Manstree Vineyard, 1979 - 2024
March 11th 2024
We are now open for the 2024 season Thursday - Sunday 12.00pm - 5.00pm
45 years young! We have the oldest commercially productive vines in Devon.
Since Yearlstone Vineyard removed their 35 year old Madeleine Angevine vines 12 years a go, our now 45 year old Madeleine Angevine and Seyval Blanc vines are the grand old vines in Devon!
They still produce a consistently high yielding crop of top quality grapes which we now sell as a fresh crop to other local wineries. Our policy during the last few seasons has been to sell our grapes and we are now buying in wine from these estates to sell in our shop rather than having our own Manstree wines.
Manstree vineyard occupies a warm sunny slope 1 1/2 miles from the Exeter city boundary at Shillingford st George and has been producing commercial grape crops for the last 40 years.
Vines flourish in an area of the county known as 'Devon's frying pan' having a low summer rainfall due to the double rain shadow effect from Dartmoor and the Haldon hills.
Manstree takes its name from the road that passes the farm and that of a nearby field indicating that there was once a gallows for sheep stealers and other felons, literally a man's tree.
There are currently five varieties grown on 5 acres the main 3 being Seyval Blanc, Madeleine Angevine a south west speciality vine & Siegerrebe a relation of the gewürztraminer grape.
Wines 2023
WE ARE NOW SELLING WINE FROM OTHER WESTCOUNTRY VINEYARDS INCLUDING
2018 Yearlstone Sparkling Wine - £19.95 per bottle
2018 Pebblebed Dry White Wine - £12.95 per bottle
2018 Pebblebed Rose Wine - £12.95 per bottle
2019 Pebblebed Red Wine - £13.50 per bottle
2022 Sharpham Dart Valley White Wine - £13.50 per bottle
2023 Sharpham new Release White Wine - £13.95 per bottle
Telephone 01392 832218 for more information