Little Waddon Vineyard
This is beautiful West Dorset
We’re nestled at the base of the steep due south facing downs of chalk and limestone, just inland of the sea, Chesil Beach, and the West Fleet at Langton Herring
This is Dorset’s iconic World Heritage Jurassic coast
An Area of Oustanding Natural Beauty, the vineyard lies within a gentle open valley full of sea breezes, sea views and an incredible micro-climate
The same micro-climate enjoyed by Abbotsbury subtropical Gardens just a few miles to the West, where the valley opens out to Lyme Bay beyond
Beneath the vines the soil is made up of a layer of rich loam mixed with flint, chalk and limestone sat on truly ancient deep Kimmeridge Clay, that provides excellent run off and drainage
Originally planted in 2004 the vines are made up of Seyval Blanc, Regent and Phoenix varieties
They clearly enjoy this habitat and have consistently produced award winning wines
In the summer of 2018 Simon and Karen bought the vineyard
Intensely passionate growers they immediately set about converting the vineyard to sustainable organic and bio-dynamic
This is a slow gentle process that allows the land and the vines to settle back to a natural state free from harmful synthetic chemicals, insecticides and herbicides.
The vineyard and it’s surrounding land, flora and fauna is viewed as a single living entity
As of the summer of 2021 the vineyard and the wine became fully certified as Organic by the Biodynamic Association UK and by Demeter
This wonderfully unique Little vineyard is now packed full of diverse wildlife and fauna and together with the limestone and clay forms the true ‘terroir’ of Little Waddon Vineyard
Our Seyval Blanc, Phoenix and Regent grapes produce small batch, wild fermention and low intervention Organic wine, without the need for chemical or mechanical filtering, food colourants, added tanins, or sulphur stabilising at bottling
Our ethos is simply Grape-to-Glass
We try to add and remove as Little as possible on this complex journey
