Vineyard Tour, Wine Tasting and Lunch for Two at Bolney Wine Estate
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Overview
Learn the history of English wine, sample vintages in a West Sussex Vineyard and delight in a two-course seasonal lunch with this Grand Gourmet Tour at Bolney Wine Estate.
Enjoy a glass of sparkling wine on arrival before embarking on a tour of the 18-acre vineyard as your guide teaches you the history of English wine and how it’s made. Go behind the scenes of the state-of-the-art Winery and Bottling room and learn about the winemaking process, before a tutored tasting of five award-winning wines, matched with a tasting plate. You’ll also get to sample Bolney’s own Gin.
Finish on a high with a two-course seasonal buffet lunch, brimming with meats, cheeses, artisan breads and sweet treats. A fantastic day out for wine-lovers everywhere.
- SKU
- PBOL2L
- Locations
- 1 in the UK
- People
- For 2
- Validity
- 12 Months
- Rating
- 4.8 (45)
What's Included
- 2 hour 30 minute tour and tasting of the Bolney Wine Estate
- Glass of sparkling wine on arrival
- Explore the 18-acre grounds and learn the history of English wine
- See the Winery and Bottling room and learn about the winemaking process
- Enjoy a tutored tasting of five wines with food tasting plate
- Sample Bolney Gin, made with their own estate-grown grapes
- Tuck into a two-course seasonal buffet lunch of meats, cheeses, salads and more
- Experience gift pack including personalised voucher and message card
What happens on the day?
On arrival at the Bolney Wine Estate, you’ll kick things off with a glass of sparkling wine, before heading out to explore the vineyard with an expert guide. Learn about the history of English wine and how Bolney wines are made, before heading inside the state-of-the-art Winery and Bottling room to learn about the winemaking process.
Enjoy a tutored tasting of five wines matched with a tasting plate, as well as a sample of Bolney Gin, made with estate grown grapes. Afterwards, you’ll take your seats for a two-course seasonal buffet lunch to finish.
Participant guidelines
- Minimum age: 18
- The experience content, equipment used and restrictions may vary
Availability
Your voucher is valid for 12 months from the date of issue.
This experience is available on selected dates throughout the year.
We recommend you book at least four weeks in advance to ensure that dates are available. All bookings are subject to availability.
Please allow approximately 3 hours 30 minutes for the whole experience.
What about insurance?
The centres contracted with us hold public liability insurance. We also hold contingency liability cover. You will not be liable for accidental damage to equipment, except where damage has been caused as a result of recklessness or wilful negligence.
Please ensure you are familiar with the terms and conditions of the experience.
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Jonathan
19/11/2021
Enjoyable vineyard tour and wine tasting
Fun evening with great English wines of all styles with good food to complement. Engaging and informative host friendly staff.
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Di
18/11/2021
Brilliant day
Absolutely amazing day. Really informative tour. And wine tasting was great. Bought some lovely wine and local produce. Thoroughly enjoyable time.
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Carol and Glen
08/09/2021
Excellent Experience!
Really nice way to spend three hours on a Tuesday afternoon! Great wine and food. Lovely setting and hosts. Can’t fault it!
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Jenny
29/08/2021
Great day out
Very interesting day with lovely food and wine. Thanks to Zoe for all her information and help
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Hannah
12/09/2020
Amazing Experience!
We had a lovely afternoon wine tasting at Bolney Estate. Learnt so much about wine making from our wonderful tour guide Zoe. Enjoyed a glass of bubbly when we arrived followed by tasting 5 different wines paired with cheeses. Finished off with a lovely picnic box for lunch looking out over the vineyards. Massively recommend this experience!
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Maria
04/02/2020
Vineyard Tour, Wine Tasting and Lunch for Two
What a fabulous day, especially when greeted by a delicious glass of sparkling white wine. The tour was intimate - 9 people - which gave us the opportunity to ask lots of questions to our Tour Guide, Alan, who was a delight. The vineyard tour was great and we learnt a lot of the process. The tasting of the wines was delicious and lunch was fabulous. We finished it off with a another delicious sparkling pink wine and a tot of the local Bolney Gin. Would love to do this again please
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Irene Wase
04/11/2019
A Wonderful wine Tour
A great tour with a very knowledgable and friendly guide. The wines were fantastic and lunch was basic but very good.
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PMC
07/10/2019
Interesting & informative experience
A very interesting & informative tour, from learning the history of Bolney Wine Estate walking through the grapevines, tasting sessions and then having lunch with some of their wine. Excellent day
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Alayne Hayward-Tapp
27/09/2019
Fab anniversary present!
