Come & Visit Us
What is the Cellar Door?
Our Cellar Door shop is open Monday to Friday and showcases our wide range of award-winning English still and sparkling wines, spirits, fruit wines, meads, and liqueurs. There is always a selection of English wines and other award-winning products available to taste – just ask our helpful staff.
Opening Hours Winter / Spring 2026 –
Monday to Friday: 10:00 – 16:30 (Closed for lunch 12:30 – 13:15)
Saturday & Sunday: Closed.
Guided Tasting Experiences 2025
We offer our Gold Guided Tastings Experience at the Cellar Door:
(£35pp): English Wine, Mead & Spirits – 3 Whites, 1 Red, 2 Sparklings, 1 Rose, 1 Mead, Rum or Gin plus accompanying nibbles!
Guided Tastings typically last around 2 hours, we talk you through each wine, how to taste, where the grapes are grown, how it is made and give you a few tips on selecting wine in a shop or restaurant. Each guest also receives winemaker notes on each of the wines sampled and their own Lyme Bay Winery tote bag.
After the tasting, you can have a browse of the Cellar Door shop and enjoy a 10% guest discount on any Lyme Bay goodies that you buy on the day! Tastings are generally held on Thursdays, Friday and Saturday at 2pm (season specific). Please note that Guided Wine Tastings need to be pre-booked. We also offer GUIDED TASTING GIFT VOUCHERS if you’d like to treat that special person! To book your tasting and vouchers please just email us at [email protected]
There are plenty of reasons to visit our Cellar Door in Shute, nestled in the rolling green hills of East Devon’s Axe Valley. Taste of the West awarded us a coveted Gold medal in 2022 for the Cellar Door on account of “the friendly, knowledgeable and passionate staff who guide guests through the range of drinks – with samples galore!” which we then followed up in 2023 with a Gold medal from Food Drink Devon! We added another Taste of the West Gold in 2024 and have just been awarded a 2025 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Award, the third year in a row that we’ve received this accolade!
Steve and and the team fling open the Cellar Door every Monday to Friday 10:00am-4.30pm (closed for staff lunch 12.30-1:15) where visitors can sample many of our products and ask our knowledgeable staff any questions you like. Just five miles from the coast, the Lyme Bay Winery Cellar Door is a stone’s throw away from the quaint town of Axminster, and numerous East Devon delights.
Congratulations!
Getting Married?
From wine to mead, country fruit wine to spirits, we have the award-winning drinks to make your day even more special. Our knowledgeable staff have advised many couples on the best drinks selections to accompany their food and festivities and we have a broad range of drinks to suit every wedding style.
Contact Steve at the Cellar Door to book your wedding tasting today!