(+ £1.25 booking fee)
The Malvern Hills Vineyards are really looking forward to the inaugural wine festival on Saturday 5 September in the glorious surroundings of Mathon Court. Running from 12 midday till 6pm, there will be more than 20 wines to taste, with all the grapes grown within sight of the Malvern Hills, and the wine made by Three Choirs. Alongside the wine tasting, there will be a great choice of foods, with Pomadore Gourmet Pizza, Salt and Smoke, and the Devil’s Dollar Bakery. For entertainment, there will be three brief talks about the quality of the Malvern Hills terroir, about the way we grow are grapes, and finally how the grapes are turned into wine. For the more active there will be some crazy golf, and a band to make sure that all the senses are satisfied.
Get your tickets now to benefit from the early Bird price of £25
www.malvernhillsvineyards.co.uk/wine-festival/
Tickets will be available on the day at £35.
Blackmore Campsite – A highly-rated campsite with pitches available from £10.15 per night, located in Worcestershire www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk.
Kings Green Caravan Park – A small, family-run campsite situated at the foot of the Malvern Hills. Contact: (01531) 650 272 www.kingsgreencaravanpark.co.uk.
Malvern Hills Club Campsite – A club campsite in Worcester open to both members and non-members, welcoming caravans and motorhomes www.caravanclub.co.uk.
Newland Meadows Caravan and Camping Site – A friendly, grassy site surrounded by mature trees and the Malvern Hills newlandmeadows.co.uk.
Riverside Caravan Park – Offers a spacious camping and touring field with views of the Malvern Hills and River Severn www.riverside-park.co.uk.
Deer Park has a great reputation for producing great wine and providing great hospitality, and has chosen to team up to highlight how local expertise and reputation in growing great grapes and making excellent wines, is going from strength to strength in this area.
Together the six vineyards grow no fewer than 14 grape varieties over a total of 40 hectares spanning three counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. They produce a wide range of still and sparkling wines, regularly winning awards in international tasting competitions. In fact, the 2026 tasting competitions have been very favourable to the Malvern Hills partners. Four out of the six vineyards have won awards in International competitions, notably Two Beacons with three medals in this year’s prestigious Decanter worldwide awards, Three Choirs with no less than 17 awards just this year, and Deer Park with Decanter and Wine GB awards. The success of Marlbank with a silver in the Wine GB awards this year, despite its tiny size, just shows how smaller vineyards can use the growing conditions and the weather to produce great wines.
We are going to celebrate this outstanding success and the arrival of Deer Park, with a Wine Festival on 5 September this year starting at 12 midday right through to 6pm. You will be able to taste these award winning wines, with a commemorative glass, in the amazing surrounds of Mathon Court, the base for the Two Beacons Vineyard. Interesting talks about growing grapes and making wine, local musicians, games and food stalls will complete the afternoon’s entertainment.
Please make the most of the Early Bird pricing of £25 per person, by booking your ticket on the Malvern Hills Vineyards website before end July.
Please make the most of the Early Bird pricing of £25 per person, by booking your ticket on the Malvern Hills Vineyards website here.
Blackmore Campsite – A highly-rated campsite with pitches available from £10.15 per night, located in Worcestershire www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk.
Kings Green Caravan Park – A small, family-run campsite situated at the foot of the Malvern Hills. Contact: (01531) 650 272 www.kingsgreencaravanpark.co.uk.
Malvern Hills Club Campsite – A club campsite in Worcester open to both members and non-members, welcoming caravans and motorhomes www.caravanclub.co.uk.
Newland Meadows Caravan and Camping Site – A friendly, grassy site surrounded by mature trees and the Malvern Hills newlandmeadows.co.uk.
Riverside Caravan Park – Offers a spacious camping and touring field with views of the Malvern Hills and River Severn www.riverside-park.co.uk.
The Malvern Hills Vineyards is a new collaboration of six independent vineyards, which have chosen to team up to highlight how local experience, expertise and reputation in growing great grapes and making excellent wines is going from strength to strength in this area. This announcement comes just ahead of English Wine week as an example of the growth of the wine industry in the UK.
Together the six vineyards grow no fewer than 14 grape varieties over a total of 35 hectares spanning three counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. They produce a wide range of still and sparkling wines, regularly winning awards in international tasting competitions.
