Brecks Vineyard

When	Days	Hours
Mon & Fri	Mon, Fri	10:00–14:00
Thu	Thu	14:00–19:00

Cellar door only; closed Tue/Wed/Sat/Sun outside events. Visits outside these hours by appointment. Source: brecksvineyard.com cellar door page, first-party fetch 2026-09-09.

Opening hours can change for private events - it's always worth checking the vineyard's website before you visit.

What's the vibe?

Brecks Vineyard is one of Norfolk's newest producers, with vines planted only in May 2023 on a family farm outside Hockwold cum Wilton, close to the Suffolk border. The family have farmed this land for generations, mostly growing onions, and turned part of it over to vines after a run of poor harvests made it clear they needed a second crop to fall back on. The chalk-rich soil here suits grapes better than it ever did onions. There's no restaurant or on-site accommodation, and only one wine under their own label so far, so this is a small, low-key visit rather than a full day out: come for the cellar door and the story, not a polished experience.

The cellar door is open Monday and Friday from 10am to 2pm, and Thursday from 2pm to 7pm for a late-night session, with visits outside these hours possible by appointment.

Aside from the shop hours, most of what's on offer here happens through the vineyard's events programme rather than everyday visiting: free Summer Sundays with a dog-friendly mobile bar serving hot and cold drinks and snacks, a Yoga & Gong evening among the vines, Wicker Bunny and beginners' willow-weaving courses, a Fire & Flavour barbecue course, and occasional Feast Nights and Friday evening gatherings. Check their website or Instagram for dates, as these run seasonally rather than on a fixed schedule.

There's no restaurant or café on site outside of event days, and no accommodation, so this isn't a destination for a full day out: it's better suited to a quick stop at the cellar door or booking onto one of the events.

Brecks Vineyard's own-label wine is a Bacchus, non-vintage, described by the vineyard as light and aromatic, with notes of elderflower, lime, and green apple, and a clean, crisp, dry finish. It has already picked up an award, a solid result for a vineyard only a couple of years into production.

Most of the grapes grown on the vineyard's 7.5 hectares don't end up under the Brecks label at all. The majority go to other English wine producers under contract, who use them to make sparkling wine, a common enough arrangement in an industry where growing and winemaking are often separate businesses. It means Brecks' own wine list is small, and likely to stay that way for now.

Brecks Vineyard is on Burdock Lane in Hockwold cum Wilton, a small village in the Brecks: the sandy heath and forest country that straddles the Norfolk-Suffolk border. It's a rural spot, best reached by car.

Brecks Vineyard exists because of onions, or rather because of what happened when they failed. The family who farm this land had grown onions for years, but a summer drought combined with Environment Agency restrictions on water abstraction cut their usual 1,200-tonne yield down to around 800 tonnes, a shortfall that could have cost them hundreds of thousands of pounds. Rather than gamble the whole farm on one crop again, they planted 31,500 vines across eight grape varieties in May 2023, reasoning that the chalk-rich soil that makes onion-growing here so unpredictable suits vines instead. It's an increasingly common story in East Anglia, where a warming climate is turning land once considered marginal for wine into a steadier bet than some of the field crops it used to grow.