Highweald Vineyard

Planted in 2016, Highweald’s West Sussex vineyard has a beautiful south facing aspect with views of the South Downs.

The soils, originally laid down when Sussex was sub-tropical, are what remains of the ancient Weald-Artois Anticline. This now-eroded dome stretched from south-east England deep into France, and today is topped by the geologically younger Chalk ridges forming the North and South Downs on either side.

The silts, sands and clays are residues of sedimentation and fluvial erosion, and they shape the land in a series of imposing ridges and stunning valleys.