How We Farm
Organic by conviction, not for the label. No shortcuts, no sprays. It makes a hard job harder, and it is the only way we want to do it.
CLAYTON
HILLS
Organic, single estate. Wine of England.
A small vineyard on a Sussex farm in Mayfield. We grow the grapes, we make the wine, and only ever our own grapes go in the bottle.
Forty years on land we know by heart. Twenty two thousand vines on six and a half hectares of organic ground, the river below and the hedgerows full of birdsong. Everything here comes from this one hillside.
Mayfield, East Sussex
THE WINE FOLLOWS THE LAND
We grow grapes and make wine on a small organic farm we have lived on for forty years. Single estate, only ever our own grapes, season by season.
Fine wine is made in the vineyard, not the winery. We pick by hand, work gently, and let each vintage become its own thing, season by season.
Through the gate, first light on the rows
WHAT WE DO HERE
Three honest things, in the order they happen. The farming comes first, the wine follows from it.
How We Make Wine
Fine wine is made in the vineyard, not the winery. We pick by hand, work gently, and let each vintage become its own thing.
Our Wines
Sparkling and still white, and rosé. Crisp, dry, juicy. Small runs, bottle numbered, named for the fields and the river they grew beside.
Wine & Shop
Small runs, bottle numbered, sold while they last
Sparkling · 2022
CLAYTON HILLS BRUT
Bottle fermented, three years on the lees. Crisp and dry.
£38
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Still white · 2024
LOWER BROOKS
Pinot Gris from the rows above the river. Juicy and bright.
£26
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Rosé · 2024
WEALD ROSÉ
One picking, pressed gently. Dry, pale and easy company.
£28
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Bottle illustrations shown while the label photography is finished.
THE CONTACT SHEET
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FIELD NOTES
Late May
Flowering
The vines came into flower in the warm spell. A good sign, if the weather holds through June.
April
A late frost
We lit the candles in the bottom field overnight. Some loss, but less than it might have been. The land keeps its own time.
March
Budburst
First green at the tips of the canes. The whole year is ahead of us again, and nothing is promised.
What people say.
The sparkling stood up to anything we pour from Champagne, and our guests love that it is organic and grown twenty miles from the restaurant.
HEAD SOMMELIER · THE WEALDEN ARMS