Journal of Vacation Marketing Volume 14 Number 1

Case Study

Developing wine tourism: A case study of the

attitude of English wine producers to wine
tourism

Michael Howley* and Jetske van Westering

Received (in revised form): January 2007
Anonymously refereed paper

*School of Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK

Tel: +44(0)1483 686347; Fax: +44 (0)1483 686301; E-mail: m.howley@surrey.ac.uk

After graduating in economics in the late 1960s, Jetske van Westering is currently a lecturer in
Michael Howley worked for a brief period as Hospitality Management in the School of
an economist in the UK Dairy Industry. He then Management at the University of Surrey. Her
made the transition to the discipline of market research interests include productivity and opera-
research, a subject with which he has been tions management in small and medium enter-
associated ever since. In 1973 he completed prises as well as the interrelationships between
the first ever study of the market for wine in food, wine, heritage, culture and tourism.
British hotels and restaurants, a study for which
he was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree
ABSTRACT
by the University of Surrey. He then entered the
KEYWORDS: English wine, wine tourism
wine and spirit trade and in the late 1970s was
responsible for the UK re-launch of Jack Da- The development of wine tourism has been shown
niel’s Tennessee Whiskey through its newly- to have a possible positive effect for growers in wine
appointed Agent, Percy Fox and Co. He was producing areas. Examples of areas where studies
associated with Jack Daniel’s for several years have demonstrated this effect include Texas and
but simultaneously worked on the sales Rioja. It is believed that the English wine produ-
development of Lanson Champagne and later cers, for the most part, are not organized to derive
became responsible for the British marketing of the maximum benefit from wine tourism. At
Bols Liqueurs, including development of the first present English vineyards are suffering from the
consumer advertising campaign for Bols in that
general depression in British agriculture and vine-
yard owners would benefit from any additional
market. In the 1980s he resumed an academic
income such as that which could be generated by
career, teaching marketing management, mar-
tourist expenditure. A qualitative study conducted
ket research and business policy. Based in the by the authors in 2001 and 2002 shows vineyard
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ings of the study and, using secondary data, vineyard proprietors’ attitudes to wine tour-
notably from the Texas Wine Marketing Research ism and their ideas on how wine tourism in
Institute, wine tourism practices in the UK will be the UK can be encouraged and organized to
compared with those in other wine producing the benefit of the wine producers.
regions. Preliminary findings show growing polar-
ization in the UK wine production world between
a small number of large producers, selling wine to
major supermarkets, airlines and for export, and METHODOLOGY
small life-style proprietors, becoming heavily de- As well as employing secondary data this
pendent on cellar door sales. Findings also show a study is based on a series of qualitative depth
continuing lack of joint vineyard promotional interviews. A qualitative approach was
activity whether organized by the producer, by favoured because very little is know about
central government, local government or by tourist attitudes to wine tourism, at least in the UK.
authorities. In such a situation, where the researchers do
not know enough to formulate precise ques-
tions, a qualitative approach is usually re-
commended (see for example Webb6 ). This
INTRODUCTION piece of research was therefore exploratory
The development of wine tourism has been in nature and the researchers have, in fact,
shown to have a possible beneficial effect for used it to develop a questionnaire to be used
growers in wine producing areas. Examples in a postal survey of producers investigating
of areas where such studies have demon- attitudes to wine tourism.
strated this effect include Texas1 and Rioja.2 The selection of the half-dozen vineyards
For wine tourism to be really successful, shown in Table 1 was judgemental in that
organization both at vineyard level and at the researchers chose vineyard proprietors
regional level is needed: the advantages of who were known to be active in the indus-
partnerships and network in wine tourism try. For example the proprietor of Penshurst
were outlined by Hall et al.3 Similarly the has acted as a spokesperson for English wine
benefits of wine routes to wine producers producers in the media while the proprietor
were described by Telfer4 and Preston- of RidgeView is currently the chief execu-
Whyte.5 tive of English Wine Producers (EWP), the
This article will first investigate the current trade association for the 20 or so largest
situation of wine production and wine tour- producers. Is was natural to include Denbies
ism in the UK. It will then review English in the small sample as this is by far the largest

