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As well as producing multi-Gold-award-winning English sparkling wine, the gardens at High Clandon Estate Vineyard offer panoramic views of the Surrey Hills across sweeps of lawn and wafting meadow flowers

- Leigh Clapp

Home to Sibylla and Bruce Tindale since 2004, the gardens complement the beauty of the twelve-acre setting with its vistas across rolling countryside and their award-winning High Clandon Estate Vineyard.

“There was no garden when we moved here, just some very beautiful grassy horse paddocks framed by our lovely views and trees. There was one lovely climbing pink rose bush alongside the stable block and it is still there and delights me that it is from the ‘old’ establishment...a link with the farm’s former self. I discovered we were on solid chalk, the perfect terroir for great wines but not gardens, when I tried to dig to plant shrubs to start a few borders off. Since then it has been a case of pick axe and mulch by the ton to improve the soil and create the gardens. Garden centres still rub hands in glee at the amount of stable manure we buy,” smiles Sibylla.