A truly personal experience from grape to glass.
We are proud to offer wine lovers across the UK the unique opportunity to create and enjoy their own fine English wine using our own well-established variety of vines through our range of vine rental packages.
The gift of a lifetime, this exclusive offering allows our clients to try their hand at winemaking, getting involved as much, or as little as they desire. With leasing options from 3 to 50 vines available, Chet Valley leaseholders receive between 6 and 100 bottles of their own wine per year, whilst benefitting from exclusive vineyard access, a complimentary tour, invites to leaseholder events, and more.
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From: £135.00 for 1 year
We are delighted to be able to offer three different vine leasing schemes from our Vineyard in South Norfolk. These can be either just still wines, white and rosé, or just sparkling wines or a combination of both – as below – depending on each year’s harvest. Each lease scheme can be undertaken over a one-year or three-year period. If ordering as a gift, please include the recipients details, including name, address, email and phone number, under Order Notes on the Checkout page.
About the Vineyard
Nestled in the sheltered, sun-soaked fields of Bergh Apton, South Norfolk, Chet Valley Vineyard’s single estate vineyard spans over 10 hectares of family-owned land, producing a sensitively maintained range of high-quality grapes, from champagne varieties to germanic crosses. Benefitting from the English vineyard’s rich terroir, alongside the skills of passionate winemaker John Hemmant, our carefully curated final bottles form a collection of award-winning artisan English wines year-on-year, from fruit-forward rosés to aromatic whites.
Our expansive land and wide range of well-established vines offer our leaseholders the opportunity to create numerous crates of high-quality wines year-on-year, delivering a truly personal experience from harvest to corking.
Why Rent Vines at Chet Valley?
Personalised lease certificate
All Chet Valley leaseholders receive a beautifully designed, personalised certificate of ownership, featuring further details of the vineyard itself, their chosen vines alongside their precise location, and details of all leaseholder benefits.
Visit your Vines
Explore the Chet Valley Vineyard, check on the progress of your vines and why not bring a summer picnic too? Leaseholders are granted exclusive access to the vineyard and invited to bring a guest on a tour and wine tasting.
Complimentary Wine flight of three wines for 4 people
Leaseholders are invited to bring up to 4 guests on a complimentary wine tasting. You will have the opportunity to try three samples of any of the wines we produce at Chet Valley Vineyard.
Invites to exclusive leaseholder events
As a Chet Valley leaseholder, you’re invited to take part in our annual harvest, meet the team and pick your own grapes. We also hold several other events throughout the year which leaseholders can attend for free, such as our pruning day, blending event, launch of new vintage, and sustainability day.
10% off all Chet Valley wines
Whilst the wine yield from our vine rental packages already constitutes a significant discount, we’re delighted to offer all leaseholders an additional 10% off our full range of Chet Valley wines, both in our on-site shop, and online.
Custom Labelling
We understand the importance of making your wine truly yours. For an additional cost, our packaging specialists are pleased to offer a custom labelling service, allowing you to submit a design of your choice for printing and wrapping.
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OUR WINES
Browse Chet Valley Vineyard’s range of artisan sparkling and still English wines, handcrafted using distinct varieties of cool-climate grapes grown in our family-owned English vineyard here in South Norfolk.
The grape varieties grown at Chet Valley Vineyard include Solaris, Phoenix, Schönburger, Chardonnay, and Seyval Blanc grown alongside reds such as Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Cabernet Noir, and Regent, using traditional techniques optimised to our British terroir. From our award-winning Charmat-style ‘Skylark’ wines and flagship Méthode Champenoise, ‘Horatio’, to our varietal stills including our ‘Redwing’ rosé, there’s a bottle in our range to suit every palate.
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Redwing 2022 Rosé
£19.00 – £109.00 -
Siskin 2022
£19.00 – £109.00 -
Swift 2022 Schönburger
£21.00 – £120.00 -
House of Hemmant Blanc de Blanc 2021
£32.00 – £190.00 -
House of Hemmant Blanc de Noirs 2021
£32.00 – £190.00 -
English Sparkling white wine Skylark Brut 2021
£28.00 – £160.00 -
English Sparkling white wine Skylark Demi Sec 2021
£28.00 – £160.00
- Our vision is to create the finest English wines in a sustainable way by marrying technical expertise with sensitivity to the grapes both in the field and in the winery giving our wine drinkers an excellent experience.
Customer Reviews
Anna Lipp
9 months ago via Google
Lovely afternoon touring and learning about the vineyards and tasting the wines with locally produced nibbles. John is an excellent host and passes on technical information easily. A delightful way to celebrate a 60th birthday with a family group and even better being able to cycle through beautiful lanes in the sun to get there .
Karen Begg
5 months ago via Google
Fantastic and certainly well worth a visit. John explained every aspect from the vineyard to the production of the wine making. Thank you so much for a very enjoyable experience.
JimKeys
8 months ago via Google
John was great the vineyard itself is lovely. Very informative. No pressure to buy anything after. A very relaxed and lovely day, we had blazing hot sunshine also which made it that even more special. Great work guys!
Steve Carey
4 months ago via Google
Very knowledgeable info about the history, vines,wines and nice tour with tasting and nbbes. Lovely sparkling wines.....
Tom Holmes
6 months ago via Google
We had a wonderful day at Chet Valley! We hired the venue for a family party and enjoyed food and wine on the balcony overlooking the beautiful vineyard scenery. We particularly enjoyed the Horatio Rose Brut which was very refreshing on a hot summers day. We had an excellent tour of the vineyard with the owner, John who was very knowledgeable about not only the vines and the wine but also the local area and all things nature related. He was also very good with the children in our party. I’d highly recommend Chet Valley Wine and also Chet Valley as a venue to hire.
Esme Packett
5 months ago via Google
Don't be deceived by the sunny photo below! A friend and I joined a Chet Valley vineyard tour earlier this year, and despite pandemic restrictions and a torrential downpour that even included hail at one point, John managed to pull off an engaging and fun event. It would appear nothing can dampen his enthusiasm. 😉 Chet Valley has a surprisingly wide range of wines of good quality. So if you are in or around Norfolk - or want an excuse to be - I highly recommend paying them a visit. (Warning: you will probably want to purchase a few bottles too...)