Table 1: Interviews carried out for wine tourism study

Vineyard proprietors
Bookers, West Sussex
Breaky Bottom, East Sussex
Denbies, West Sussex
Marlings, Hampshire
Penshurst, Kent
RidgeView, East Sussex

Other respondents
English Wine Centre, Proprietor
English Wine Producers (EWP), Marketing Director
Plumpton College, Course Leader for the Higher National Diploma (HND) in Wine Studies
South East England Tourist Board, Director
United Kingdom Vineyards Association (UKVA), Secretary

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UK vineyard while Plumpton College is the earlier poor performing grape varieties, such
only UK academic institution to produce as Muller-Thurgau and Huxelrebe, are dis-
wine from its own vineyard. Recommenda- appearing and being replaced by more suita-
tions as to who to interview and introduc- ble varieties. Finally, English wine producers
tions were made with the assistance of the have become more knowledgeable and
proprietor of the English Wine Centre, a skilled in how to produce good wines from
unique institution which acts as a wholesaler their grapes. This is largely due to courses in
and, in effect, a promotional arm for English viticulture and wine making such as offered
wine. The interview schedule was drawn up at Plumpton College since 1988. A range of
by one of the researchers, with the assistance part-time courses such as the Vine grower’s
of the English Wine Centre, and included course and the Winemaker’s course are of-
discussion of what vineyard facilities were fered beside a full time Higher National
needed to deal successfully with wine tourists Diploma (HND) course that can lead to a
both now and in the future. BSc in Biological Sciences (Wine Studies).
The increasingly professional attitude of
English wine producers was recognized in
2000 when the Ministry of Agriculture,
THE CURRENT STATE OF THE Fisheries and Food (MAFF) awarded a grant
ENGLISH WINE INDUSTRY to the English wine industry – this was the
English wine is becoming increasingly popu- first time that the industry had been accorded
lar in the UK and interest in the production such recognition. Although the sum awarded
of English wine is growing equally. In most was only small – £23,000, to be matched by
supermarkets and off-licences English wines the same amount from the industry itself – it
can be found (although in smaller selections has made it possible for the two professional
and usually grouped with wines from less associations, the United Kingdom Vineyards
popular countries) and newspaper articles Association (UKVA) and the English Wine
featuring English wine or wine producers are Producers (EWP), to join forces and create a
seen more frequently too. Earlier a prejudice number of schemes to raise both the quality
existed against English wine; wine producers and the profile of English wine. One such
in the UK were in general not taken ser- scheme is the English Wine Marque, a seal
iously by wine drinkers (English or other) – of approval that can be displayed both on the
they were seen as hobbyists or as old age bottle and in the vineyard. The MAFF grant
pensioners looking to fill their days. This has also helped fund the new EWP website:
prejudice against English wine was not al- www.englishwineproducers.com, which not
ways unjustified; due to various reasons such only features news, press cuttings and history
as ill-chosen vineyard sites and/or grape but also acts as a link to wine producers’
varieties and a lack in experience or under- websites. Most importantly though, money
standing of the wine making process wines will be spent giving incentives to producers
produced in the nineteen-eighties and early to join the English Quality and Regional
nineties were often unfriendly to the palate. Wine Classification Schemes, which will
By the beginning of the third millennium give wider recognition to both wines and
this scenario has changed. English wines, on schemes. This is necessary, although the
average, are now pleasant, drinkable wines as reputation of English wine (and certainly
the industry is coming of age. There is English sparkling wine) is steadily growing
currently developing a more professional with the cognoscenti, demand for English
attitude to wine making – noticeable, for wine in the supermarket is dragging behind.
example, from the following three issues. Most UK supermarkets still do not stock
Firstly the number of English vineyards is more than one or two lines and as Sara
slowly reducing but the average size is grow- Brook, company buyer for Wal-Mart UK
ing, indicating that some small hobbyist admits ‘customers are not ringing us up
vineyards are being grubbed up. In addition, asking for more English wines’ (in

