Branchline Chardonnay
Guide price: £25
Recorded vintages: 2025
An estate-grown Chardonnay fermented with wild yeast and lightly oaked, bottled unfined and unfiltered.
2019
Stamford
Andy and Fi Beamish bought Church Farm in 2012 and planted its first vines in 2019. They launched Mallard Point in 2022, naming it after the locomotive that set the steam speed record near Essendine. The farm now combines a vineyard, winery and distillery.
Fi uses grape skins in the distillery, while winery by-products feed the farm’s Hereford cattle. Sheep graze the vineyard in winter, and customers can return the aluminium bottles for cleaning and refilling.
Church Farm has more than 18,500 vines near Stamford in Rutland, close to the East Coast Main Line. Bacchus, Chardonnay and Pinot varieties grow alongside disease-resistant Sauvignac and Cabernet Jura. The family uses wildflower strips, cover crops, mechanical weeding and winter sheep grazing in the vineyard.
WINEMAKER
Andy Beamish makes the wines at Church Farm’s on-site winery. He uses hand-picked grapes and wild yeast cultured from the vineyard, bottling the wines unfined and unfiltered. The range includes still wines and pink pét-nat.
The Collection
Guide price: £25
Recorded vintages: 2025
An estate-grown Chardonnay fermented with wild yeast and lightly oaked, bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Guide price: £25
Recorded vintages: 2024
A pink pét-nat fermented with wild yeast, bottled unfined and unfiltered with no added sulphur.
Guide price: £21
Recorded vintages: 2025
A Bacchus fermented with wild yeast, undergoing full malolactic fermentation and bottled unfined and unfiltered.
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Tour the family-run vineyard, working winery and distillery, taste seasonal wines from tank or bottle, browse the small shop and add a British cheese or charcuterie box for an indoor tasting or vineyard picnic. Gin School and private events are also available by booking.
Tours and tastings: Tours run on published dates from March to September and require advance booking. Outdoor routes can be wet or uneven; guests with mobility requirements should contact the estate before booking.