Urban Winery
at Canada Water
About Us
The Vagabond Urban Winery is the UK’s largest urban winery, right in the heart of Canada Water. This is where we make our award-winning wines, using fruit grown across the UK and turning it into expressive, modern bottles on site. It is a fully working winery, built to bring winemaking out into the open and put people closer to what is in their glass.
It is also a Vagabond bar, open seven days a week for a glass of wine, a plate of something delicious, or a deeper dive via our tours, tastings, workshops and masterclasses. You can drink among the tanks, explore the barrels, or even hire the space for something a bit special. Urban, hands on and proudly Vagabond.
The Winery
The winery itself is a fully working, 100 tonne production space, home to stainless steel fermentation tanks, a concrete egg and our own solera system. It is designed to make great wine and to show how it is made, letting you follow the journey from grape to glass in real time. In 2022 we were awarded the Sustainable Wines of Great Britain Trademark for our work to reduce the environmental impact of our winemaking, and in 2024 we were named WineGB Boutique Winery of the Year.
The Wine
Our vineyards are all within two hours of London. We harvest by hand in the early morning before transporting the grapes to the winery, where they are gently sorted and processed. The juice is fermented in a mix of oak and stainless steel to build texture and mouthfeel in the wines, and our ultimate goal is to make the best wines in the UK.
From crisp, aromatic classics like Bacchus and Ortega to textured, barrel aged Chardonnay and genuinely rare English Pinot Noir, everything here is made on site using fruit from across the UK. You will find playful, experimental bottles too: Dios Mio, our skin contact Bacchus; Night Tripper, a co fermented, unicorn blend; and Solena, our multi vintage orange wine aged in solera under flor. These are wines shaped by place, process and a willingness to push things a little further, all made openly in front of you and poured exactly where they are born.
The Winemaker
Our winemaker Jose grew up on a farm in Sussex and has always had a connection to agriculture. Combined with spending a lot of time in Spain with winemaker friends and family, this has contributed to his passion for wine. With a degree in Viticulture and his WSET diploma, Jose has worked across many vineyards and harvests in the UK and abroad, including Bodegas Comando G, Davenport, Westwell, Henners and Wiston. Now at Vagabond, he’s looking to take the inspiration and knowledge gained from his journey to continue learning and experimenting and to create wines that showcase the potential of UK wine production.
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