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Organic Wine

Organic is the success story of our time. Wine lovers too, are realizing that drinking Organic wine, especially Local organic wine, is an essential ingredient of a 21st Century eco-friendly lifestyle. Sales of organic food and drink are doubling every 5 years, and currently valued at over £1 billion per year. Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard is delighted and proud to be a part of this positive development. We've been producing organic English wine for over 20 years. We were one of the handful of companies who helped to pioneer organic farming in the UK back in the 1970's. So at Sedlescombe we believe there's more to it than merely having 'organic' on the label. It's about a lifestyle choice with a feel good factor as well as having many other varied benefits:-

Taste
We go to great lengths to ensure that you receive great tasting organic wines, fruit juices, liqueurs and ciders. Hand work on the vines and hand-picking ensures only top quality fruit goes into our products. But the story doesn't end there. It's no use growing top quality fruit and then bashing the goodness out of it. At Sedlescombe we use our expertise in winemaking and processing to apply more gentle traditional methods of juice extraction which retain the full flavour of the fruit. Recent Awards include winner of the Best Dry White award and 3rd best Rosé at the 2004 English Wine Festival, several 'Highly Commended' awards at the English Wine of the Year Competitions in 2004 and 2005. In the 2005 Great Taste awards Sedlescombe achieved 'Silver' with their organic Blackberry and Apple Juice and 'Bronze' with Apple Juice, Grape Liqueur and Apple Wine. Wildlife
The Wildlife Trusts, English Nature, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the National Trust all support an increase in organic farming because of the positive contribution organic farming can make to wildlife and conservation.

Health and the Environment
Organic wine is made from fruit which has been grown and processed without the use of synthetic fertilisers, chemical weedkillers, chemical disease-control sprays, insecticides, growth regulators, flavour-enhancers or genetic engineering.

"I make wines in the traditional way. All the fruit is hand-picked, which means only the best bunches are selected. No mechanical pumps or augurs commonly used elsewhere, which can extract too many astringent phenols (tannins) into the juice, are used." During maturation, minimum interference is the rule. Several additives permitted for ordinary wines are not permitted for organic wines. Even sulphites (added to stop oxidation) have to be kept to less than half the level allowed for non-organic wines. So, here they are! Pure goodness and a full flavour, just as Nature intended!"

Roy Cook (Proprietor and Wine-maker)

Vegetarians and Vegans
Sedlescombe products are suitable for vegetarians (gelatine-free) and Registered with the Vegan Society (no animal derived products).