Wine Festival 2015 The Vineyards of Hampshire Wine Festival 2015 was held at Hambledon Vineyard on Sunday 12th July 2015. The Vineyards of Hampshire Wine Festival is a small, but perfectly formed, wine festival consisting of several Hampshire Wineries, all of whom are Hampshire Sparkling Wine Producers, and local Hampshire food producers. The food […]
Tenuta Villa Trasqua
The Wines of Villa Trasqua Tenuta Villa Trasqua is situated in the locality of Trasqua in the very heart of the Chianti region, just a few kilometres to the south-west of the famous small city of Castellina in Chianti. From the estate one can see the historic, walled, medieval, hilltop village of San Gimignano. They […]
Hambledon Vineyard Visit Part 2
Continued from Hambledon Vineyard Visit Part 1. Hambledon Vineyard Winery Visit Hambledon Vineyard made national newspaper headlines earlier this year when HRH The Duchess of Cornwall officially opened the £2.5 million, 100% gravity fed state-of-the-art winery. It was rather fitting that the Duchess of Cornwall was chosen to open the winery as she is the […]
Hambledon Vineyard Visit Part 1
I was lucky enough to visit Hambledon Vineyard on a very windy, and rainy, day in late October 2013. So, I don’t really have any great pictures of the vineyards and grapes etc. to share, but I do have some really interesting photographs of their brand new winery – currently, and I imagine for some […]
Meonhill Chardonnay Brut NV – Decanter World Wine Awards 2013 Results
Meonhill Chardonnay NV | Decanter World Wine Awards 2013 Results Our favourite local English sparkling wine producer Meonhill Wines has won a Silver Medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2013 for their new release, the Meonhill Chardonnay Brut NV, or Blanc de Blancs as I prefer to call it. Read more about the Meonhill […]
Wickham Vineyard
Wickham Vineyard – Rises from the Flames! I expect some of you have been following the story of Wickham Vineyard and how it fell into administration in December 2012. Wickham Vineyard has always been one of the better known English vineyards and certainly the best known local vineyards to Fareham Wine Cellar. The good news […]
Mayfield Expression Brut Rosé
Mayfield Expression Brut Rosé Today I received in the post a bottle of Mayfield Expression Brut Rosé which was my prize for my suggestion for the name of Albion for a name for English Sparkling Wine in a competition run by wine educators Susie and Peter. You can read my reasons if you follow the […]
Matthew Jukes mentions Meonhill Wines
Starting to take notice of Meonhill Wines! Seven English wines to make us all proud – with full stockist list! A nice mention for Meonhill Reserve Brut NV from top English wine-writer Matthew Jukes in this article picking 7 of the best English sparkling wines. Contrary to what the article says, at this point, they […]
Meonhill Wines – A New English Winery in Hampshire
Now available at the Fareham Wine Cellar. Edit 06/06/15 Please note, since this article was written the ownership of Meonhill Wines has changed. The Chaplin family are no longer involved and it is now a joint venture, since 2014, between founder Didier Pierson and Ian Kellett but separate from Hambledon Vineyard Plc., where he remains […]
