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CLAYTON HILLS
Misty hills over the vineyard

Mayfield, East Sussex

MIST, CHALK
AND PATIENCE

Organic single estate wine from one Sussex hillside. Grown, made and bottled where the grapes stood.

One hillside, honestly farmed.

There is an awful lot of nonsense talked about terroir. Fine wine is made in the vineyard, not the winery. It is all about the grape, and the grape is all about the land it stood on, the weather it took, and the hands that tended it.

Ours stand on a south facing slope in the Sussex Weald, above the river, on ground that has been farmed organically for forty years. Everything in the bottle starts there.

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.

October mist over the vines
Through the gate, first light on the rows

Taste the hillside.

Come and walk the rows, meet the people who make the wine, and try the current vintages where they were grown.

A beautiful afternoon among the vines and the most honest wine tasting we have ever done. You can taste the care in every glass.
SARAH M · GOOGLE REVIEW
Rated 4.9 from 86 Google reviews

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.

October mist over the vines
Through the gate, first light on the rows

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.

Still white · 2024

LOWER BROOKS

Pinot Gris from the rows above the river. Juicy and bright.

Rosé · 2024

WEALD ROSÉ

One picking, pressed gently. Dry, pale and easy company.

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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
Evening at the gate

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