You could say at one level that putting a place like Denbies, essentially a wine shop in my list of #50places2026 might be seen as cheating, it’s just a shop isn’t it?
However there is a lot more to the place then a shop to buy some English wine. On the day we went, there was a Peugeot car rally, alongside an antiques fair.
Across the estate are the wine shop, restaurants, a farm shop, a beer shop, coffee roastery, to name some.
However what you can also do is walk around the vineyards in the estate. On the day we went it was hot and sunny and I did feel like I was walking around a vineyard in France or Germany.
I was pleased to have reached my fifty places in 2025 for my #50places2025 series of blog posts. This year I am planning to do something similar with a new hashtag, #50places2026 and it will be the same rules. Each time I visit a place I will post a blog post and some photographs. I can’t repeat places, and in an extra twist I can’t use the fifty places I visited in 2025 in the list as well (though I anticipate visiting some of those places again).
So far I have visited 34 places.
