Saturday 13 June: Sessions as 12 noon / 2pm / 4pm
Venue: All Saints Centre, Friars Walk, BN7 2LE
Tickets: £5 – inc. your souvenir WINELANDS 2026 tasting glass
Producers from SIXTEEN amazing Sussex vineyards will be offering tastings, including:
Albourne • Dillons • Kingscote • Mountfield • Mousehall • Nutbourne • Oastbrook • Oxney Organic • Rathfinny • Rowfant • Stopham • Sugrue South Downs • Tinwood • Wildwood • Winklestone • Wiston
Town Mayor Adrian Ross will open the doors at 12 noon for the first tasting session.
Subsequent tasting sessions will commence at 2pm and 4pm
There are 100 tickets for each 90 minute session, over 18s only
Wines may also be purchased directly from the producers
Food by Cheese Please and Rebel Charcuterie
winelands Masterclasses
Saturday 13 June / Lewes Wine Symposium at 32 Lansdown Place, BN7 2JU
There are a limited number of places for Grand Tasting ticket holders to attend a couple of in-depth masterclasses nearby, both illustrated by wine samples
1:30 – 2:30pm Approaches to Sustainability and Social Governance
Chaired by Chris Foss – Founder of Plumpton College Wine Department and Sustainable Wines of Great Britain certification scheme
With panelists from: Albourne / Alison Nightingale • Henners of Herstmonceux / Mike Best MW • Rathfinny Estate / Mark and Sarah Driver • Tinwood Estate / Art Tucker
3:30 – 4:30pm How English Wine Ages
Chaired by Lisse Garnet – Head of Fine Wine at Gorringes of Lewes
With panelists from: Breaky Bottom / Louisa Adams • Nutbourne / Olivia Thomas • Wiston / Kirsty Goring (tbc)
WINELANDS: 8 - 13 June 2026 