Saffron Grange Wine Dinner at the Market House

Raise the glass with Saffron Grange

Saffron Grange is a family-run vineyard on the outskirts of the historic market town of Saffron Walden. We’ve nurtured local talent and invested in the very best equipment and world-class expertise to craft the finest quality English sparkling wine.

Our vineyard sits on the same chalk seam that runs all the way from Northern France’s renowned wine regions, up through Sussex and into Essex.

100 million years ago, our land was deeply submerged by tropical seawater teaming with macroscopic, calcareous algae and shellfish from which decaying fragments very slowly deposited to create a deep, porous chalk bed. In more recent times a thin overlying clay-loam soil developed on the surface which just covers the flinty, upper chalk.

This rare soil formation perfectly combines with the unique climate in this little pocket of England to create excellent conditions for growing grapes. In wet weather, it provides excellent drainage whilst holding enough moisture during the dry season to encourage the grapes’ flavour development ahead of harvest.