Welcome to Pebblebed
TOPSHAM WINE CELLAR
Summer Opening
Thursday Friday and Saturday Evenings - 5:30pm till 10pm and Saturday Lunchtimes 11am till 2pm - our usual wine tasting/drinking! and tapas -. no booking required but if you are a large group please email and we will try and reserve tables.
Vineyard and Winery Tours
Vineyard Tours have now started on Thursday evenings at 4pm and Saturdays at 11am and 3pm - please see Tours page for details and online booking - if large group (>10 people) we can do individual tours at different times - please contact geoff@pebblebed.co.uk.
Wine Tasting - Eastern European Wines - Thursday 27th June
Another special wine tasting by Andy McClaren - start 7:30pm - £20 per head - limited places - please book on line or pay in the cellar - it will sell out early!
Exeter Food Festival -What a fab weekend - we had our old french van serving Devons finest Fizz and Bigbury Bay had their usual beautiful oysters. This is our eighth year at the festival and it was great to see lots of old friends and meet many new ones - thanks for tasting and drinking Pebblebed - a big thanks also to chef Michael Caines and the Festival Committee who pulled off another great festival! - see you next year!
DECANTER MAGAZINE - ENGLISH SPARKLING TASTING - Decanter the world respected wine magazine recently held a tasting of the top English Sparkling wines and we are delighted that both our Sparkling White and Sparkling Rose have done very well - both being recommended by the magazine.
RIOJA WINE TASTING - FRIDAY 3RD MAY , 7:30pm @ PEBBLEBED TOPSHAM CELLAR - sorry fully booked.
Andy McClaren will be once again taking us through the great wines of Rioja - tickets £20 to include wines and tapas - available on our website or come into the Cellar
GIFTS & PRESENTS! - WINE TASTING VOUCHERS
Our wine tasting vouchers seem to be going very well as presents - available from £30 for two people - please click on the box to the left and down for more information. Vouchers are sent out with one of our information vineyard brochures by first class post. Alternatively pick up from the cellar.
NEXT FOOD FESTIVAL EVENT - Tiverton Baloon Festival - 12th to 14th July 2013 - we will have our classic van at the show toasting the balloons as they take off - should be a great weekend.
FACEBOOK - NEW PAGE for vineyard, winery and cellar news and events please click here to go to the page and then "like" the page if you are on Facebook - thanks
HARVEST - all finished - phew!
Thanks to everybody who have helped or provided encouragment in what has been a difficult agricultural year! In the end we were very pleased with the quality and a reasonble quantity of grapes from 2012 - look forward to tasting the vintage next year for the first time from our own winery!
NEW WINERY COMPLETE - our new winery is now complete and the new wines are maturing nicely!- the winery is "Carbon Neutral" with water from our own borehole and non fossil fuel heating and electric.
PEBBLEBED 2011 WINES
We have now released our 2011 white and red - Really pleased with both wines. The red is 75% pinot noir and has a fantastic nose - we are getting some fantastic feedback - We will release our 2011 rose in April.
Also our sparkling wines are drinking very well! - according to Suzy Atkins (Telegraph wine correspondent).
DRAGONS DEN PROJECT - PEBBLEBED PARTNER VINEYARDS
New vineyard is coming on well - many of the vines are "out" of the vine tubes and the sown clover sword is now established. Posts and wire are now completed - only 24 months until the first grapes! If you are interested in joining inthis project please contact geoff@pebblebed.co.uk.
PEBBLEBEDS NEW WINERY - NATURAL WINE PRODUCTION!
We feel extremely lucky to have been able to acquire Marianne Pool Farm adjacent to our Clyst St George Vineyard. Wine tanks now stand in the old diary and the 2012 wines are maturing well. - more information
International Vineyard "twinning" project
We are progressing an idea to have an informal connection with a traditional vineyard in each of the wine growing areas of the world - This has come out of having had visits and wine tastings from a number of tradtional wine makers from around the world over the last few years in our Topsham Cellar - the idea being our "friends of Pebblebed/club Vino" members will get a warm welcome when visiting abroad and vice versa! Perhaps exchanging wines and having tastings of wines with a "story"!
We hope to explore this further over the next few months.
Introduction to Pebblebed
Pebblebed Vineyards are located near Topsham, Exeter in Devon in South West England. Our producing vineyards are managed in an environmentally sensitive way and our wines regularly win awards in national and regional competitions. We have a tasting cellar near the quay in Topsham which welcomes people to try Pebblebed wines and a range of Devon and imported wines and local tapas. From the start we have very much enjoyed sharing our passion for growing grapes and making wine in Devon and we hope the information on the following pages is of interest. Please do contact us if you need any further information. contact
STOP PRESS! - Devon rose wines beat Loire wines in competition - Pebblebed comes joint top! Full details under Pebblebed information -look left and down.
The Wine Pantry in Borough Market in London is kindly stocking our wines - fantastic spot to sample some of the best English wines!
Our Sparkling Rose was featured on Market Kitchen TV program recommended by Chef Michael Caines. Also recommended in the Sunday Times Style Magazine wine column.
HEN PARTIES/MOTHERS DAY/ WEDDING GIFTS/ BIRTHDAYS/ RETIREMENT PRESENTS - SPECIAL EVENTS - WINE TASTING VOUCHERS/ ADOPT A VINE OR ROW AND OTHER GIFTS - Please see our "buy wine and gifts" page for some interesting ideas including wine tasting vouchers £40 and "adopt a vine" gift package from £55
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