点评:Coddington Vineyard is a really beautiful place. The house and gardens are really very impressive. The tour was a relaxed affair, pausing at 4 spots by the vines while Peter shared information about how they came to own the vineyard, the grape growing process, and some of the challenges they've had. There was a huge amount of detail about pesticides used which made it very clear that this is not an organic operation in any way shape or form and put me off the wine a bit! Then we went and did our tasting (4 glasses plus the sparkling) and we also ordered two sharing platters.
It was a pleasant afternoon but we were gobsmacked when the bill came to £212 for 4 people. An ok talk, about 2 glasses of wine, and a small amount of cheese and meat (and a lot of bread). The breakdown was that the tour and 5 small glasses of wine were £39 per person. Then sharing platters were a ridiculous £28 each for a lot of bread, slice of of ham, 2 very thin slices of chorizo and 2 slice of prosciutto ham plus some cheese. The cheese was nice but the portions for two were stingy of Hereford Hop, stilton and cheddar. The meats looked like they were out of a supermarket multipack. The price did also include a bottle of wine per couple to take away but the only wine that was to my taste in tasting (the rose) was also sold out.
It was fun as a one-off but I can't see us going back. Three Choirs wine is comparable but tasting flights are much more generous and tour is much better (partly because they actualy make the wine on site, Coddington is just the vines). The food at Three Choirs is significantly higher quality and much better value.
翻译:科丁顿葡萄园真的是一个美丽的地方。房子和花园真的非常令人印象深刻。这次旅行很轻松,在葡萄藤旁的 4 个地方停留,Peter 分享了他们如何拥有葡萄园、葡萄种植过程以及他们遇到的一些挑战。关于使用的杀虫剂的大量细节非常清楚,这绝不是一个有机操作,这让我对葡萄酒有点反感!然后我们去品尝(4 杯加上起泡酒),我们还点了两个共享拼盘。
这是一个愉快的下午,但当 4 个人的账单达到 212 英镑时,我们惊呆了。谈话还不错,大约 2 杯葡萄酒,少量奶酪和肉(以及大量面包)。具体来说,这次旅行和 5 小杯葡萄酒每人 39 英镑。然后,共享拼盘的价格高得离谱,每人 28 英镑,包括很多面包、一片火腿、两片非常薄的香肠和两片意大利熏火腿,外加一些奶酪。奶酪很好吃,但两人份的赫里福德啤酒花、斯蒂尔顿奶酪和切达奶酪太少了。肉类看起来像是从超市多件装里拿出来的。价格还包括每对夫妇一瓶外带的葡萄酒,但唯一合我口味的葡萄酒(玫瑰红)也卖光了。
作为一次性活动,这很有趣,但我看不出我们会再去。Three Choirs 的葡萄酒也差不多,但品酒航班要慷慨得多,旅游要好得多(部分原因是他们实际上在现场酿造葡萄酒,而 Coddington 只是葡萄藤)。Three Choirs 的食物质量明显更高,性价比更高。