Biddenden Vineyards — Attraction in Ashford

Firstly I’d like to say that I’m an amateur wine fanatic. I live locally in Kent and like to support local business including vineyards. Today our family of 4 plus dog drove over to visit Biddenden vineyard on a lovely day. The vineyard itself is beautiful. I paid for the self guided walk and tasting after. Before we managed to start the walk we were told we couldn’t take our dog on a lead onto the walk around the vineyards. Hence not wanting to be split up and also leave our dog in the car on a hot day…had to be refunded. I then asked why we couldn’t take our dog (we spend many days walking through vineyards on local footpaths and at other vineyards so couldn’t really understand). I was told it was due to Covid and the fact there are staff working in the vineyards….really?? Covid? Why does everyone use that excuse? Multitudes of animals including foxes/badgers/rats/mice etc use our natural habitat. Why are dog owners who control their dog and clear up responsibly turned away? We fully planned to spend a good amount on wine after the tasting also. Clearly the vineyard is too successful and doesn’t need the trade! We can’t comment on the wine as we’re not able to taste it unfortunately. Really disappointing visit. Think you guys should rethink this. We will definitely not be the only ones...

This a good place for an easy walk around the vineyard. You pay for the walk then get a free wine tasting of 3 wines per person. So we had 6 wines, equivalent of a glass of wine each and a walk for £10 per person. The wine tasting is well organised but it was a hot day and their fridge could not keep up with the demand, so the wines were not chilled enough which rather spoiled it (hence only 4 stars). We very much liked their still pink (rose) wine and the sweet pudding wine was exceptionally good, however all the wines are expensive compared to EU wines (double the price of decent rose wine from the wine society). But all in all we very much enjoyed the visit and would recommend it if you have a spare...

Had an amazing afternoon self wine tour here trying 6 of their wines and complimented with the sharing platter winnies wheel cheese is a game changer brought 1 to take home and it didn't last I'm definitely coming back for several more, their cider strawberry and mint cider is amazing too, couldn't resist being the pickled onions and apricots chutney as well as 3 bottles of wine and a special Blackcurrent whisky as a...