The six vineyards are Three Choirs, Chase End, Bromesberrow Place, Foxbury Fields, Marlbank and Two Beacons. The character and story of each vineyard is unique, but what they have in common is people with a passion for the art and craft of viticulture, and a respect for the soils that nurtures their vines.
The new collaboration aims to raise awareness and interest in this burgeoning sector which has deep roots in the Malvern Hills area. Grapevines are taking over where apples, pears and hops used to grow.
“We’ve been growing grapes at Three Choirs since 1973, when this was a very innovative thing to do,” says Martin Fowke, Managing Director. “The terroir has always been good for vines, and the effects of climate change now mean that we regularly have excellent growing conditions. In that time, we have seen huge changes in the shape of the market, with food and accommodation complementing the tours and tastings. Today, we are seeing more and more interest and desire to understand how we grow grapes, how we manage sustainably the vineyard and the winemaking, and how the changing climate is affecting quality, choices and practices.”
The youngest vineyard in Malvern Hills Vineyards collaboration is Marlbank, where Manager Jeremy Macklin brings experience from working closely with vineyards in France. “When I moved here in 2020 I discovered the marl soils were very similar to those in Burgundy, which produces excellent pinot noir grapes, so it was a bit of a “no-brainer” to plant 1500 pinot noir vines in a field where apples and pears used to grow.
All six vineyards offer tours and tastings. For contact details please go to the website, www.themalvernhillsvineyards.co.uk.
We’re throwing open our gates to visitors for a series of ‘Taste of Herefordshire’ tours and tastings as part of English Wine Week next month Saturday June 21 to Sunday June 29, 2025.
We’re hosting events on June 21, 22, 25, 27 and 28 to help raise awareness of the county’s wine producers and wine tourism opportunities.
BOOK NOW
Behind-the-scenes tours
We’re delighted to be hosting these behind-the-scenes tours during English Wine Week 2025, which is organised by our industry body WineGB, and to give visitors the opportunity to try some of the wonderful wines we make here in Herefordshire.
English wine is going from strength-to-strength. We’ve had some great production years recently including 2023, which was pretty near perfect in terms of the weather, the harvest and the number of bottles produced.
Wine tourism
2024 proved a bit challenging with all the wet weather at the start of the year so it’s going to be interesting to see how we all fare in 2025, especially with the drier start to the year we’ve had so far.”
WineGB’s ‘UK Wine Tourism in 2024 Report’ shows that visits to vineyards and wineries have risen by 55% and that vineyards and wineries are now actively involved in wine tourism.
We’re very proud of the cultivation, land management and environmental practices we’ve implemented at our vineyard, as well as the award-winning wines we make and we’re looking forward to showing it to anyone who is interested in finding out more.
Our awards
We’ve been winning regional and national awards for our wines for many years and have a range of accolades from silver and bronze to highly commended from WineGB West going back to 2017.
We were awarded with bronze medals in 2023 for both our 2021 Bacchus and Ortega wines from WineGB and a silver for our 2022 Ortega and our 2022 Bacchus at 2023’s WineGB West awards event, which was judged by industry experts including top wine journalist, Susy Atkins.”
To enhance the celebrations, English Wine Week also coincides with the Summer Solstice, which falls on June 21.
About our tours
Every event takes place at our vineyard, nestled at the foot of the Malvern Hills. After walking through the vines and touring our site, guests can sit back and try our award-winning classic vintage English Bacchus and our wonderfully perfumed Ortega wines.
The vineyard is a five-to-10-minute walk from our farm, so if anyone has any walking difficulties, but would like to come along, please get in touch with us direct before booking and we can discuss accommodating your needs.
Dates & Times
Our ‘Taste of Herefordshire’ tours and tastings are on:
Saturday, June 21 from 3pm
Sunday, June 22 from 3pm
Wednesday, June 25 from 6pm
Friday, June 27 from 6pm
Saturday, June 28 from 3pm.
How to book
Each tour, which is priced at £5 per person, lasts approximately 90 minutes to two hours and includes the wine tasting. Tickets should be booked in advance via the store section here. Advance booking is required to guarantee a place.