The Woodfine Wine Vineyard is located here at Newbarn Farm – using ancient winemaking techniques to create a range of natural wines and cider. Tours and tastings are available.
The farm is certified organic – converted by us over recent years under guidance by the Soil Association – creating a regenerative ecosystem that feeds into the natural wine produced from our vineyard by our winemaker, Richard Woodfine.
Natural Wine.
Our wines are a record of how each year passes through our farm. The sun, rain and peculiarities of any given year express themselves in the land: soil, vines and grapes. Every element of the ecosystem contributes: there are insects and birds among the wildflowers, manure from the chickens and sheep tending to our meadow grasses and flowers in the old-fashioned way.
Richard doesn’t want to make any old wine. Only ethically-sourced, nurtured, natural English wine that restores the land on which it is grown, and creates a product people want, that supports its community and that is good for the planet. The use of ancient winemaking techniques and minimal intervention is at the heart of this. Time leads the process – we are simply stewards. We tread as lightly on this place as we can – it follows, then, that we make our wine as naturally as possible. We only use natural methods to make our wines sparkling, the so-called Ancestrale methods such as Pét Nat (Pétillant Naturel / Naturally Sparkling) or Col Fondo.
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