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A new home for the our winemaking team!

If you've visited us in the last few months, you might have seen that we are building a new winery. This is a hugely exciting moment for us, and one that marks the beginning of a new chapter in our winemaking journey. Thoughtfully designed for the future, this new space will bring every part of our production together under one roof, giving us a home that feels as considered and carefully crafted as the wines we make.

Since 2013, our winery has grown and evolved across a collection of re-purposed farm buildings. The winery is a 200 year old brick built granary barn. The press shed is an open sided Dutch barn. The barrel store another uninsulated barn. They have been full of character and charm, and have played an important part in the Langham story. We have a real affection for those spaces, but as we have grown, working across several buildings has become increasingly challenging from a logistical point of view.

The new winery has been created around the rhythm of how we work each day, with an undercover press shed for our three presses at harvest, a dedicated tank hall, a temperature and humidity controlled barrel room, and storage for up to 1.2 million bottles. Every detail has been planned to make the process smoother and more efficient, helping us care for our fruit and our wines in the best possible way as Langham continues to grow.

Ground was broken on 1 October, and we are due to complete the build at the end of July. That means we'll be bottling the 2025 wines to go straight into the new storage in the winery, before working out the logistical headache of very carefully moving all of our tanks, presses and equipment over so that we can be ready for harvest.

There is also a more delicate, really interesting challenge that comes with a move like this. For a producer where spontaneous fermentation plays such an important role in shaping the character and soul of our base wines, the winery itself becomes part of the story. Over the years, a natural population of yeast has quietly built up within those old walls, becoming part of the invisible rhythm of each harvest and each fermentation. Moving into a brand new winery means leaving some of that behind and beginning again in a space that is pristine, unfamiliar and yet to develop its own living identity. It will take time for the new building to find its balance, and for that unseen ecosystem to establish itself. It's arguably the most crucial part of this move: carrying forward everything we have learned and relied on to create our huge variety of base wines that then give the final blends their complexity. We 're thinking about whether we can physically transpose some elements of the building into the new fermentation spaces, and even looking at starting some of the first fermentations from the 2026 harvest in the old space, before moving them over to the new winery to start an innoculation of spontaneous fermentation.

Bringing the whole winemaking operation together in one custom-built, solar-powered winery will make a real difference to the way we work, allowing for a more natural flow, greater efficiency and a stronger sense of connection across the whole process. It is a milestone we are incredibly proud of, and one we are so looking forward to sharing with you.