Confirm your age
Please verify that you are 18 years of age or older to enter this site.
— Welcome
A year in the life of the estate.
Leonardslee Family Vineyards is more than a place to taste wine it is a working estate that opens its doors throughout the year. Spring brings the gardens into bloom and the vines into bud, summer fills the terraces with long lunches and golden-hour tastings, autumn calls everyone to the harvest, and winter transforms the Grade I listed gardens into the spellbinding Leonardslee Lights trail.
Whatever the season, the calendar below brings together everything taking place across the wine estate at Mannings Heath and the historic Leonardslee Gardens so you can plan a single afternoon or a whole weekend away.
— Spring & Summer
Bloom, bud and long lunches.
As the gardens awaken, the season fills with daytime tastings, vineyard tours and relaxed dining at the Vineyard Kitchen. Sparkling masterclasses run in the Drawing Room, and warm evenings bring golden-hour flights out among the vines.
Sparkling Wine Masterclasses: weekends in the Drawing Room
Guided vineyard tours & tutored tastings: Wed–Sun
— Autumn & Winter
Harvest, fireside and light.
Autumn is the estate’s busiest hour Harvest Week invites guests to pick, press and taste the vintage in the making. As the nights draw in, Leonardslee Lights returns to transform the woodland gardens into a trail of light, sound and spectacle, with mulled wine and estate sparkling in the Village.
- Harvest Week hand-picking, pressing & vintage tastings
- Lights :selected evenings, late Nov to end Dec
- Festive tastings, wreath workshops & Christmas dining.
— On the calendar
What’s coming up next.
01
Sparkling Wine Masterclass
£35 pp45 min The Gardens
From a relaxed lunch among the vines to an exclusive-use weekend, mark the big numbers in a setting as memorable as the year.
02
Guided Vineyard Tour & Tasting
Wed–Sun Wine Estate
Walk the planted blocks with the team who farm them, then taste at the cellar door. Vine to glass in a single afternoon.
03
Vineyard Supper Club
Seasonal Vineyard Kitchen
Long-table dining among the vines, with seasonal plates paired to estate sparkling and Benguela Cove wines from Walker Bay.
04
Harvest Week
Autumn Wine Estate
Join the pick. Hand-harvest the estate, press the first juice and taste the new vintage as it begins its journey to the bottle.
05
Leonardslee Lights
Nov–Dec The Gardens
A gentle, beautiful place to gather and remember private spaces, warm hospitality and the calm of the woodland gardens.
06
Festive Tastings & Dining
December Both Estates
Christmas comes to the estate with festive flights, wreath workshops and seasonal menus at Restaurant Interlude.
The estate, through the year.
From blossom to bottle to the glow of the winter trail moments captured across the seasons.
-
Named among the World’s Best Vineyards 2025 Leonardslee Family Vineyards debuts at No. 56, recognised for excellence in the vineyard, the cellar, and the welcome.
World’s Best Vineyards · 2025
English sparkling wine grown on the ancient Wealden soils of West Sussex. Estate grown, estate made. An award-winning debut in the World's 50 Best Vineyards 2025.
English sparkling wine grown on the ancient Wealden soils of West Sussex. Estate grown, estate made. An award-winning debut in the World's 50 Best Vineyards 2025.