Had a great day touring the vineyard, tasting the delicious wine and meeting some lovely people. Our tour guide Zoe struck the right balance between information and entertainment and was charming and funny. The wine tastings are generous so if, like most normal people, you don’t spit them out it’s best to arrange for someone else to drive you home!
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Shane
20/07/2019
Lovely experience
Very knowledgeable tour guide, which was very interesting. 5 great wines to taste with different foods and then a delicious lunch. A great birthday treat, would recommend
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Roger
18/07/2019
Excellent day
Guide, extremely good. Wines, extremely good. Food extremely good. Bar prices very expensive: a glass of wine and orange juice £9.50 - too much.
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Gerry
24/06/2019
Great day!
We have a fantastic day. Great tour and even better tasting 😉
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Lesley
26/05/2019
Had a fabulous time
We had such a great time, highly recommend it. The chap who took the tour was so knowledgeable and very interesting to listen to. He also answered all our questions . Venue and surroundings were fabulous all the staff were polite and went out of there way to given us all a great day
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Carla
18/03/2019
Great experience, brilliant choice!
Really enjoyed the experience. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and kept us engaged throughout. The wines were great, as was lunch. Never tried a sparkling red before! Would highlight recommend.
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Bridget Woodcock
21/01/2019
Wine tasting
A very enjoyable day,informative host, super wine and lunch.
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chris trowsdale
21/10/2018
Great day out
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Lisa
06/08/2018
Informative and enjoyable
4 hours of enjoyment. We learnt a lot and enjoyed the food and wines in an amazing setting.
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Sian
03/08/2018
A wonderful experience
The tour was an amazing experience. As well as learning many interesting facts, the wine tasting which was accompanied with food was brilliant. 10/10 from me!
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Ann
22/07/2018
Wonderful Experience
Beautiful setting. Warm friendly greeting! Interesting,informative tour. VERY enjoyable wine tasting paired with well chosen food samples. Delicious lunch. A perfect experience!!
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Geoffrey
14/07/2018
Great Experience
Glass 🍷 of fizz on arrival followed by an indepth tour by the very knowledgeable Daniel. A tasting of 5 ( or was it 6?? 😎) different wines and a lovely gourmet lunch - highly recommended
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Kevin
21/05/2018
What a wonderful place!
this was a birthday gift and what a fantastic gift! The wine is magnificent and the vineyard well presented, staff very accommodating. Lovely food served along with the wine. We had a great day!
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Jane
07/05/2018
Lovely day out at Bolney
My husband and I went on this tour and tasting with lunch after receiving it as a Christmas gift from our son. The tour started with a glass of bubbly and Rebecca gave us an informative and interesting tour of the vineyard and winery. Just long enough. Afterwards we had a tasting of a selection of the Bolney wines with accompanying bites and finally a lovely cold lunch provided by the cafe. It was a great day out and we would go again.
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Martin
29/04/2018
Excellent day in great company
The wine experience was a really interesting day followed by a tasting of excellent wines with yummy cheeses and the chance to meet some lovely people
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Ali
30/11/2017
Delicious, informative and really enjoyable
Good guide, interesting tour even though it was after harvest - perfect day blue sky and crisp, vines were dormant but didn't detract from the morning. Wine and food pairings delicious - highly recommend the tour with lunch, food was great, environment inviting and all staff friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. Will definitely go again - well worth a visit.
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Lloyd
20/11/2017
Good value tour
The tour was very informative with a great guide. Good selection of wines to taste. Lunch was a nice finish to the tour.
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David
13/10/2017
Great Birthday gift
Warm welcome with a glass of their bubbly. Comfortable surroundings, informative tour round the vineyard and processing sheds, followed by sampling and then a relaxed lunch.
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catherine
03/09/2017
Lovely day at winery
This is a professional run event with a good tour guide and lovely food and wine, so much so we will be buying more for our friends. You need a good 3.5 hours and you can hang around afterwords too in their lovely facility. You need a lift home the tastings are generous. We combined this with a stay at the eight bells which is a walk away.
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Christine
20/08/2017
Great day out
Our guide round the Vineyard really knew her stuff and was very informative, the wine tasting was lovely, very delicious wines and the lunch Bolney supplied was delicious. We had a fantastic day out and can highly recommend this experience.
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KLH
09/07/2017
Extremely enjoyable experience!
Truly wonderful experience, our tour guide Rebecca was very nice and extremely knowledgeable. The wine was fantastic and the terrace overlooking the vines was a lovely place to sit in the sun with a glass. The only downside to the entire day, was not getting a glass of wine with our lunch.
