Bearley Vineyard

Sunset on Bearley Vineyard
To all our customers, friends, family, ex-colleagues and those who have taken an interest in what we are doing.
With regret, we would like to inform you that we are closing down the vineyard and retiring from grape-growing and wine-making.
We planted the vineyard in 2006 and brought it to maturity over the ensuing years. We are proud to have made some nationally acclaimed wines, and to have kept the vines healthy and productive throughout.
We have thoroughly enjoyed what we have achieved here and (most of) the challenges that have been presented to us. We have met and worked with some fantastic customers, fellow-traders and suppliers.
However, the time has come to pack away the secateurs, refractometer and tasting glasses and call it a day.
Many thanks for your interest and support over the years. We will keep the page open for a while and close after a month or so.
Richard & Jo

A beautiful sunny day when we picked our Regent grapes. Another bumper crop. As you can see from the photo, it was lovely to see a flurry of red admirals making a late season appearance. Not so keen on the wasps though!

Sally,Richard and the bird kite are all very proud of our grape harvest this year. We picked a very heavy, healthy crop of early Pinot Noir last week and are looking forward to the next harvest in a couple of weeks.

We shall be at the Leamington Food Festival this weekend and will have all our wines open for tasting, including our Pink Fizz which won the Silver Platter award for best Pink Sparkling. Looking forward to a sunny weekend.

The vineyard is looking healthy and all three varieties are ripening. On the left are the Pinot Noir Précoce which will be ready to pick in late September, closely followed by the Regent, bottom right. Last but not least the Seyval Blanc, our heaviest cropper which makes our sparkling wine. These may not be ready to pick until late October, though one year we didn't pick these until mid-November. This made the wine that won us a Gold Award at the UK Wine of the Year Competition.

We will have all our wines open for tasting on Sunday at the Kenilworth Food Festival. Hope to see you there.🥂

A lovely sunny day on the vineyard. Richard is checking on the inflorescences which will give us an indication of the potential crop this year.

We have a stall at the Warwick Food Festival next Sunday so please come along to sample some amazing local produce CJ's Events Warwickshire Limited

If you haven't yet had the chance to taste English wine please come along to The Alcester Food Festival next Saturday 20th May where we will have all our six wines open for tasting.

What could be better at Easter than a combination of chocolate and English bubbly ?

Will it be English Pink Sparkling, Rose, or Red for Valentines Day ?

Just in time for Christmas we are very pleased to have won the Wine GB Midlands and North Trophy for the best Pink Sparkling.
If you would like a bottle of local wine for Xmas please visit any of our local retail outlets including Shakespeare Distillery in Stratford and Malt Kiln Farm Shop in Stretton-under-Fosse.

Thank you Manor Farm Shop and Farmhouse Kitchen for a very enjoyable festive evening. Great to meet up with all the local producers.

This has been a great year for Seyval Blanc grapes throughout the country, and these at Bearley are no exception. Unfortunately a murmuration of starlings has discovered that they are particularly delicious so we are having to net them. All being well, we will be harvesting them next week.

Lovely to see the fruits of our labour. These Pinot Noir grapes were picked earlier this week, just some of nearly two tonnes that we took to the winery. Looking forward to picking the Regent grapes in a couple of weeks.
Many thanks to our faithful bird of prey for keeping the hungry blackbirds off the grapes. Say hello to Hawkeye sailing high over the bungalows as you drive down Oak Tree Close.

We enjoyed seeing all our regular customers at The Kenilworth Food Festival and soon it will be the 2 day Leamington Food Fest at The Pump Room Gardens. It is always a very happy, busy event with many local food and alcohol stalls such as ourselves, so we hope to see you there.

An enjoyable morning tasting our 2021 wines with Martin Fowke the head wine maker at Three Choirs. Pleased to say the Pinot Noir is tasting as good if not better than last year's vintage and will soon be out on the shelves of our local retail outlets.

The vineyard is looking very healthy and the vines are enjoying this spell of hot weather.

We are pleased Notcutts Garden Centre in Solihull are now stocking our wines. What could be better than a bottle of wine and a plant to celebrate a special day ?

Great to see we are featured as supplier of the week at Manor Farm Shop Catthorpe.

Lovely having company on the vineyard today. Also spotted signs of hedgehogs. Our resident woodpecker was busy flying from post to post and the the hedges seemed alive with birds building nests.

So pleased we have now finished the winter pruning. As you can see the result is a very large heap of vine canes. If you are local please contact us if you would like to come round to collect a bundle. They make excellent canes for use in the garden or they can be used in the barbecue providing a smoky, fruity richness to the food.

Storms Dudley and Eunice meant a lull in winter pruning, but gave Richard a chance to do some woodturning. This bowl is turned from some off-cuts taken from one of our Pinot Noir vines.

A new year means it is time to start taking all the old growth off the vines just leaving two branches and a spur. We have already made a good start and aim to finish before March.

Just in time for Christmas and the New Year, our new Pink Sparkling wine is now on sale at these retail outlets: Shakespeare Distillery Ellenden Farm Malt Kiln Farm Shop Oakes Farm Shop and Snitterfield Village Store. Great for the coming festivities or just to add sparkle to your day.

Photo showing our first customers admiring our new Pink Sparkling wine. Richard is explaining the "traditional method" used in the production of the wine made from the Pinot Noir grapes. Hopefully it will be on sale in the local farm shops and other retail outlets before Christmas.

We are nearing the end of an excellent harvest and are just waiting another week to pick our Seyval Blanc grapes from which we make our Sparkling wine.