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2026 harvest in the bag.Cheers to everyone who helped bring it home.
15/10/2026

2026 harvest in the bag.

Cheers to everyone who helped bring it home.

Fruit, glorious fruit! And that’s a wrap on our South Downs harvest 🍇A glorious autumn day to finish the job, with our S...
08/10/2026

Fruit, glorious fruit! And that’s a wrap on our South Downs harvest 🍇

A glorious autumn day to finish the job, with our Sugrue South Downs picking crew joined by some familiar faces from THE PIG.

The final Sussex grapes of the 2026 vintage are in from Alpaca Block, our beautiful vineyard at THE PIG-in the South Downs, planted by Robin Hutson in 2020. It’s fast proving itself a cracking little site for red grapes, with Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir and three precious rows of Gamay thriving here.

Like last year, the Gamay will find its way into Never Mind The Gamay, while the other varieties will end up in Rock Story and Rock Story Rosé – two w**es you can enjoy exclusively across THE PIG Hotel

That’s the South Downs safely tucked up for another year. Roll on the Crouch Valley…

📸 John carey photographer

25/09/2026

It’s been two decades since I planted my first vineyard at Storrington Priory for Sugrue South Downs and to mark the occasion we’ve released this limited edition of The Trouble With Dreams 2020 in magnum.

We only make The Trouble With Dreams in large formats in exceptional vintages and 2020 was certainly one of those. You’ll remember how warm, bright, and seemingly endless that summer was, and we harvested our fruit in near-perfect conditions.

Bottled in July 2021 and aged on its lees for 5 years, the 2020 is a creamy, generous expression of The Trouble With Dreams, with hints of clementine, blossom, and honey.

And like all our magnum releases, its capacity to age is enormous. In 2025, The Trouble With Dreams 2009 in magnum won Best in Show at the Decanter World W**e Awards – a historic first for English w**e. I have just as high hopes for this.

Available to purchase now via our online shop.

Bigger bottles taste better – it’s a fact. Magnums are our favourite format because they age more slowly, developing gre...
23/09/2026

Bigger bottles taste better – it’s a fact. Magnums are our favourite format because they age more slowly, developing greater layers of complexity. They’re also the perfect way to celebrate.

I always knew that Bonkers V2 was a sleeper of a w**e and that it would take time to come around. Now it has, I only wish I’d bottled more in magnum!

Pure, crisp, and deliciously saline, this will make an eye-catching centrepiece on any dinner table, especially around a plate of raw and simply dressed seafood. And like all our magnum releases, its capacity to age is enormous.

200 magnums of Bonkers V2 are being launched to our mailing list on Friday. If you’re not already signed up, hit the link in our bio.

20 years! Blinking flip.In 2006, Twitter was launched, Blair announced he was stepping down, Lordi won Eurovision, Pluto...
21/09/2026

20 years! Blinking flip.

In 2006, Twitter was launched, Blair announced he was stepping down, Lordi won Eurovision, Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, and I planted my first vineyard at the foot of the South Downs at Our Lady of England Priory in Storrington, West Sussex. Quite a bit has happened since, eh?

So last Thursday we kicked off harvest first thing, beating our previous earliest picking date by 12 days, pressed the first of the 2026 grapes in the afternoon (take note: the ripest, cleanest fruit I can remember), and downed tools to gather old, fine friends and some of the baddest bunch in w**e to raise a glass to 20 years of Sugrue.

Officially, it was to launch a special 20th anniversary bottling of The Trouble With Dreams 2020 in magnum – an offer is going out to subscribers next week – but it was also a good excuse to drink some favourites from our increasingly bare library stocks.

Hard miles and good days behind, and hard miles and good days ahead.

The Trouble With Dreams 2022
The Trouble With Dreams 2020 in magnum
The Trouble With Dreams 2010

Cuvée Boz Blanc de Blancs 2020
Cuvée Dr Brendan O’Regan 2018
Cuvée Dr Brendan O’Regan 2016 in magnum

Crouch Valley Chardonnay 2025 barrel sample

Never Mind The Gamay 2025
Crouch Valley Pinot Noir 2022
Crouch Valley Pinot Noir 2024

Richard Corrigan x Mark Hix x Sugrue South Downs Two old friends, two phenomenal chefs, w**e for days, and a Sunday lunc...
09/09/2026

Richard Corrigan x Mark Hix x Sugrue South Downs

Two old friends, two phenomenal chefs, w**e for days, and a Sunday lunch built around some of the best produce these islands have to offer.

Richard Corrigan and Mark Hix joined forces at the w**ery last weekend for our latest Sugrue Sunday and rounded off this year’s series with utter class. Well, of course they did.

THE TROUBLE WITH DREAMS 2022

Isle of Wight tomato salad with Westcombe ricotta and Greek basil
“Hix Smokin’ House” cold smoked trout with Corrigan’s soda bread
Carlingford oysters with gazpacho dressing
BONKERS V2

Ribs of Devon beef cooked over Sugrue vine twigs
SERVED WITH
Tuscan beans
Trill Farm garden salad
NEVER MIND THE GAMAY 2025
CROUCH VALLEY PINOT NOIR 2024

Cardamom, honey and saffron labneh with autumn plums and pistachio biscuits
ROSÉ EX MACHINA 2021

And with that, Sugrue Sundays are over for another year. A huge thank you to every chef, producer, and guest who joined us around the table in 2026.

Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear what we’ve got cooking for 2027!

📸 Sarah Weal Photographer

Missed out on Sugrue Sundays this year? We’ve put together the next best thing.The Sugrue Sundays Case brings together a...
03/09/2026

Missed out on Sugrue Sundays this year? We’ve put together the next best thing.

The Sugrue Sundays Case brings together all six bottles we poured for our guests:

The Trouble With Dreams 2022
Rock Story MV
Rosé Ex Machina 2018
Bonkers V2
Never Mind The Gamay 2025
Precognition Gin

Plus a Sugrue South Downs tote bag and sparkling w**e stopper.

EXCLUSIVE OFFER – SAVE £30

Want the discount code? Comment SUGRUE SUNDAYS below 👇 and we’ll send it to you.

ÂŁ245 (usually ÂŁ275), including free UK delivery.

Available while stocks last.

Not all chefs can write a menu that reads like pure poetry, but Mitch Tonks and Henry Harris do it in their sleep. Last ...
25/08/2026

Not all chefs can write a menu that reads like pure poetry, but Mitch Tonks and Henry Harris do it in their sleep. Last weekend, our Sugrue Sunday guests were treated to a mash-up of seafood with a Mediterranean influence and some unashamedly French cooking - surf and turf South Downs style.

Conversation flowed, plates were mopped clean, bottles were sabraged and glasses were emptied. And that was just the chefs.

Salad of orzo, fennel and spider crab
BONKERS V2

Chargrilled squid and roast chilli dressing
THE TROUBLE WITH DREAMS 2022

Assiette du Bouchon
Quail, Noir de Bigorre boudin, pork collar and lamb chop with Montpellier butter
NEVER MIND THE GAMAY 2025

Raspberry and almond tart, crème fraîche
ROSÉ EX MACHINA 2021

That’s almost it for Sugrue Sundays this year – ping us an email if you’d like to join the waiting list for September. Otherwise, sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about future lunches.

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20/08/2026

2026 has been all over the place: frosts in May, the warmest June on record, the driest July on record, and the vineyards desperately need rain — the vines are extremely stressed. But it’s not all bad news. We’ll make great w**es this year for sure, but volumes will be down, and the cost of production will be very high as a result. Climate chaos – the new normal? Let’s see.

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