page_title: Denbies Wine Estate
section_title: Wine production
hierarchical_section_title: Denbies Wine Estate / Wine production
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of part of Denbies Wine Estate, near Dorking, in Surrey.
context_page_description: Denbies Wine Estate near Dorking, Surrey has the largest vineyard in England with 265 acres under vines, representing more than 10 per cent of the plantings in the whole of the United Kingdom. It has a visitors' centre that attracts around 300,000 visitors a year.
context_section_description: Denbies is situated on the North Downs, which are a range of chalk hills the topsoil of which consists of fertile loam interspersed with flints. From 1986 to 1989 White had the south-facing slopes planted with vines, which cover 265 acres (1.07 km²) of the 627-acre (2.54 km²) estate, the remainder of which is woodland and pasture. The average yield is 300,000 litres of wine per year.
  Around 65 per cent of Denbies' wine is sold at the visitors' centre, and the remainder through supermarkets, wholesalers and via mail order.
  In 2010 Denbies Chalk Ridge Rosé won the IWC international Gold award, beating more than 360 competitors from 21 countries. The IWC wine challenge is the world's biggest and most influential wine competition.
caption: Vineyard, July 2009
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