Lurgahsall Winery

I found out more of the Lurgashall story on the United International webpage.

17th century surroundings
Nestling beneath Blackdown, the highest point in West Sussex, where Alfred Lord Tennyson once had his home, Aldworth, stands Lurgashall Winery. The Winery is housed in a complex of converted 17th and 18th Century award winning farm buildings, whose rustic nature compliments the country style products of the Winery.

Modern technology
Inside, the site is anything but rustic, being self-contained with fermentation, maturation and bottling vats, and modern, high quality equipment in a sterile bottling room. Also on site is a fully equipped laboratory for testing wine production at each stage under the careful eye of our resident Winemaker.

Visitors
The Winery attracts some 35,000 visitors annually through the shop and offers a variety of tours and tastings to clubs, associations and groups who can also visit the herb garden next to the shop that has some 55 medieval herbs on display.

Production
Lurgashall Winery began production in 1985 following the acquisition of the Malmesbury Mead and Wine Company that had 2 employees, no more than 12 customers and produced 1,000 bottles of wines and meads.

This acquisition was quickly followed by the strategic purchase of a major portion of Davis Wines, a brewer of country wines since 1855 and this purchase gave the Winery an interesting range of liqueurs that has been successfully developed over subsequent years.

Today the Winery employs 22 full and part-time staff, has more than 1,000 regular customers and produces approaching 500,000 bottles of country wines, meads and liqueurs annually.

A Taste of England
Our policy is to gather ingredients locally wherever possible and to only use real fruits, flowers, vegetables and honey to ensure that the products we sell maintain the authentic flavours of those early days - a true "Taste of England".

For more information on Lurgashall Winery please visit their website at www.lurgashall.co.uk.

22 staff and 500,000 bottles perhaps I’m not the only Mead drinker out here after all.