sparkling Wine

Langham Estate pride themselves in crafting terroir-driven sparkling wines using grapes only grown on the chalk soils of their Dorset vineyard. Taking a low-intervention approach in both the vineyard and to wine production, the results are impressive - and the wines represent brilliant value for the immense quality. Awarded Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year 2020 by the IWSC competition.

Founded in 1995 by Mike and Chris Roberts, pioneering estate Ridgeview crafts world-class sparkling wine in Sussex, with an emphasis on quality and sustainability from vine to glass. Winner of the IWSC 'International Winemaker of the Year' in 2018, Ridgeview wines have been served at numerous Royal occasions and State Banquets. 

The world-class wines of Sugrue South Downs are the personal project of celebrated winemaker Dermot Sugrue, in collaboration with his wife Ana, and their small team. Together they manage three exceptional, mature vineyards across the South Downs of Sussex, the earliest planted in 2005 and 2006 on chalk soils.

Nyetimber owns vineyards across nine separate sites stretching along the green sandstone and chalk hills of the South East of England, from Kent to Hampshire, and all the wines come entirely from estate grown fruit. In 2018 Head Winemaker Cherie Spriggs was named Sparkling Winemaker of the Year at the International Wine Challenge, the first such accolade for a female winemaker and for someone working outside the Champagne region.

The beautiful family-run Wiston estate has been owned and run by the Goring family since 1743 and is located in the Sussex South Downs. In 2006, the family planted a south-facing 16-acre site with Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay vines. A multiple award-winner, having won Wine GB Winery of the year in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022, among many other individual accolades for its wines, this property is a hotbed for world-class sparkling wine.

Mark and Sarah Driver founded Rathfinny in 2010, on a working arable farm just outside the picture-perfect village of Alfriston in East Sussex. Everything from the state-of-the-art cellar to the labels that show off Sussex’s famous Seven Sisters, just a few miles down the road, has been very carefully thought out, and the wines balance purity and ripeness of fruit with an incredible freshness.

Set at the foot of Ditchling Beacon, this single vineyard estate was established by owners Sam and Ben Ellis, who bought it in 2015, inspired by family travels, as well as their fervent passion for sparkling wines. Led by vineyard manager Luke Spalding (formerly of Ridgeview), the Ellis family began planting 6.8 hectares of vines in 2016, including the traditional English sparkling wine varieties Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. 

Founded in 1952 by Major-General Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones, Hambledon is England’s oldest commercial vineyard, with wines even served to French president Jacques Pompidou during an embassy reception in the 1970s.  Hambledon’s vineyards lie on Newhaven chalk soils - the same soils that are found in Champagne’s Côte des Blancs.