One of the leading producers of English sparkling wine, Langham Wine Estate has been named The Real Review Winery of the Year Great Britain 2024, coming out on top of a host of highly prestigious competitors.

Now in its fourth year, The Real Review received a record number of entries from a record number of wineries for its Top Wineries of Great Britain. Over 10,000 wines were blind tasted by an expert panel of internationally renowned wine writers, including award-winning wine writer and contributor Anthony Rose. Langham Wine Estate was in competition with wineries consistently producing wines of outstanding quality, a requirement for those awarded The Real Review Top Wineries Certificate.

Head winemaker, Tommy Grimshaw has been a driving force for Langham Wine Estate over the past four years. Under his creative and forward-thinking leadership, Langham has risen to the ‘top 14% of Great Britain’s wine producers’, according to The Real Review. 

Tommy adds, “It is always a great lift for the team when we are recognised by The Real Review. To be named their Winery of the Year Great Britain 2024 is even better! This award backs up the WineGB award earlier in the year for Winery of the Year 2024 and shows that we must be doing something right. We want our Dorset winery to the forefront of the English wine scene, so we are always looking to build on achievements like this.”

Tommy is not your traditional winemaker, having worked his way up from labelling wine when he left school after his first year of A Levels, he broke new ground by becoming the UK’s youngest head winemaker when he was just 24 years old. Now 28, he continually strives to be creative in his winemaking, not bound by technical ‘rules’ with a focus on a low intervention approach, and the results he achieves are outstanding. 

Langham Wine Estate has been lauded by The Real Review for producing “some of the most expressive, high quality sparkling wines in the country, which highlighted the chardonnay-based Corallian Classic Cuvée NV and the pinot noir-based Culver Classic Cuvée NV both stand-out cuvées in a stand-out range.”

This latest accolade adds to a number of prestigious awards received by the Dorset-based winery and vineyard in 2024. At the WineGB Awards, Langham Wine Estate took home an impressive four trophies, including ‘Best NV/MV Classic Cuvée’ for its Corallian Classic Cuvée NV, ‘Best Blanc de Noirs’ and ‘Wessex Trophy’ for its Pinot Noir 2019, and the strength of the range contributed to it being awarded ‘Best Estate Winery’.

In 2020, Langham Wine Estate won the coveted Best Sparkling Wine Producer at the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC), beating some of the best French champagne houses and sparkling wine producers from around the rest of the world. 

Located in the beautiful Dorset countryside, Langham Wine Estate is a single vineyard estate taking the greatest care and pride in their craft. The winery hand harvest their fruit and take a low intervention approach to wine-making, with all of their wines both vegan and vegetarian friendly. With a south-facing aspect, chalk soils and a unique microclimate, the vineyard spans 85 acres and provides the perfect terroir for ripening the classic Champagne varieties – Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.

Langham’s award-winning range of wines is now exclusively distributed by Liberty Wines, one of the UK’s leading wine distributors. For trade enquiries, please email sales@langhamwine.co.uk. 

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Notes to editors:

Recent accolades for Langham Wine Estate

  • WineGB Awards 2024 – Langham’s Corallian Classic Cuvée NV was named ‘Best NV/MV Classic Cuvée’, its Pinot Noir 2019 won ‘Best Blanc de Noirs’ and the ‘Wessex Trophy’ while the strength of the range contributed to it being awarded ‘Best Estate Winery’. Corallian Classic Cuvée NV, Culver Classic Cuvée NV, Rosé NV, Blanc de Blancs NV and Pinot Noir 2019 also received gold medals, and its limited edition still Chardonnay, Search for Enlightenment 2022, earned a silver medal. 
  • Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) 2024 – Silver medals were awarded to Langham’s Corallian Classic Cuvée NV, Culver Classic Cuvée NV, Blanc de Blancs NV and Pinot Noir 2019, whilst a bronze medal went to Langham’s Rosé NV.
  • Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) 2024 – Awarded two Golds for Langham’s Corallian Classic Cuvée NV and Blanc de Blancs and two Silvers for its Rosé and Culver Classic Cuvée NV.