The Kent wine trail
Three routes round Kent’s vineyards, one of them out to Canterbury, and which stops to book ahead.
Read the trail guideKent Wine Tours / Guides
Plan your visit
Guides
Help with planning a day at the vineyards, getting there by train, and picking a tour or a present.
Our guides
Wine tour gift ideas
Tastings from about £25 up to private days for groups, with full days out from London and Brighton in between. We also cover how to wrap one up as a present.
Read the gift guideWine tasting in Kent
Walk-in flights and tutored tastings at Kent vineyards, what they cost, and which ones need booking.
Read the tasting guideKent vineyards by train
The nearest station to each vineyard and how long it takes from London. We also say whether you can walk from the platform or will want a taxi.
Read the train guideHow much does a Kent wine tour cost?
A tasting, a day tour from London or Brighton and a private tour side by side, with the extras people forget to budget for.
Read the price guideHen parties and group days
How to organise a vineyard day for friends or colleagues, and the things that tend to go wrong.
Read the groups guideThe Wealden Wine Trail
Sixteen vineyards in East Sussex, starting near Tunbridge Wells and running down to the coast. It lives on our sister site, English Wine Tours.
Read the trail guideWhat’s on at Kent vineyards
Christmas fairs, wine dinners, tastings and workshops, listed by month with a calendar and a map.
See the eventsTours by area
Kent
Day trips out of London, and single tastings you book at the vineyard.
Kent wine toursSussex
Tours from London, Brighton and Horsham.
Sussex wine toursSurrey
Denbies and the Surrey Hills.
Surrey wine toursPrivate tours
Your own driver and guide for the day.
Private wine toursWhere to start
- A day out from LondonKent is the easiest wine county to reach by train. Kent vineyards by train gives the nearest station for each estate, and our Kent tours include day trips with transport from London.
- Working out the budgetWhat a Kent wine tour costs compares a tasting at the vineyard, a day tour and a private tour, with the extras worth allowing for.
- A weekend in KentThe Kent wine trail sets out three routes, and our maps of the Weald, the North Downs and Canterbury and west Kent show every vineyard with places to stay nearby.
- A present or a group daySee wine tour gift ideas for vouchers and tours to give, and hen parties and group days or private tours for a group of your own.
Our Kent vineyard guides
Full guides to the Kent estates people visit most. Each one has opening times, the tours and tastings you can book direct, how to get there, food, places to stay and the wines worth buying. Every one of the Kent vineyards open to visitors is on our map.
- Chapel DownTenterden, in the Weald. Vines first planted in 1977, traditional-method sparkling wine, the Kit’s Coty Collection and still Bacchus.
- GusbourneAppledore, by Romney Marsh. Planted 2004, vintage sparkling wine from its own grapes, tastings at The Nest.
- BalfourHush Heath, near Staplehurst. Planted 2002, home of Balfour Brut Rosé, with a free weekend shuttle from Marden station.
- WestwellCharing, one stop from Ashford. Ortega, pet nats and amphora wines from an experimental winery.
- WarehorneAbove Romney Marsh, a short walk from Ham Street station. A young vineyard planted in 2020, unusual for its reds.
- SilverhandLuddesdown, near Gravesend. Organic still wines and Silver Reign sparkling, just over a mile from Sole Street station.
For Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, including Nyetimber, Rathfinny, Denbies and Hambledon, see the guides on our sister site, English Wine Tours.
How we put these guides together
We are an independent guide. Each vineyard guide is checked against the estate’s own website and shows the date we last did it. Tour prices and availability get checked every week, and a tour that stops running comes off the site.
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