The Great British Vineyards Guide

Our 100 acre vineyard is located on one single hill in the beautiful village of Burton Bradstock. Chalk and sand soils across the entire site are banked by our very own fresh water stream, which feeds into the River Bride and a wooded reservoir. This unique combination creates the most perfect conditions for growing vines and produces wines of the very best quality. The south facing slopes enable our vines to absorb the most of the English sunshine , this together with optimum levels of watering and delicately controlled nutrition allows us to finely tune the leisurely ripening of our grapes, thus achieving the very finest balance of sweetness and acidity that some of the worlds most famous wines can only hope to achieve.

Our winery is based in the center of our vineyard, alongside the home of Bradstock Estates owners Paula Lewis and her husband Michael. Living among the vines gives Paula (a lifelong gardener and viticulturist) the unique chance to walk among them daily, choosing when to start the handpicking process and passing them onto the winery for the process of transformation from perfect grape to perfect glass of sparkling wine.

Bradstock Estates wines are created using both the traditional method for our more complex wines and also using the Italian Method for more lively, exciting and also using the Italian Charmat technique for more lively, exciting and fresh sparkling wines.