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Tillingham Wines is part of a mixed 70 acre farm in Sussex, where they’ve been raising livestock and growing vegetables, herbs, and fruit trees as well! They just planted their very own grape vines in the spring of 2018 – the same year they released their first vintage using bought-in grapes – so they’re very new to the scene. This has worked to their benefit, as they’ve been able to observe the marriage of old and new methods in the world of viticulture and the rise in visibility for natural wines.

Author: Sophia Tupy

We have three new English wines in stock, all from an exciting producer we’d like to formally introduce: Tillingham. Previously, we’ve only had a couple of their sparkling wines in the shop (Col‘17 & PN’18), and now we’ve got our hands on some of their new still offerings. These include...

We’ve been bringing in loads of new fun and funky wines to our range lately, and that has included several orange wines (much to Sophia’s delight). This style of wine was originally introduced to our blog in this post “Orange Peel Ain’t Real”. For more on the history of orange...

In part two of this consideration of early winter wine, we can move into more familiar territory: reds. I say more familiar, because red wine is typically what most jump to after the first jacket-worthy day. If you think you have abandoned white wine for this season, read the last...

Now that we’re far and away from complaining about how hot it is, we can get to whingeing about how cold it is. Because winter is finally coming. And you know what that means…Gingerbread lattes!(Just kidding.) We start cooking more hot dishes, more comforting meals to keep us warm. It’s...