An award winning Herefordshire vineyard is throwing open its gates to visitors for a series of ‘Taste of Herefordshire’ tours and tastings as part of English Wine Week next month (Saturday, June 21 to Sunday, June 29, 2025).
Bromsberrow-based Foxbury Fields Vineyard is hosting events to help raise awareness of the county’s wine producers and wine tourism opportunities.
Heather Williamson, who co-founded the vineyard with her partner Richard Baker and is also Hereford-based Wyevale Nurseries’ Chairman, explains: “We’re delighted to be hosting these behind-the-scenes tours during English Wine Week 2025, which is organised by our industry body WineGB, and to give visitors the opportunity to try some of the wonderful wines we make here in Herefordshire.
“English wine is going from strength-to-strength. We’ve had some great production years recently including 2023, which was pretty near perfect in terms of the weather, the harvest and the number of bottles produced. 2024 proved a bit challenging with all the wet weather at the start of the year so it’s going to be interesting to see how we all fare in 2025, especially with the drier start to the year we’ve had so far.”
WineGB’s ‘UK Wine Tourism in 2024 Report’ shows that visits to vineyards and wineries have risen by 55% and that vineyards and wineries are now actively involved in wine tourism.
Heather adds: “We’re very proud of the cultivation, land management and environmental practices we’ve implemented at our vineyard, as well as the award-winning wines we make and we’re looking forward to showing it to anyone who is interested in finding out more.
To enhance the celebrations, English Wine Week is also just after Father’s Day and includes the Summer Solstice, which fall on June 15 and 21 respectively.
