Join us on 26th August 2023 to celebrate! The photo below shows the special day on 4th May 2013 when our vines were planted at Fairmile Vineyard – all 12,000 of them in one day! The GPS satellite receiver visible in the photo ensured speed and accuracy of spacing. We had purchased the land in …
Artistic Henley! In case you haven’t seen them yet, a pack of playing cards was released this month celebrating all that’s great about Henley on Thames. You can buy a pack, or see them all online at AceHenley. Fairmile Vineyard was proud to be included. The reason we featured as the ten of diamo…
Bumper harvest The current chill makes it easy to forget what a year 2022 was. A Spring free from frosts, the mini heatwave at Easter, followed by that scorching summer with temperatures nudging 40°C. Our vines are mature enough for their roots to seek out sufficient water, so were untroub…
Veraison Fairmile Vineyard is at that time of season called “veraison” by the French, when the colour of the Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier skins transitions from green to black. It never seems to happen uniformly, and you can see green-skinned grapes sitting next to pink or black-skinned grapes, …
Open Days The COVID-19 pandemic has driven demand for people keen to leave lockdown and enjoy the vineyard, socially-distanced in the fresh air. Our slope is deceptively steep, but if you can make it to the top, you will be rewarded by stunning views along the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natur…
Another award-winner! We are delighted to announce that our 2016 wines have gone on sale – a sparkling Rosé and a Classic Cuvée as before. The outstanding 2015 vintage is going to be a hard act to follow, but the 2016 is, if anything, better still. The same glorious colours and fabulous flavours…
We are missing showing visitors around our vineyard, offering tastes of our wines and hearing your comments – just as much as we hope you are missing us during the lockdown! Chelsea Fringe Henley We can however offer a “virtual” tour and tasting – especially to afficionados of the RHS Chelsea…
Even as we watch unprecedented events unfolding globally, the vineyard continues its normal growth cycle, and an early bud-break after the mild winter. Following February’s winter pruning, sufficient labour - happily - was available in March to then tie down each vine to the shape of a capital let…
We are awestruck that Fairmile Vineyard’s Classic Cuvée has been voted the UK’s only Outstanding sparkling wine by Decanter magazine’s Masters of Wine. Decanter is the magazine trusted by connoisseurs and drinks industry professionals alike: their wine reviews are highly regarded around the world. …
Monday 5th August 2019 Phew! Our fabulous steep terrain along the Fairmile helped us escape any frosts in early May, and the delicate buds flowered beautifully to produce an astonishing number of bunches of tiny grapes. In common with many other English vineyards this year we are observing unusu…