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Williams7 ). It is not only in the supermarket organized; despite brochures being available
that English wine remains ignored – for the indicating which wineries can be visited;
celebration of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in there are no official wine trails. Except for
June 2002 a champagne was selected in pre- the effort of the English Wine Centre9 there
ference to prize winning and internationally are no attempts made for joint promotion or
renowned English sparkling wines such as to set up networks; vineyard owners seem
Nyetimber or RidgeView. These vineyards not to have learned to co-operate with each
produce top quality sparkling wines that can other or others yet – on the contrary they
compete with the best in the world – an often see each other as competitors. Maybe
event such as the Queen’s Golden Jubilee this is caused by the sheer necessity to sell
could have provided vineyards like these wine from the cellar door; selling English
with an internationally visible platform. wine has never been easy. As Pat Wright co-
owner of Marlings in Hampshire put it:
‘making a wine in England is easy compared
WINE TOURISM to marketing it’.10 Sales from the cellar door
In spite of the recent agricultural setbacks, were once the only way in which small
namely the impact of mad cow disease producers in the UK marketed their wines.
(1999) and the recent foot and mouth epi- This was relatively easy for those situated
demic (2001), which kept people from tra- near to main roads (and with a decent pro-
velling into the countryside, English wine duct), but for those vineyards tucked away in
producers appear to have been little af- difficult-to-find corners, this way of market-
fected.8 Threats to wine tourism in the UK ing was never easy. In the later part of the
come from another direction – they are nineties many small producers saw their sales
based in the industry itself. Wine tourism in from the gate decline11 – with the novelty
England has a different role and position value of English vineyards wearing off, many
from wine tourism in other wine producing growers felt the competition of the growing
countries. In countries such as New Zealand number of visitor attractions and gave up.
and Australia wine tourism has put regions Despite its Roman roots viticulture in
on the map; areas such as Margaret River England is a relatively new product. As such
never enjoyed so many tourists until wine there is no Wine Tourism Strategy such as
was produced and some wines (e.g. Leeuwin there is in Australia12 or France13 to help or
Chardonnay) became famous. In the UK fall back on. Visit England and the English
wine was never part of local gastronomic Tourist Board are only recently waking up
culture (wine consumption until the nine- to the potential of both food and wine as
teen–sixties was very low), and it remains tourist products in their own right. Espe-
largely invisible (there is very little advertis- cially since the popularity of the Ludlow
ing along routes, hardly any exposure in local Marches Food and Drink Festival seems to
restaurants and vineyards do not dominate increase year on year regional Tourist
the landscape). Neither did wine tourism put Boards are stepping up their efforts to pro-
any areas on the map – they were already mote local food and drink related events
there; wine production is mainly found in and destinations. However no plans exist
the wealthy South East of England, in the for the development of wine attractions
counties of Kent, Surrey, East Sussex and such as wine routes. Recognizing that in
West Sussex. These counties are all heavily Australia wine tourism figures recorded in
populated due to their proximity to London 1995 were around 5.3 million visits worth
and there are many other industries. A$ 428 million and according to Tourism
Although a necessity for many vineyards, Reseach Australia had grown to A$ 2.2
cellar door sales and wine tourism in areas billion by 2004,14 and that the largest visitor
such as Kent and Sussex are fighting to get group comes from the UK it is maybe time
attention. The main threat to wine tourism for discussion between all potential partici-
is still that the industry remains largely un- pants.

