Community Wine Harvest London
About Urban Wine Company
We're a community winemaking collective proving that you don't need rolling vineyards to make proper wine.
Just a vine, some determination, and a willingness to share buckets with your neighbours.
One Garden. One Question. One Slightly Mad Idea.
It was a sunny afternoon in 2009. Richard, our founder, was relaxing under his garden vine with a glass of wine. Nice moment. Except the wine had been flown thousands of miles to reach his glass.
He looked up at the grapes hanging above him. Looked at the vines sprawling across neighbouring fences and allotments and he thought: surely we can do better than this?
That September, Richard set out to prove it. He collected grapes from gardens across London. From allotments in Tooting. From behind supermarkets. From patches alongside railway tracks. Anywhere a vine had decided to grow, Richard was there with a bucket.
He found winemaking experts willing to take a chance on urban grapes. Together, they pressed, fermented, and waited. The result? Genuinely drinkable wine. Made entirely from grapes grown in London.
From One Garden to a Growing Community
What started as one person's experiment has grown into the only community wine harvest of its kind — a community wine harvest in London built from gardens across the city.
Every September, dozens of growers bring their garden grapes to our Annual Harvest. We pool them together, send them to a proper winery, and transform them into wine.
Because Wine Doesn't Need to Fly Halfway Round the World
We believe in keeping things local. In knowing where your wine comes from. In communities gathering around something they've created together. We believe garden vines deserve a chance. That allotment grapes shouldn't go to waste. That the view from your kitchen window can become the wine on your table.
From first-time growers to seasoned vine wranglers, everyone's welcome.
Got grapes? Bring them. Got questions? Ask them. Just want to buy British-grown wine? We've got that too.
