Glebe House is an old Georgian Vicarage situated on a hilltop in East Devon. Good friends of Castlewood, Hugo, Olive and David pride themselves in their farm-to-table Restaurant and Guest House. Sourcing ingredients from their own small-holding and from friends and farming in the surrounding valleys.

Glebe will be serving mackerel sliders and seasonal treats from their larder and kitchen garden.

Soulshine is a Restaurant and Cafe in Bridport producing locally sourced food for breakfast lunch and dinner, our own roasted coffee, a retail shop, takeaway counter and outdoor dining space. Run and owned by friends and former River Cottage colleagues, Joel and Andy are taking the place to new and delicious heights.

Soulshine will be not only cooking a range of tasty treats from their restaurant menu but also offering breakfast on Sunday morning featuring their infamous sourdough with all the breakfast trimmings!

These guys know how to cook pizza! Local and good friends of Castlewood Wine Festival, the Rebel Town Pizza boys used to bring their pizza oven to the festival on a JCB! They now have a more transportable version, designed and built with festivals in mind. Their authentic home-made clay oven reaches temperatures in excess of 800degrees, enabling them to cook a pizza in less than 90seconds. The extreme heat produces a crispy base but with a light fluffy texture on the inside.

Rebel Town Pizza produce all their own dough, hand stretching and throwing each individual base to create a traditional thin crust pizza. Carefully selecting only the finest of ingredients for homemade pizza sauces that are simply irresistible. Looking forward to seeing them in action!

Tom's Lyme Regis is a refined multi award winning restaurant dedicated to showcasing stunning seafood and great local produce.

‘On Tour’ Tom’s will be bringing the freshest most sumptuous lobster, crab and hand dived scallops to Castlewood.

They say what’s grown together eats together. Given we’re just a stone’s throw from the coast, our wines pair so wonderfully with Lyme Bay’s latest catch!

We’ll be BBQ’ing our very own pasture-fed beef.

Every member of our Aberdeen Angus herd is born and raised here on the farm, nourished on herb-rich pasture grown from our own fields, and cared for with the utmost attention and respect.

Aberdeen Angus are renowned for their marbling, tenderness and exceptional flavour.

Goose & Badger are a micro coffee roastery based in Bridport, Dorset. Focussing on roasting an everchanging selection of delicious speciality coffees.

Their trailer will be situated near the Brewery Stage and will be providing the caffeine we all need throughout the day. They will also be assisting Soulshine with breakfast offerings on Sunday morning for all the weary heads!

Emese is a chef and pastry chef with over 20 years of experience. Originally from Hungary, her culinary journey took her through Austria and Germany before she moved to the UK over 13 years ago. She spent around eight and a half years with the Home Grown Hotels group, working across several roles and locations including Lime Wood in the New Forest and Bath. Emese later went on to spend six years as Head Pastry Chef at The Pig at Combe.

She has more recently taken on the role of Head Chef at River Cottage, we are thrilled she will be able to join us with her amazing selection of baked treats on the day.

This year we will be drinking Castlewood from a multiple of vintages.

Sparkling wines from ‘20 ‘21 and ‘22 and a recent release of our Brut Nature which was last produced in 2018.

There will also be some new still wines from our ‘Two Winters’ range featuring 100% barrel aged Chardonnay from 2023 and a unique barrel aged Classic Cuvée from the amazing 2020 vintage.

All Castlewood wines will be available by the glass as well as by the bottle.

Artefact began with one goal - to leave all preconceptions about wine behind.

In the summer of 2019 three mates from East Devon, Rob Corbett, Luke Harbor and Tommy Gillard, came together with the idea of making a wine that captured the feeling of a year - unconventional, memorable, surprising.

We knew that to create something unique, we had to work in a unique way. And so, two clay Tuscan Amphorae were sourced… and experimentation began.

Now, every vintage, Artefact evolves. Each year brings different varieties, winemaking techniques and of course, the artwork on every bottle. 

Artefact will also be releasing some new wines in addition to their iconic ‘A Moment in Wine’. They promise to be full of intrigue and certainly far from mainstream, exciting!

Offbeat Wines was established with a simple aim – to produce pure, unadulterated and enjoyable English wines.


Based in Salisbury, Daniel Ham works with small growers who take a considerate approach in the vineyard, avoiding the use of synthetic chemicals and doing the majority of work by hand. The journey from grape to glass is also kept as simple as possible, employing age-old winemaking techniques and minimising inputs. All wines are fermented spontaneously, never fined or filtered.

