Family owned vineyard and winery eight miles from Brighton, established in 2010, pouring Bacchus, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in a tasting room that looks towards the Downs.
Tasting: Tasting room open 11am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday from April to October, with small group tours and cheese boards
Tasting room on the Albourne farm north of Brighton, built around Bacchus, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, with vineyard tours and pop-up dining through the season.
Natural wine bar in Brighton's South Lanes, pouring organic and biodynamic bottles with seasonal small plates from Sussex growers and fishing boats.
The list: Natural wine list built on organic and biodynamic growers, poured alongside seasonal small plates made with Sussex produce
Jubilee Street wine bar and shop trading since 2007, pouring small-grower bottles by the glass and running weekend masterclasses in the same room.
The list: By-the-glass and retail list drawn from small independent growers, with organic, biodynamic and natural bottles throughout
Church Road wine bar, bottle shop and kitchen in Hove, with a changing glass list of grower wines and sherries and a tasting room behind the shop.
The list: Rotating list of wines and sherries by glass or bottle, bought direct from independent growers in the UK and Europe
Norfolk Square bar pouring a fully English wine list weighted towards Sussex growers, with small plates built around the same county's produce.
The list: An all-English list that leans on Sussex, with Sugrue, Artelium and Albourne among the sparkling and rose pours
Western Road wine bar and shop in Hove, strong on English sparkling, with charcuterie from the counter and a speakeasy room behind at weekends.
The list: Wine bar and retail shelf in one room, weighted towards English sparkling with Burgundy and Bordeaux alongside, served with charcuterie
Hove neighbourhood restaurant whose list runs deep in Burgundy, the Rhone and Piedmont, with winemaker dinners run through the year.
Awards: MICHELIN Guide 2026, Good Food Guide 2025
Counter-seating Italian on Western Road in Hove, with handmade pasta and an all-Italian list poured by the glass at the horseshoe bar.
Awards: MICHELIN Guide 2026
Kemptown merchant trading since 1979 and supplying much of the Brighton restaurant trade, with a small-producer range and its own tasting events.
North Laine merchant in a restored Georgian building, with a champagne wall, fine wine cellar and a tasting room used for meet-the-winemaker nights.
Awards: Decanter Retailer Awards, Best Regional Wine Shop South-East England 2023
Independent Brighton drinks merchant trading since 2015 from Seven Dials and the station, with a wide natural and organic wine shelf and regular tastings.
Merchant near Preston Park run by Karl Elwood, buying from lesser-known estates and running subscriptions, tasting events and cellar-building advice.
Brighton wine school run by Jonathan Gibson within the Local Wine School network, teaching WSET Levels 1 to 3 plus Wine Scholar Guild regional courses.
Weekend masterclasses and private tastings run inside the Jubilee Street bar, taught from the same small-grower list sold across the counter.
Private tasting sessions led by WSET Level 3 graduate Anna in the room behind the Hove shop, covering Burgundy, Piedmont, orange wine and sherry.
Vintage-bus vineyard days from Brighton station, running Saturdays from April to October to Ridgeview and Court Garden with a homemade lunch and paired wines.
Hosted shuttle service from Brighton to Sussex cellar doors, Thursday to Sunday, with single or multi-vineyard routes and no fixed guided itinerary.
Portslade distillery making gin from organic grain spirit with juniper, fresh orange and lime peel, running distillery tours, a gin school and its own bar.
Henfield distillery fermenting sugar cane juice, jaggery, panela and molasses into rum from scratch, with monthly tours and an evening rum and gin school.
Small Hove distillery working a 100-litre still since 2018, making gin, vodka, limoncello, coffee liqueur and absinthe, and opening for Friday and Saturday tastings.
Two-hour session at the Portslade distillery where guests build a gin recipe from the botanical bench, distil it and wax-seal a bottle to take home.
A natural wine and cocktail bar in the South Lanes that keeps pouring after the kitchen closes, with the last seating at 21:30 and the bar running to midnight at the weekend.
The list: Natural, organic and biodynamic list with more than twenty wines by the glass, served alongside small plates until 22:00.
The Hove room that stays open latest without turning into a cocktail bar: wine, charcuterie and a bottle shop from 10am to midnight Tuesday to Saturday.
The list: Wine and charcuterie room off Western Road with a shop attached, open from mid morning through to midnight six days a week.
Wine bar, restaurant and off licence on Church Road, and the one Sussex room that keeps a standing sherry list alongside its small independent European growers.
The list: An ever changing list of wines, sherries and cocktails, many by the glass, picked off the shelf at individually marked bottle prices.
A Jubilee Street wine shop that pours what it sells and runs evening tasting masterclasses, which is the easiest structured tasting to get into in Brighton.
The list: Shop and bar list poured by the glass, with evening masterclasses run around a theme or a region.
The Brighton room that puts Sussex sparkling and still wine at the top of the list rather than in a corner of it, on Norfolk Square off Western Road.
The list: English wine led list with Sussex producers at the front of it, poured by the glass in a small Norfolk Square room.
The South Lanes natural wine and cocktail bar, with more than twenty natural, organic and biodynamic wines open by the glass at any one time.
Tip: Go on a Friday or Saturday, when the bar runs to midnight and the by the glass list is at its widest.