Kent Wine Tours / About
About us
We are a couple who live in the South East and spend most of our weekends on English wine. Kent is where that started and it is still the county we know best. This site is the list we would give a friend who asked where to go.
Why Kent
More vineyards open to visitors in Kent than almost anywhere else in England. You will find them out west at Westerham and down on the edge of Romney Marsh. Some sit on the chalk of the North Downs, others on the clay and sand of the Weald, and that mix is why the county makes good still whites as well as the sparkling wine it is famous for.
There is plenty of choice. The hard part is working out which place suits the day you want, because a tasting you can walk to from the station is a very different outing from a full tour with lunch. So every tour and vineyard here tells you where it starts, whether you need to book, and how to get there without a car if that can be done.
How we check things
We would rather be right than first, and checking is the part of the job we take most seriously.
- Vineyard details come from the vineyard. We take opening days, prices and what is on offer from each vineyard’s own website, never from a directory or a press release. Each guide carries the date it was last checked.
- We recheck on a rotation, so no entry is more than a season out of date. If something changes, so does the page.
- Tours are checked every week against our booking partners’ live listings, which keeps prices, ratings and meeting points current. A tour that is withdrawn comes off the site straight away. Leaving it up would only disappoint someone.
- We say when we are unsure. Some vineyards are vague about their own arrangements, and when that happens we tell you rather than guess.
How we are paid, and what that does not buy
Book a tour through one of our links and the company you book with pays us a small commission. You pay the same price as you would going direct, and we never add a booking fee.
Nobody pays to be included, and nobody can. A vineyard cannot buy its way on to these pages or into a kinder write-up. Plenty of the vineyards we list earn us nothing at all, and we include them anyway because the list would be worse without them.
You should be able to tell when a link earns us something. Booking links are marked, and before you leave the site you get a short page saying where you are being sent.
Tell us when we are wrong
If a detail here is out of date, or your vineyard is missing, we want to hear about it. Email info@kentwinetours.com and we will put it right.
We also run English Wine Tours, which covers Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and the rest of England and Wales.