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Currently, roughly a third of all vineyards Roberts, founder of the RidgeView Estate
in the UK are not open to the public at all.15 for sparkling wine production, puts it:
These vineyards are often small and owned
‘We are as near to Champagne in latitude
by individuals who see grape growing as a
as we are to London.’
hobby. Alternatively these vineyards are
(i.e. about 50 miles.)
leased by another, larger Wine Company, or
all grapes are sold to a large wine company. The realization that this country can pro-
About a quarter are open by appointment duce decent sparkling wines is expressed
only, indicating that they would rather not in the recent quote from wine journalist
receive visitors unless with a good reason. Andrew Catchpole:16
Another third are open to the public,
‘Britain is revealing a new talent for pro-
although some only open during the summer
ducing decent sparkling wines. . ..’
months. In this category and open all year
round, most of the larger, professional vine- The chalky soil of southern England is like
yards can be found, such as Denbies, Three that of the Champagne region and England’s
Choirs and Chapel Down. These companies temperate climate produces grapes with the
act as destinations and wine tourism is an highest acid levels needed for sparkling
important part of their marketing strategy. wines. The key point is that for Cham-
This is underlined by the fact that many have pagne-style wines, unlike, say, typical Aus-
been or are in the process of building, reno- tralian wines, the producer is not trying to
vating or extending their visitors’ facilities. impart strong fruit flavours. So, perhaps, at
Some are adding services such as a restaurant, last English wine producers have found a
conference facilities or visitors rooms; others style for which they have a natural advan-
are capitalizing on their location and empha- tage.
size their gardens, wilderness trails and play- The fact that this trend is fairly recent is
grounds. shown by the fact that the estate which
The product, wine, and its production started it, Nyetimber in West Sussex, was
process will continue to take central stage in only acquired by its producer-owners in
the experience, especially for those compa- 1986. Nyetimber produces a pure Chardon-
nies that produce sparkling wine – England’s nay blanc de blancs and also what they call
latest star product. their Classic Cuvée with 30% of Pinot Noir/
Meunier in the blend. The Nyetimber pro-
prietors are not noted for encouraging wine
tourism but their big break in marketing
ENGLISH SPARKLING WINE terms probably occurred without need of
It would be impossible to write about wine tourism because their first release – a 1992
tourism in the UK at the present time with- Chardonnay blanc de blancs won a gold
out discussing the subject of sparkling wine. medal in the International Wine and Spirit
The growing realization that this country Competition English Wine Trophy (see be-
can produce good sparkling wines is a fairly low). The second best known English spark-
recent phenomenon but it should not really ling wine vineyard is RidgeView which was
surprise us because champagne-style wines planted by Michael Roberts in 1994 and
are wines that do not require high tempera- produced its first minor crop in 1996.
tures for their production. After all the Roberts does encourage wine tourists
champagne district itself is in a fairly north- although not all the time because of the
ern latitude. In terms of still wines England’s demands they make on staff time but primar-
big disadvantage, even compared with its ily at weekends in November and December
neighbour France, has been its relatively leading up to the key Christmas buying
poor climate. With sparkling wines, on period. A discussion at RidgeView showed
the contrary, England enjoys advantages that encouraging visitors, like tutored tast-
in weather and geography. As Michael ings and celebratory dinners, are all seen as