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Tim Bidder
05/06/2017
Vineyard Tour, Wine Tasting and Lunch
Set in a lovely location. The staff were friendly and the guide was very knowledgeable about the wine making process and also very informative about the different wines on offer during the tasting. The lunch was simple fare of cheeses and meat followed by chocolate brownie & cream. Opportunity to relax on the cafe veranda overlooking the vineyard whilst enjoying coffee or other offerings. Well worth a visit.
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Juanita
05/04/2017
A wine lovers must!
A fabulous time spent with the very knowledgeable John, our tour co-ordinator for the day, he gave us history about wine in England and at the winery as well as a detailed tour of the estate and wine making process there. This was followed by a wine tasting, with food pairings, and ended with a 2 course lunch (more wine could be purchased to accompany it if you wished). Very friendly staff and beautiful surroundings... the wines pretty great too😁
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Janet
08/11/2016
Really enjoyable experience
This was so much more than I expected. We had a lovely tour guide - Alicia. The whole day was very well run and really interesting. I really learnt a lot. The wines we tasted were delicious.
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Peter
09/10/2016
Vineyard tour and Wine tasting at Bolney Wine Estate
Well this day was a very pleasant surprise, the location was great and it had very good facilities upstairs on the site, the lady who ran the day was extremely knowledgeable and answered everyones questions, I learnt alot about wine making and how complex it all is, we got to taste some of the wines they produce and most were really great, especially their sparkling red! yes I said red, unbelievably good, we would highly recommend this experience to anyone interested in wine.
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Lindsay
04/09/2021
Lovely day out
The visit to the Bolney wine estate was excellent, beautiful surroundings, very friendly and helpful staff, and the wine tasting was interesting and informative. Only negative limited availability when tried to book.
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Kevin
29/08/2019
Guide was very good
The two courses lunch, unless you like tomatoes which was plenty. The rest was little more sparse.
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Dirk & Anita
01/07/2019
Vineyard Tour, Wine Tasting and Lunch
Excellent experience
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Janet
27/05/2019
A lovely treat
My sister and I thoroughly enjoyed our visit and learned a lot about the wine-making process. We very much enjoyed the pre-lunch wine tastings with the sample food matchings and had a nice lunch amongst good company. We really appreciated being reminded just as we were about to leave that we hadn't had the dessert that was included in our package, which we had forgotten about!
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Clarisa
14/10/2018
Informative tour, great lunch,
Good background and history of winemaking in Sussex, England. Informative guide on the winery. Not much of a walk through the vineyard, just standing in front of 1 vine and talking about grafting and water flow and that dry sunny weather is needed. Wine tasting is good, as it was explained about the traditional method vs the 'quicker' method, and we tasted the sparkling red, which was a pleasant surprise! Lunch was healthy and tasty, and enough as there were only 12 of us
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Leticia
24/06/2018
Vineyard Tour in Bolney Wine Estate.
The guide tour was the best part of the visit to Bolney Wine Estate.
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David
07/06/2018
Enjoyable birthday treat
I visited the vineyard 6 years ago and was impressed at the changes made. The tour was interesting and the lunch was good
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Andy
31/05/2018
Great tour
Rebecca, our guide, was both very informative and amusing too. Lots of little anecdotes to break up the detail of how the grapes are grown, harvested and then made into wine. The tasting session was well-introduced with each paired with a food that it complimented. Brief but clear explanations about each was provided.
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su
31/10/2017
wine tasting bolney estate
Very good outing, lasted approx 3 1\2 hours. Sample sizes fairly generous my other half had mine as driving. Lunch very good but not much if you are vegetarian. Makes a very nice gift for a couple, not the sort of thing I would buy for myself.
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Denise
23/07/2017
Great day, but.
My son bought us this wine tasting experience, which on the whole was very good, however it was supposed to come with lunch, around thirty people attended this, which consisted of one bowl of salad, two of couscous, some cheese a tiny bowl of pickle, some slices of salami, and bread. Certainly not enough, as the last few people had hardly anything at all, and then slices of chocolate shortbread. The wines themselves were very good
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Jo
01/05/2017
Very good experience all round
We really enjoyed this experience - only minor quibbles were: tour guide had no microphone, so was battling against noise of wind (when outside) and background cafe noise (when inside); tour started a little late; and one member of staff in cafe was a little rude to someone on the tour (not someone we knew). Lunch was fantastic and the wine tasting was really fun and interesting.
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J
07/04/2019
Mrs
Vineyard talk was ok but not a lot of detail. Relied on questions to give more detailed information. Didn’t see much of the actual place! Not much of a tour. Felt rushed in the building and hearing about the equipment. As there was a large group felt we sat drinking without knowing information. All the wines were lovely and food really tasty. Depending on size of group the experience could be better.
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South East
- Haywards Heath, West Sussex