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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.

£245 (usually £275), including free UK delivery.

Available while stocks 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.

16/08/2026

Last weekend saw us eating and drinking ridiculously well (👀➡️ swipe to see a three-handed menu of dreams and some killer library w**es from our cellar) all in the name of the brilliant charity that is

Enormous thanks to the legends that are Angela Hartnett, Luke Holder, and Jess Filbey (Theo Randall you were much missed 🫡 ) for giving up their valuable Sunday time and cooking up a storm for us.

And credit must be also given to all our wonderful guests, without whose support and generosity this event couldn’t have happened. Thank you.

Do check out Action Against Hunger who are doing peerless work across 57+ countries, saving lives by preventing world hunger and giving committed access to the essential aid they need. Any support is gratefully received.

02/08/2026

I don’t know how you lot are keeping refreshed in this heat, but we’re sticking this on ice and doing little else.

It’s always a bit nerve-racking sending new w**es into the world to fend for themselves, but Never Mind The Gamay is out and the first reviews are in:

“[A] deliciously smashable, light-bodied, crunchy cuvée. Lightly chilled, it was absolutely the canine’s cojones with a barbecued chicken and roast carrots with salsa macha on a hot summer’s evening.” From the Queen of Gamay Natasha Hughes herself.

But, come now, have YOU tasted Never Mind The Gamay yet? And if not, why not?! Thoughts by email, SMS, pigeon, or below 👇 when you do, please!

📸 Sarah Weal Photographer

19/07/2026

Never Mind The Gamay

Over a decade ago, legendary hop-turned-grape grower Chris Nichols and I planted a field in Kent with Pinot Meunier. The fruit from this vineyard has always been sensational, but in 2025 – a once-in-a-generation, ‘unicorn’ vintage for England – it was so outrageously ripe that I knew it could only be destined for life as a still red w**e.

While it fermented as whole bunches, we garnished it with Gamay (a variety rarely seen in the UK) from Alpaca Block, our vineyard planted by Robin Hutson at The PIG-in the South Downs in 2020, before ageing it all in French and American oak barrels, large and small. It was so aromatic and so immediately delicious that we bottled it after just four months.

Twenty years ago, I’d never have believed we could make w**es like this in England: lip smacking and generously fruity, I’m reminded of those juicy, medium-bodied Loire Valley and Cru Beaujolais reds served with a light chill that slip down all too easily as the dog days of summer roll into autumn.

Never Mind The Gamay. Here’s The Pinot Meunier. Available now, exclusively via our website.

Anarchy in the South Downs.

11/07/2026

We make w**e and occasionally it ends up in rather extraordinary places.

This week we were incredibly honoured for Rock Story to be chosen as the w**e to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, celebrating the enduring friendship between the UK and the USA at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) 🇬🇧🥂🇺🇸

We poured, Angela Hartnett cooked, and Katherine Jenkins sang. Not a bad way to spend an evening. Here’s to the next 250!

📸 Isaac Atkin Mayne

28/06/2026

We ❤️ Angela Hartnett and we ❤️ Sugrue Sundays! A big, big thank you to Angela and her head chef Piero Tiddia, as well as all our guests, for braving the heat and dodging road closures to join us last weekend on the Costa del South Downs.

To pull off a belter of a menu like this on one of the hottest days of the year with little more than two charcoal grills was nothing short of genius:
Cod fritters & arancini
Focaccia & carta di musica
Salumi, olives & roasted aubergine
Tomato salad, tonnato sauce & Ortiz anchovies
Roasted veal loin, green beans and hazelnut salad, Parmigiano Reggiano cream
Apricot & almond tart, Madagascan vanilla cream

Aa for the booze, we poured the last of the Bee Tree by Sugrue Pinot Meunier 2019, the first of the newly launched The Trouble With Dreams 2022, old favourite Bonkers V2, a sneak peak of the 2024 Crouch Valley Pinot Noir, AND ended with 2021 Rosé Ex Machina, which rarely sees the light of day.

If you missed out (sorry!) and haven’t been to Angela’s restaurants Murano (@ muranolondon), Café Murano (Cafe Murano), or HH&Co at Lime Wood (Lime Wood) then get booking sharpish. Even if you have, get booking again sharpish. They’re our favourites for good reason.

If you’d like to be added to the waiting lists for the remaining Sugrue Sundays this year, do get in touch in the usual way. Oh and more events wjll be announced soon via the mailing list…

📸 Sarah Weal Photographer

21/06/2026

The Trouble With Dreams 2022

20 YEARS, 13 VINTAGES, 1 DREAM

We have a great deal planned to celebrate Sugrue South Downs’ 20th anniversary in 2026, but this year’s release of The Trouble With Dreams was always destined to be something special.

When I planted my first vineyard at Storrington Priory in 2006, I had a single ambition: to create a truly world-class sparkling w**e grown on South Downs chalk, inspired by the great grower Ch*****nes of the Côte des Blancs, but unmistakably English in character.

It may have taken us 20 years and 13 vintages, but dreams do come true.

The 2022 growing season was extraordinary. The UK experienced its warmest year on record, with temperatures exceeding 40°C for the first time in meteorological history. Yet, our old, deep-rooted vines – now averaging 17 years across our South Downs vineyards – were able to access sufficient water through the drought, producing fruit of remarkable balance and concentration.

The resulting base w**es were forward and complex, with the structure to benefit from some younger French oak barriques in addition to older, larger demi-muids. Thanks to the ripeness of the vintage, we were able to avoid malolactic fermentation entirely and disgorge with a low dosage of just 6g/L.

The Trouble With Dreams 2022 is open, bright, textural, salty, and electric, and speaks entirely of its place, its vintage, and its w**emaker – just as I dreamt all those years ago.

16/06/2026

The Crouch Valley is no more the new Burgundy than the South Downs is the new Ch*****ne. Similarities abound, but let’s allow each region to exist for itself. Discuss.

HOWEVER – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – for me the Crouch Valley IS the most exciting emerging w**e region in the world, which is why we’re now firmly planting our flag in Essex and working closely with a handful of exceptional farmers with deep roots growing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir for our still w**e projects.

While the super-ripe 2022 Crouch Valley Pinot Noir came entirely from Mason’s Point Vineyard, our intensely perfumed and beautifully elegant 2024 is a ‘village’ blend from Mason’s Point, Martin’s Lane, and Crows Lane, and is due to be released later in the autumn.

We’ll also be putting top-quality fruit from Coggeshall, South Bank, Althorne, and Creeksea vineyards to good use. But much more on that later… Either way, remember all these names – they are the future! And, my, is it bright.

🗺️ Diane Shearer

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