
English Wine Feast at THE PIG-in the South Downs
THE PIG-in the South Downs | Wednesday 25 June 2025Raise a glass with us for English Wine Week with a summertime PIG supper and expertly paired wines from our great local friends – who are serious English winemaking rockstars!
£140 per person
Book NowChampioning homegrown, local produce on our doorstep has always been at the beating heart of THE PIG. From Cornwall to Kent, creating fresh, seasonal, honest dishes and pouring crisp glasses of cracking wine made with fruit from our own soil is truly our way of life!
You’ll always be able to spot a sizeable chunk (over 50!) of seriously talented UK winemakers on our PIG menus – every bottle is carefully chosen by our talented sommelier teams who search the length and breadth of the country for the very best English offerings from grape to glass.
So, it should come as no surprise that English Wine Week marks a very exciting date in our diaries every summer – it’s a serious means for celebrating the solstice with our long-standing wine supplier friends… and you’re invited to join us!
Head to our house at THE PIG-in the South Downs for a three-course summer solstice PIG feast in our glass restaurant, overlooking our very own verdant vineyard. You’ll be warmly hosted by THE PIG’s Group Beverage Director, Luke Harbor, and four of our long-standing English wine supplier friends who have been on our menus since day one: Hambledon, Simpsons, Sugrue South Downs and Castlewood.
We’ll kick off the evening amongst the luscious vines of our vineyard, nestled at the bottom of the house, where we’ll pop the first bottles of Hambledon Classic Cuvée (made less than an hour away in Hampshire), to sip on with some seriously moreish Piggy Bits in the evening golden hour.
Then, meander up to our restaurant in the main house where the conversation will start flowing with a generous glass of Simpsons Rabbit Hole Pinot Noir, and a welcome from Lucy Steward, Commercial Manager at Hambledon and Charles Simpson, Co-founder of Simpsons.
Sit back and relax as your main course is served (freshly picked from our Kitchen Garden this morning and locally caught from the best local fishermen we know!) with a generous glass of Sugrue Bonkers Chardonnay. Dermot Sugrue, Co-founder of Sugrue South Downs, will share the story behind this barrel-aged, multi-vintage English wine in thoughtful conversation with Rob Corbett: owner and winemaker at Castlewood, a Devonshire family-run vineyard, who we’re huge fans of across THE PIGs.
You’ll round off the evening with a perfectly chilled glass of Castlewood Sparkling Rosé that’s a perfect match for our sunshine-season PIG pudding, with notes of fresh strawberries and cream and crunchy red apples. Cheers to good food, a wonderful summer and seriously great English wine!
When?
Wednesday 25th June 2025
What time?
We’ll pop the first bottles of Hambledon fizz in the vineyard at THE PIG-in the South Downs at 6.30pm to enjoy with grazing platters of Piggy Bits. The three-course PIG supper and thoughtful conversations with our fantastic English wine friends will be held in the restaurant at 7pm.
This dinner is a relaxed, sociable supper with sharing tables – if you’ve booked with friends, just give us a shout so we can make sure you’re all sat together. Everything will be prepped ahead of your arrival, right down to the name cards on the tables!
Where?
THE PIG-in the South Downs
How much?
£140 per person, which includes a three-course PIG supper, plus Piggy Bits in the vines, and perfectly paired English wines. The wine will be generously poured, so we suggest you order a taxi… or better still, book a room – we are offering a special rate so you can really make the most of the evening!
Please note this event is for over 18s only.
Meet your hosts
Lucy Steward

Lucy Stewart is the Commercial Manager at Hambledon Wine Estate, bringing two decades of experience in the wine trade. Established in 1952 by Major-General Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones, Hambledon Vineyard is the Birthplace of English Wine. 70 years later, under the esteemed guidance of Berry Bros. & Rudd and Symington Family Estates, we continue to pride ourselves on our rich heritage and our shared goal: to create the Finest English Sparkling Wine.
A passionate advocate for English Sparkling Wine, Lucy joined Hambledon in early 2025, drawn by both the estate’s pioneering reputation and its deep roots in her home county of Hampshire. For Lucy, working with Hambledon wines is more than a career—it’s a personal connection to the land she loves. She considers it a true privilege to work in an industry that continues to inspire her every day.
Dermot Sugrue

Dermot Sugrue is one of the most successful and awarded winemaking rockstars on our home soil! Alongside his partner, Ana Sugrue, they are the award-winning, boutique producers of English sparkling and still wines at Sugrue South Downs winery.
Sugrue South Downs was established in 2006 when Dermot, then head winemaker at Nyetimber, was approached by a monastic order of Catholic priests to plant a vineyard at Storrington Priory in West Sussex. The first release of Dermot’s own wine from this vineyard, ‘The Trouble with Dreams’, rapidly gained critical acclaim and cemented his reputation as one of England’s finest winemakers.
Charles Simpson

Ruth and Charles Simpson have been producing award-winning wines at Domaine de Sainte Rose, their stunning, southern French property, since 2002. From this 40-hectare vineyard they have created an eclectic range of wines that have won international acclaim and are sold around the world.
In 2012, attracted by the quality of the terroir and the opportunity to become part of what is one of the most dynamic wine producing regions of the world, Ruth and Charles brought their expertise and savoir-faire to Barham, near Canterbury in Kent, establishing Simpsons’ Wine Estate with an aspiration to produce world class English wines.
With 38 hectares of vineyards now in production and a state-of-the-art winery situated just minutes from the vines, Simpsons’ exclusively estate-grown still and sparkling wines are increasingly heralded, both nationally and internationally, as some of the finest of their kind.
Rob Corbett

From 2006 - 2009 Castlewood Vineyard emerged from a south-facing Devon hillside over looking the river Axe. This steady progression enabled traditional sparkling wine varieties to be trialed and planted.
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier represent three quarters of the vineyard, each responsible for the our vintage sparkling wines Non classic varietals represent the rest, providing fruit for blending and development of our Reserve and NV sparkling wines.