The Vineyard History

Wraxall Vineyard was planted in 1974 and during the 1980s won the South West Vineyard of the year award.

Sadly by the mid 1990s the vineyard began to fall into disrepair and became home to twelve foot brambles, deer, foxes and rabbits.

All of the original plantings, with the exception of the Madeleine Angevine were lost. Brian Shirley and Jacky Brayton bought the vineyard in 2007 and in the next two years set about restoring the vineyard, and it is now back on track to becoming Somerset’s premier vineyard.