Stanlake Park Wine Estate

Stanlake Park Wine Estate is the largest vineyard in the English county of Berkshire.[1] It is situated near to Twyford, in the parishes of Hurst and Ruscombe.[2]

Vineyard and winery

The vineyard has some 30,000 vines on 25 acres (100,000 m2) and around a dozen different varieties of wine are made, as well as two liqueurs.[3] The winery also makes wine for many other English vineyards and during a high yield year, the estate processes between 150 and 200 tons of grapes.[4] It was originally known as Thames Valley Vineyards and was first planted in 1979, by Jon. S.E Leighton,[5] a later life Viticulturist, educated externally by Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW. Australia.

Country house
Stanlake Park manor house

Stanlake Park has a 16th-century Elizabethan country house at the centre of the estate.[6] It is the manor house of Hinton Pipard.[7] It was built by the Aldworth family, who lived there before becoming Barons Braybrooke and moving to Billingbear House.[8] They fought for Charles I during the English Civil War and, in 1646, Richard Aldworth founded Reading Blue Coat School.[9]

References
  1. http://www.eatmytown.co.uk/Enjoy_award_winning_Thames_Valley_wines_in_English_Wine_Week.html
  2. http://forebears.co.uk/england/berkshire/ruscombe#historicalDescriptions
  3. http://www.wineeducators.com/awe%20inspiring%20news/eNovember%202008d%20gf3213fd13d2h1fg5h4.htm#Stanlake
  4. http://www.stanlakepark.com/about_us/stanlake_park_today
  5. http://www.stanlakepark.com/about_us/our_history
  6. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43213
  7. http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/moated_manors.html
  8. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=005-neville&cid=-1#-1
  9. http://ourportal.rbcs.org.uk/Docs/Pages/AldworthHouse.aspx


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