Frome Valley Vineyard

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About Winery and Wines

Frome Valley Vineyard is set amongst the hop yards and cider orchards of Herefordshire, tucked into a curve of the River Frome just by Bromyard. We make award-winning still and sparkling wines, cider and brandy. We are a family-run vineyard and all of us pitch in to run it as sustainably as we can and to welcome our visitors on tour and tastings. 

The vineyard was established in the early 1990s, one of the first of the “new wave” of English vineyards and one of the earliest in Herefordshire. Our wines feature heritage grape varieties from what are now beautifully mature vines!

We run the vineyard as sustainably as possible, and we focus a lot on soil health. A healthy soil grows healthy vines! So we are currently experimenting with biochar, a very pure form of charcoal. We hope very much to find that our “biochar-ed” rows are super healthy and productive whereas our control rows are merely healthy and productive. We are also seeing if wormcast tea can help keep the foliage healthy.

Our variites reflect what was available in the early 1990s and are now "heritiage varietes". We make single varietal still wines from our Bacchus, Madeleine Angevine, Huxelrebe, Reichensteiner and Pinot Noir and one or two blends and we make our sparkling from a blend of pinot noir and seyval blanc. And in some years we distill the grapes into brandy. Over the years, we have won many awards in the English wine scene.