Name: Biddenden Vineyards
Rating: 5

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Do the tour and sample the wines,...

8/23/16

Do the tour and sample the wines, you'll be surprised how good they ate, now a regular visitor.
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6/12/16

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Absolutely brilliant cider, always make sure that...

3/8/16

Absolutely brilliant cider, always make sure that I get a bottle or two for Christmas. There locally sourced marmalades and chutneys are excellent little gifts, and their frozen pies are amazing.
Source: google Justin Byrne

What a brilliant place, lovely very helpful...

12/2/15

What a brilliant place, lovely very helpful staff, spent a good hour browsing around the shop, wonderful items of our favourite mulled cider Monks Delight and other fabulous jams, sauces, wines, flavoured spirits, too much to list but everything really lovely. My daughter and I go back every year; much better than walking around the shops at this time of year, very relaxing great way to spend a morning
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Possibly the nicest cider ever - wine's...

10/21/15

Possibly the nicest cider ever - wine's pretty good too - recommended!
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About Winery and Wines

Here at Biddenden Vineyards, Kent’s original commercial vineyard, we pride ourselves on being a family run vineyard with the second and third generation of the Barnes family managing the estate. Originally home to a 40 acre apple orchard, the Barnes family started to consider diversifying the farm in the late 1960s as apple prices began to decline. After listening to a feature on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour programme about English vineyards being replanted, Mrs. Barnes was inspired to turn to viticulture. In 1969, one third of an acre of vines was planted and Biddenden Vineyards was born.

Today our single estate vineyard spans 23 acres of gentle south facing slopes situated in a sheltered valley, just outside the picturesque Wealden village of Biddenden. 11 different grape varieties are grown here to produce our array of award-winning White, Rosé, Red and Sparkling English wines. From the first Biddenden wine, which was bottled around 1972-3, production has now grown to around 80,000 bottles per year. All vine work on the estate is still carried out by hand, including pruning, canopy management and picking, with harvest running from mid to late September right through to November.