We are extremely fortunate to be able to hold the 2023 Somerset AGM at Aldwick Estate by kind permission of the Luck family.  

Aldwick Estate is owned and run by Sandy Luck. Sandy’s family have farmed the estate land for five generations. The farmhouse was built in the 1600s and stands at the heart of an estate of mixed arable and pasture farmland covering 300 acres of the Yeo Valley, at the foot of the beautiful Mendip Hills.

In 2008 the first vines were planted in the Homefield Vineyard in front of the farmhouse, and today Aldwick Estate is Somerset’s largest working vineyard. In an average year around 25 tonnes of grapes are sent from harvest to Mendip winemaker, Steve Brooksbank, who has been responsible for Aldwick Wine ever since the first vintage in 2013.

PROGRAMME

 

2.15pm Registration, tea and coffee

2.45pm AGM

3.00pm Ann Maidment - Director South West

3.05pm Gavin Lane - CLA Vice President

3.30pm Introduction to Aldwick Estate followed by a tour of the Vineyards

5.15pm Drinks and canapés

6.30pm Depart

ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS

 

Aldwick is clearly signposted from the A38. The postcode is BS40 5AL. If using a car satellite navigation system and this code is not recognised the please enter BS40 5RF. This will bring your just short of the estate until you reach the T-junction, turn left and Aldwick Estate is on your left.

 

To Aldwick from Bristol

Leave Bristol on the A38 Southbound past Bristol Airport to Redhill. Go down the hill, take the left turn signposted by the large brown sign marked “Aldwick Estate”. This lane is called Cowslip Green Lane and is just past the “Alvis Bros” Lye Cross Farm Shop on the left. Travel approx. 1 mile down the country lane until you reach the end (a T-junction), Turn left and Aldwick Estate is immediately on the right.

To Aldwick Estate from M5 Southbound

Leave the M5 at Junction 18 “Avonmouth”. Leave Bristol on the A38 Southbound past Bristol Airport to Redhill. Go down the hill, take the left turn signposted by the large brown sign marked “Aldwick Estate”. This lane is called Cowslip Green Lane and is just past the “Alvis Bros” Lye Cross Farm Shop on the left. Travel approx. 1 mile down the country lane until you reach the end (a T-junction), Turn left and Aldwick Estate is immediately on the right.

To Aldwick Estate from M5 Northbound

Leave the M5 at Junction 22. Follow signs to A38 & Bristol Airport. Continue through Churchill over main traffic lights and on for 4 miles. Just past the Holiday Inn take the right turning signposted by the large brown sign marked “Aldwick Estate”. This lane is called Cowslip Green Lane and is just past the “Alvis Bros” Lye Cross Farm Shop on the left. Travel approx. 1 mile down the country lane until you reach the end (a T-junction), Turn left and Aldwick Estate is immediately on the right.

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