English Wine
English Wine Week 2026
June 4, 2026
English Wine Week returns
English Wine Week returns from 20–28 June 2026, bringing a national focus to English vineyards, wineries and cellar doors across the country.
At Lyme Bay Winery in East Devon, we mark the week with a celebration of new English wine releases and limited cellar door tastings, offering visitors the opportunity to experience English wine at its source during one of the most important weeks in the wine calendar.
This is one of the most important weeks in the English wine calendar — and one of the best opportunities to taste English wine at its source in Devon.
New English wine releases
To celebrate English Wine Week 2026, we are introducing three new English wines available with 20% off throughout the week, both online and at our Cellar Door.
Shoreline Rosé 2025, Bacchus Block 2025 and Pinot Noir Rosé 2025 each express a different side of English wine today, from coastal freshness and bright acidity to aromatic precision and lifted fruit character.
These are the newest additions to our still wine range. To celebrate English Wine Week, enjoy a special limited-time offer on these new releases.
About the 2025 vintage
Blessed with a warm dry season and early harvest, 2025 delivered pristine fruit and remarkable ripeness. The result is wines with depth and concentration alongside the natural acidity that defines English still wine. You’ll taste it most clearly in the new releases: ripe fruit character, balanced by the lift and precision that comes from our cool maritime climate.
Cellar Door exclusives for English Wine Week
Alongside these releases, we are also unveiling three additional wines created especially for English Wine Week.
These wines have been bottled in advance and are currently held back for the event, where they will be shown for the first time exclusively at our Cellar Door.
Available only during English Wine Week, they can be tasted — and purchased — on site before their wider release later in the year.
The selection includes Pinot Noir Rosé 2025 and a limited release Chardonnay 2019, each offering a different perspective on the evolution of English still wine.
Together, they move from fresh and expressive styles through to more structured and developed expressions shaped by vineyard site and vintage.
English Wine Week at the Cellar Door
English Wine Week is one of the most engaging times of year to visit English wineries, and our Cellar Door in East Devon sits at the heart of the celebration.
Throughout the week, we will hold host-led tasting experiences, giving visitors the chance to explore English wine across styles, vintages and vineyard sources in a relaxed, guided setting.
From new releases to cellar door exclusives, it is a rare opportunity to taste English wine side by side and to see how it continues to evolve.
Our Cellar Door is open Tuesday to Saturday, and we strongly recommend booking ahead during English Wine Week. We’re proud to have been awarded Travelers’ Choice 2026 on Tripadvisor, recognising the experience our team creates for every visitor.
The Jurassic Coast is close enough to make a proper day of it. Pair a Cellar Door visit with a coastal walk or lunch in one of East Devon’s nearby villages.
What is English Wine Week?
English Wine Week is a national campaign led by WineGB under the motto “Create New Traditions, Drink English & Welsh Wine”, celebrating the growth and quality of English and Welsh wine.
It connects vineyards, wineries and cellar doors across the country, encouraging people to discover English wine through visits, tastings and direct encounters with producers.
English wine regions
English wine is shaped by a diverse range of regions, each contributing its own character to the wines produced.
The South East of England remains the heart of production, known for chalk soils and traditional method sparkling wines.
East Anglia offers warmer, drier conditions well suited to producing still wines from varieties such as Bacchus, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Across all regions, English wine is defined by freshness, precision and balance, with still wines increasingly standing alongside sparkling styles in quality and recognition.
The evolution of English wine
Over the past decade, English wine has evolved rapidly, driven by a cool climate, long growing seasons and a growing focus on vineyard precision.
These conditions naturally produce wines of freshness and clarity, which have helped establish England as one of the most exciting cool-climate wine regions in the world.
More recently, still wines have developed significantly, with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and even Sauvignon Blanc leading a new expression of English winemaking focused on purity and site character.
Lyme Bay Winery
Based in East Devon, Lyme Bay Winery is one of the UK’s most awarded producers of English still wine, working closely with growers across southern England to source fruit from carefully selected vineyard sites.
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