Things to do · Nailsworth
Woodchester Valley Vineyard
A vineyard and winery in the Woodchester valley near Stroud and Nailsworth, with booked tours and tastings and a cellar door shop on the A46 open seven days a week.
Book the classic tour for the views from the tasting room and a proper look at the winery; if you only want wine, the cellar door shop on the A46 needs no booking and welcomes dogs and children. Tours are adults only.
- Good: Cellar door shop open seven days, no booking (Sundays March to December)
- Good: Children and dogs on leads welcome in the shop
- Good: Tours all year, with a fuller programme from April to October
- Worth knowing: Tours are for over-18s only and must be booked
- Worth knowing: Dogs only on the vineyard dog-walk tour
- Worth knowing: No café, and no public toilets at the shop
About
Woodchester Valley Vineyard grows grapes on the slopes of the Woodchester valley between Stroud and Nailsworth. Fiona Shiner planted the first acre at Amberley in 2007, added a farm on the hill opposite and later a site at Stonehouse, and in 2016 opened her own winery with the winemaker Jeremy Mount. Fiona and her husband Niall had come home after 18 years in Hong Kong. The estate now has 58 acres under vine and makes more than 100,000 bottles of still and sparkling wine a year.
There are two ways in. The cellar door shop on the A46 at Inchbrook opens without booking from 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday all year, and 10am to 5pm on Sundays from March to December. You can taste by the glass or in a flight, or book a 30-minute tutored tasting for £15 (2026). Children and dogs on leads are welcome there, but there are no public toilets.
The vineyard itself, up Convent Lane, opens only for pre-booked tours, which end in the tasting room overlooking the valley. The classic tour and tasting costs £30 and the premium £40 (2026); on set days the classic tour can include a grazing lunch for £50. Tours are for over-18s only and run all year, on a reduced timetable from November to March. Dogs can come only on the occasional vineyard dog-walk tour (£20).
There is no café or restaurant. The estate also lets vineyard barns and houses, and Woodchester Park is across the valley for a walk.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 17:00 |
Cellar door shop hours. Closed Sundays in January and February and on Easter Sunday. The vineyard (Convent Lane, GL5 5HR) is open for pre-booked tours only.
Facilities
- Cellar door shopInchbrook, GL5 5EY: wines by the glass, flights and gifts
- ParkingLimited outside the shop; ask the team for the dedicated spaces
- DogsOn a lead in the shop; only on the dog-walk tour at the vineyard
The details
- Time to allow
- About two hours for a tour
- Features
- Views · Shop · Guided tours
- History
- First vines planted in 2007; own winery since 2016
- Parking
- Limited parking outside the cellar door shop on the A46; ask the team for the dedicated spaces. Tour guests get directions with their booking.
- Without a car
- The vineyard suggests booking a taxi ahead from Stroud or Nailsworth firms, as taxis are hard to find on the day.
Photos
Barrels in the winery Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
Between the vines Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
The vineyard shop 
The cellar door shop
Location
Places to stay nearby
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Woodchester Valley Vineyard stays
Self-catering · Nailsworth
Three barn suites for two, a two-bedroom farmhouse and a six-bedroom house among the vines at Woodchester Valley Vineyard, near Nailsworth.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Amberley Inn
Inn · Nailsworth
An inn with 13 en-suite rooms on the hillside above the Woodchester valley at Amberley, near Nailsworth and Stroud, which describes itself as a restored 16th-century inn.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Old Lodge
Inn · Nailsworth
An inn with six rooms on Minchinhampton Common, about two miles by road from Nailsworth, breakfast included and food all day.
Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Woodchester Valley Vineyard stays
- Dunkirk Mill Museum 1.1 km away
- The Black Horse, Amberley 1.1 km away
- The Amberley Inn 1.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Whitfield's Tump, Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
Whitfield's Tump is a Neolithic long barrow on Minchinhampton Common, a low mound 26m long where early farmers buried their dead, named from the tradition that the preacher George Whitefield spoke from it in 1743. A scheduled monument on free National Trust land.
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Woodchester Park boathouse
Sight · Historic building · Nailsworth
The boathouse on Old Pond in Woodchester Park is a small rustic building of about 1820, probably by John Adey Repton for the first Earl Ducie, with a boat dock below and a timber oriel over the boat opening. Grade II; seen from the path over the dam.
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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.
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Rodborough Common
Sight · Common or park · Stroud and the Five Valleys
Open limestone grassland on the hill between Stroud and the Golden Valley, owned by the National Trust, known for rare pasqueflowers in spring, early purple orchids in May and over 30 kinds of butterfly, grazed by commoners’ cattle, with Rodborough Fort on its brow.