The Chiltern Valley Brewery and Vineyard, almost the closest vineyard to my home town of Henley, has been awarded a Royal Warrant of Appointment to the Queen – the first for an English vineyard.
The Warrant is given to only a few dozen businesses each year. Each has to have supplied the goods or services to the Royal Household for at least five consecutive years. The wines and beers of Chiltern are available in the Royal Farm shop in Windsor in addition to direct from the vineyard.
The company, based in Hambleden, was founded in 1980 on the site of an old pig farm.