While most UK estates look to Reims and Epernay for inspiration Danbury directed its focus towards grower wines and smaller domaines.

Regarded as one of the best wine producers in the UK we are so fortunate to have secured an allocation of their 2021 Chardonnay for this year’s festival.

Danbury Ridge, located in the Crouch Valley, Essex is bottling wines that critics have already favourably compared to some of the finest addresses in the world.

Swanaford Estate is a small, family vineyard hand-crafting superb sparkling and still wines on south east-facing slopes of the Teign Valley, six miles to the south west of Exeter. 

We’ll be showcasing their Estate White, a crisp, fresh and fruity wine, aromatic and dry. Made from a blend of Siegerrebe and Schonberger grapes, it has hints of lychee, passion fruit and peaches.

Good friends of Castlewood Vineyard, Dalwood Vineyard are just a stone’s throw away, in a neighbouring village. Growing a selection of both still and sparkling wine varieties, Dalwood Vineyard are in their 15th year of production. Comprising of a group of 4 friends, all brimming with community spirit. Dalwood vineyard will be showcasing their newly released 2024 still wine.

Sandridge Barton’s history stretches back over 40 years, being one of the earliest pioneers of the English wine industry. Formerly Sharpham Wine, a new vineyard was planted just 3km down river in 2008.

The vineyard boasts breath-taking views across the Dart Valley, benefitting from the warming influence of the tidal river. In 2020 a state of the art winery was purpose built. Proudly employing both modern and traditional approaches, they are now fermenting nearly all their wines with indigenous yeast.

Relentlessly driven by the potential of what our industry can achieve, Lyme Bay strive to make the best wine, from the best grapes, from the best growers.

Grapes are selected from growers from across the country. The wines they craft reflect a natural affinity to the south west’s renowned fish dishes and coastal vistas, both in style and character. The result; a range of still and sparkling English Wines that have captured the imagination of many and achieved incredible international award success.

A full selection of Lyme Bay’s wines will be available both by the glass and bottle.

Brindiwell is a boutique, sustainably focused English vineyard in Crediton, Devon, founded in 2017 by husband-and-wife team Jo and James Matyear. Specializing in Pinot grape varieties, they hand-tend over 10,000 vines planted in 2019, focusing on minimal-intervention methods and biodiversity, including planting over 1,000 native trees.

We’ll be showcasing their still Rosé

Nutbourne is a single estate vineyard and winery in West Sussex, producing a range of award winning still and sparkling wines. Every part of their growing and winemaking takes place at their farm, where wines are served at the Cellar Door.

Nutbourne also have their own ‘Local and Wild’ restaurants throughout London as well, we’re thrilled to be bringing their Sussex Wines to the Devon countryside.

Otter Brewery sits up high in the Blackdown Hills. Their thatched farmhouse at the heart of the brewery dates back to 1806 and the water used for brewing is drawn directly from the head springs of the River Otter. We’ll be serving a selection of their cask ales, including the ever popular Otter Amber.

Harry’s cider farm is situated right in the heart of Somerset cider country. There’ll be a range of their bottled cider including Harry’s Original, Dabinett & Applemoor.

Cider has been made at Burrow Hill for over 300 years and their Cider Brandy for over 30 years.

The Temperley family’s vision long term is to be sustainable and small, protecting their farm’s unique and bio diverse environment through regenerative farming. Both Burrow Hill and Cider Bus sparkling ciders will be available.

Polly Hilton of Find & Foster’s aim is to reveal the quality potential of old orchards that we foster in Devon, while cultivating, nurturing and encouraging them to thrive. At Find & Foster they work with farmers to help breathe life back into moribund orchards on their farms; to prevent further decline and the extinction of important local apple varieties.

There will be a selection of Find & Foster’s current releases of both Methode Traditionelle and Pet Nat ciders available buy the bottle.

We’re excited to welcome Gilt & Flint to the festival this year. Based out of Haye Farm in East Devon, their organic brewhouse shares the land with a joyful group of young female pigs (known as gilts) who inspire their distinctive Janus head logo.

Rooted in the ancient craft of brewing and guided by a circular, sustainable ethos that honours the flint fields of East Devon, Gilt & Flint create award-winning organic beers designed to delight the senses.

Be sure to seek them out, explore their seasonal releases, discover their small-batch specials, and savour these beautifully crafted beers for yourself.