4 editor-picked estates growing Solaris in Sussex.
Where to taste Solaris in Sussex: the estates that grow it, how the region expresses the grape, and how to book a visit.
Family owned vineyard off Vowels Lane near East Grinstead, open seven days a week, with a Tithe Barn wine shop and cafe, a wine garden and bookable tours.
Tasting: Open 10am to 5pm seven days a week for the Tithe Barn wine shop and cafe, with bookable tours and tastings
Tithe barn shop and tasting room at Mill Place Farm near East Grinstead, open daily, with Bacchus, Chardonnay and Solaris poured in the wine garden.
One of the few Sussex bottles of Solaris, the disease resistant hybrid that ripens early enough to make still white reliably in an English summer, sold from the estate shop.
Tip: Worth tasting next to the Bacchus to see what the Weald soils do with two very different aromatic whites.
Organic Solaris from the High Weald estate Roy Cook founded in 1979, at £21 the cheapest certified organic bottle on the Sedlescombe list.
Tip: Sedlescombe's tour and tasting vouchers cover five wines, which is the cheapest way to work out which of them you actually want.