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essential parts of the marketing communica- buyers are well used to squeezing producers
tions mix. A third vineyard, not far away, of all kinds and have the habit of telling
producing excellent English sparkling wine vineyard proprietors that they will stock a
is Breaky Bottom, which, though well wine but they want to put it on shelf at
known to the cognoscenti, does not seem to £3.99 instead of £5.99 for which it is
have caught the attention of the mass media normally sold and on which the proprietor
to the extent of Nyetimber and RidgeView. has based his margin. The general manager
The Proprietor of Breaky Bottom does not of the largest English vineyard, Denbies, has
encourage large numbers of personal visitors gone on record as saying that they have
because of the potential calls on his time in pulled out of most supermarkets because on
dealing with them as he runs the vineyard every bottle of wine sold through them they
virtually single-handed (an often-quoted lost money. The advantage of English spark-
problem in small vineyards). He does, how- ling wine is that it looks like Champagne, it
ever, keep in touch with his many supporters is packaged like Champagne and, at least to
and personal customers by means of regular the palates of the present authors, it tastes as
newsletters. RidgeView also uses regular good as Champagne. Therefore it can com-
mailings and both are located in East Sussex. mand a price not very different from Cham-
The way in which English sparkling wine pagne and the pricing strategy of the top
has suddenly come to its fore is exemplified English producers appears to be to give it a
by its success in the International Wine and retail price which is a little below a French
Spirit Competition. Since 1983 there has grande marque Champagne but at which
been a separate section for UK grown wines they can make a reasonable margin.
and the English Wine Trophy is awarded to Canny entrepreneurs going into English
the best wine in that section. In the years wine production for the first time are drawn
1983 to 1990 it was never won by a spark- to sparkling wine because, although it re-
ling wine but, as the following table shows, quires a substantial initial investment in
in the ten years 1991 to 2000 it was won equipment, it appears to have more secure
seven times by a sparkling wine, three of profit potential than still wine. This was
these being by Nyetimber and one by Rid- certainly the view of Michael Roberts, foun-
geView. der of RidgeView, who is quoted as saying
Undoubtedly one of the great attractions that his rule for commercial success is:
of sparkling wine for English producers is
‘Go to the top end of the market and add
that it has the potential to yield a decent
value.’
profit margin. It is hard to make a profit
from English table wine, especially when In terms of wine tourism this difficulty in
sold through retail multiples. Supermarket making money out of the bulk of English

Table 2: The international wine and spirit competition English wine trophy
1991 Rock Lodge Vineyard – 1989 ‘Impresario’ Sparkling Wine
1992 Throwley Vineyard – 1989 Throwley Chardonnay Sparkling Wine
1993 Carr Taylor Vineyards – 1987 Carr Taylor Vintage Sparkling Wine
1994 Shawsgate Vineyard – 1991 Shawsgate Bacchus
1995 Chapel Down Wines – 1993 Chapel Down Epoch 1 Red
1996 Denbies Wine Estate – 1995 Denbies Late Harvest Dessert Wine
1997 Nyetimber Vineyard – 1992 Première Cuvée Blanc de Blanc Sparkling Wine
1998 Nyetimber Vineyard – 1993 Classic Cuvée Sparkling Wine
1999 Nyetimber Vineyard – 1993 Première Cuvée Blanc de Blanc Sparkling Wine
2000 RidgeView Estate - 1996 Cuvée Merret Bloomsbury

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wines highlights the benefits, in terms of whether organized by regional tourist

