About This Experience

The owners themselves lead this one: a vineyard tour and tasting at Oastbrook in East Sussex, where the people who planted the vines pour the award-winning results and tell the story of English wine's remarkable rise, with cheese, biscuits and grapes alongside. English wine has become the industry's favourite plot twist, chalk soils shared with Champagne, a warming climate, and awards accumulating fast, and Oastbrook sits in the movement's heartland near Bodiam, its handcrafted wines proving the point vintage by vintage. The owner-led format is the experience's soul. This is not a staffed tour with a script; it is the founders sharing how Oastbrook began, how grapes grown on this land are crafted by hand into unique award-winning wines, and what English winemaking demands of the people mad enough, their telling, to attempt it. Questions get real answers, and the fun promised in the description is genuine. The tasting settles the argument in the glass: Oastbrook's range poured with cheese, biscuits and grapes, sparkling and still expressions of Sussex terroir that increasingly embarrass their continental comparisons in blind flights. The setting completes it: vines near Bodiam's storybook castle country, an easy reach from London or the coast, with private transportation your own arrangement, the estate's rural charm being precisely the point. Wine Trails books your visit online with instant confirmation, direct with the vineyard, no middleman markup. Combine the visit with Bodiam Castle's moated splendour ten minutes away and the day becomes a complete Sussex itinerary, medieval England and modern English wine sharing one afternoon. Trains from London reach the area easily with a short taxi hop, and the estate's bottles make presents with a story attached. Wine's next great region is writing its first chapters in England's south, and the authors still answer the door themselves. An afternoon at Oastbrook, glass in hand with its owners, is a founding-era visit collectors will someday envy, and the cheese course alone justifies the drive.

Meeting Point

Junction Rd, East Sussex Bodiam, England, TN32 5XA, GB

Oastbrook Estate

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Cancellation Policy

Free cancellation up to 24000 hours before. 100% charge within 24 hours of start time.