Warehorne vineyard tour and tasting
A guided tour and a flight of wines, with cheese or charcuterie boards to add.
Starts Warehorne Vineyard, near Ashford, Kent
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Visiting Warehorne Vineyard
Warehorne is a young vineyard above Romney Marsh near Hamstreet, and it does something most Kent vineyards don’t. It concentrates on still wine, red especially, sold as Oasthouse and including reds from the Swiss grape Divico. The weekend cellar door is a short walk from Ham Street station.
Warehorne at a glance
| Founded | Planted 2020 |
|---|---|
| Known for | English red wines, especially Oasthouse Pinot Noir and Divico |
| Awards | Decanter World Wine Awards Silver (2024) and WineGB Silver for Oasthouse Pinot Noir 2022; Decanter Bronze (2025) for Oasthouse Divico |
| Grapes | Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Gris, Divico and Cabernet Noir |
| Open | Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 5pm |
| Booking | Book tours and tastings online, private visits by email |
| Tours from | £12 tasting, £15 tour and tasting |
| By train | Ham Street, a 10 to 15 minute walk |
Checked on the vineyard’s own website in October 2026.
About Warehorne
The family planted the first 15,000 vines in May 2020 on a slope in Warehorne village that looks south over Romney Marsh. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Gris went in, with some Divico. Then 2,000 Cabernet Noir vines followed in 2021, and 8,000 more Divico in 2022. The vineyard now covers 10.2 hectares.
Friends, volunteers and neighbours helped pick the first harvest by hand in 2022, which came to 9.5 tonnes of grapes. The first vintage went on sale in 2023, the year the cellar door opened, and in 2024 the vineyard turned up on ITV’s Love Your Weekend. The owner, Peter, often takes the tastings himself.
Few English vineyards put red wine first, and Warehorne does. Divico is a disease-resistant Swiss variety bred for cool climates, and it gives deep-coloured reds. The Pinot Noir has done best so far. Oasthouse Pinot Noir 2022 took Silver at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2024 and at the WineGB Awards, and was Highly Commended for Kent Wine of the Year at the Taste of Kent Awards 2024. Oasthouse Divico won Bronze at the Decanter Awards 2025.
The wines
Apart from a single sparkling rosé, everything is still, and all of it comes from the estate’s own fruit under the Oasthouse label. Try the Divico. It’s a full-bodied red with blackcurrant and black cherry, and you won’t find many like it in England. Pinot Noir is the other red, and Estate Red Reserve blends the two, 60% Divico to 40% Pinot Noir. On the lighter side there is Estate White (made from Chardonnay), an Estate Rosé and a Pinot Gris. The Oasthouse Sparkling Rosé, from Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, is made by the Charmat method. Most of the wines are vegan, and bottles run from about £18 to £28. Where to buy them.
Tours and tastings at Warehorne
The cellar door is a weekend affair. Tours and seated tastings are sold through the online shop, but in October 2026 neither had any dates on sale, so email if you want to fix a visit. Private tours are arranged the same way. You can buy wine after a tour or tasting and pick up online orders there too. Look for the vineyard next to Warehorne Oast on Warehorne Road. Coming from Hamstreet, the welcome sign is on the right, and the drive leads to the cellar door. From the vines you look across the marsh towards Dungeness. If you would rather walk, footpaths run up from Hamstreet, which is also the nearest place to eat.
| Experience | Price | Length | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vineyard Tour and Wine Tasting Experience A guided walk round the vineyard, covering how it was set up, the vines and the winemaking, then a flight of the current still wines. This is the one to book if you have the time. | £15 per person | About 1.5 hours | Weekends, book online; no dates were on sale in October 2026 |
| Wine Tasting Experience A seated tasting flight with a host and no vineyard walk. | £12 per person | About 1 hour | Weekends, book online; no dates were on sale in October 2026 |
| Private tour or tasting Private tours and tastings are arranged by emailing tours@warehornevineyard.co.uk. | On request | – | By arrangement |
Book these on the Warehorne website.
Tours that include Warehorne
If you would rather not drive, these tours take you there, with tastings included.
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Tour and tasting at Warehorne
A short tour of a young vineyard on the edge of Romney Marsh, then an hour tasting four of its still wines. Ham Street station is a short walk away.
Good to know Thursday to Sunday, all year, at 11am, 1pm and 3pm, according to the retailer. The vineyard’s own cellar door opens at weekends and it charges £15 a head, but its own vouchers were showing as sold out in October 2026.
Where to stay
The Woolpack Inn
A 16th-century inn on Church Lane, Warehorne, with five adults-only suites and breakfast included.
The White Lion
A Grade II listed pub on Tenterden High Street with oak beams and 14 bedrooms above the bar.
Eastwell Manor, Champneys Hotel & Spa
A manor house hotel and spa in grounds out in the countryside. Rooms in the Manor House have four-poster beds and look over the gardens.
Holiday cottages around Tenterden
Cottages, oasts and barn conversions around Tenterden and the Kent Weald, close to Chapel Down and Gusbourne.
Prices are often the same either way, so compare the booking site with booking direct.
Buy Warehorne wines
None of our wine partners has these wines in stock this week. The vineyard sells them in its own shop, or see our pick of English wines to buy online.
Getting there
Ham Street station is on the Ashford to Hastings line, and from there it is a 10 to 15 minute walk. Change at Ashford International for the high-speed train to London. The whole trip takes about an hour. Drivers coming from Ashford go through Kingsnorth to Hamstreet, turn right at the crossroads opposite the Dukes Head pub towards Warehorne and Woodchurch, and find the vineyard half a mile along Warehorne Road. The what3words address is ///vines.ripples.zaps.
Make a day of it
Gusbourne at Appledore and Chapel Down near Tenterden are both close enough to fit into the same day. Tenterden has a good high street and the Kent and East Sussex Railway, Rye is a short drive south-west, and the Marsh is dotted with medieval churches. For somewhere to stay, the vineyard suggests Romney Marsh Shepherds Huts, Elvey Farm near Pluckley, and Horne’s Oast and Barn near Appledore.
See every vineyard you can visit in our Kent directory. Our other Kent vineyard guides: Chapel Down, Gusbourne, Balfour, Westwell, Silverhand, Domaine Evremond, Chartham, Yotes Court.
Questions people ask
What is Divico?
A disease-resistant red grape from Switzerland, bred for cool climates. Warehorne makes a full-bodied red from it with blackcurrant and black cherry, and blends it with Pinot Noir in the Estate Red Reserve.
Does Warehorne make sparkling wine?
Just one, the Oasthouse Sparkling Rosé, made by the Charmat method. Everything else is still.