both profitability and cash flow, of selling boards, by commercial tour operators or by
them at the cellar door rather than through local newspapers. The inclusion of vine-
conventional retail channels. yards in organized ‘days out’ (tours) invol-
ving other types of attraction appears to be
effective in generating visitor numbers. Ty-
pical examples of these other attractions are
CONCLUSIONS heritage sites, cheese farms, hotels, restau-
Vineyards need to incorporate rants and pubs. Thus a party of tourists
attractions might be taken to an English vineyard,
English vineyards appear to have lost their then a cheese farm, then for a pre-planned
novelty value compared to the situation, say lunch of local produce in a restaurant, next
15 or 20 years ago. Most owners report that visit a heritage site and finally stay over in
the numbers of tourists coming to see a pure a country hotel which was also part of the
vineyard operation have fallen. What seems scheme. Tours of this nature are periodi-
to be needed now is for vineyards to bolt on cally organized by the English Wine Cen-
other attractions, such as flower gardens or tre, a commercial wholesaling and
even zoos, to appeal to the different mem- marketing operation based at Alfriston in
bers of family groups. Herb gardens, restau- East Sussex.
rants and wine bars are other examples of Another organizer is the South East Eng-
additional attractions that have been used for land Tourist Board who organize what they
this purpose. term ‘Day Out tours’ in which Denbies
Denbies, in Surrey, is one of our largest vineyard participate and which the latter’s
vineyards, accounting for 10% of UK plant- Sales and Marketing Manager believes are
ings and here the management is highly very beneficial. In tour inclusion, like other
aware of the potential benefits of linking promotional activities, there is evidence that
with non-vinous cultural activities. At Den- vineyard proprietors need to be pro-active in
bies considerable effort has been expended in developing local links. There is a tendency
developing links with local authorities and for some proprietors to complain of a lack of
regional tourist boards. They host art exhibi- support from local organizations apparently
tions and concerts and encourage local vo- without realizing that they have to put
luntary groups to use their large restaurant themselves about and develop contacts to
area as a meeting place. All these activities make the support happen.
are seen as valuable in building visitor traffic
and awareness of their products. While they
sell a large proportion of their extensive wine Recession in English farming
output to visitors an increasing proportion of English farming is still in its worst recession
their turnover is coming from the sale of for decades. Economic factors, such as the
wine-related merchandise such as aprons, strong pound, are largely responsible but
corkscrews and coasters. This growing im- the industry has also been buffeted by a
portance of the cellar door sale of merchan- succession of apparently random disasters,
dise other then wine is a trend that has ‘mad-cow’ disease, floods (at least in the
already been observed in the USA and is South of the country) in 2000, foot and
likely to spread through English vineyards. mouth disease in 2001. Many vineyard
owners are suffering economically. Other
farm activities can no longer subsidise the
vineyard. Small producers are increasingly
Inclusion of vineyards in organized likely to sell their grapes for vinification by
tours larger producers, rather on the Australian
Vineyard owners report that traffic building model, instead of going to the trouble of
is assisted by including vineyards in tours, making their own wine.

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Increasing polarization between large tainly much better than it used to be, pro-
and small producers vided that the tourism experience is also of
There appears to be a growing polarization high quality and that wine producers devel-
between the activities and attitudes of the op a close working relationship with tourism
large and small producers. The 20 or so promoters then English wine regions may
largest producers now have their own asso- receive similar high levels of visitor interest.
ciation, English Wine Producers, which un- It is time for the English wine industry and
dertakes joint promotional activity while the tourism industry, including national and
both large and small producers are members local bodies, to work together to develop
of the long-established UKVA. The key wine tourism along the lines achieved in
difference is that the large producers can other producing countries.
afford to employ staff dedicated to dealing There still seems to be the need for a body
with tourists. To the small producer dealing to take the lead in developing joint promo-
with wine tourists personally may appear as tional activity, ideally on a regional basis, to
an impossibility in view of all the other encourage wine tourism. The initiative for
demands on his time. Thus a relatively small this joint activity could come from central or
vineyard like Breaky Bottom sees very few local government, tourist boards or produ-
visitors in person but updates its personal cers’ organizations.
customers and aficionados by newsletter.
Denbies, a large producer, employs recep-
tionists and tour guides and receives an STUDY LIMITATIONS
estimated 500,000 visitors a year. The critical The principal limitation of the study is its
point in how visitors can be dealt with is the small sample size. The conclusions are tenta-
stage when the vineyard’s sales grow to the tive in nature therefore, and it is hoped that
point where at least one member of staff can they will be supported and extended in
be hired to devote themselves full time to future by a larger, quantitative study. What is
wine tourism. also required is a serious comparative study
between practices in the UK in dealing with
wine tourism and those in another country
or countries. This would almost certainly
Lack of joint vineyard promotional require empirical study overseas probably of
activity a wine producing country with a similar
Despite the fact that collective promotional cultural background to the UK such as New
activity, notably the development of wine Zealand.
trails, is thought to have been successful in
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