The Blog

This year there is more to enjoy in English Wine Week than ever. Having had our wines made under Emma Rice’s expert eye at Hattingley from 2015 to 2021, in 2022 we took the plunge and built our own winery and now, at long last, we are releasing our completely home-made wines – both grown […]

“The micra has got to go” was the very surprising statement made by our youngest son. Previously he had said, in a variety of ways but with equal weight, “That car means more to me than any family pet.”

Day: Every Thursday from May until it gets too cold in September, Time: 5:30pm – 9pm, Where: The Winery, Alresford Road, Itchen Stoke, Alresford, SO24 0QW We’re back for 2026 with Thursday Lates, starting this May. No need to book – just turn up and grab a seat!

We love getting together with other people who also make fabulous things and this year we have 18 new Makers along with our regular favourites. Art, books, brocante, ceramics, clothes, vintage textiles, baskets, bags, candles, organic sausages, belts, jewellery, t-shirts… along with a liberal sploosh of olive oil, cordials, honey, bath oils, wine and other […]

In 2024, The Grange were very proud to enter into a partnership with The Goldsmiths’ Company to become the official English sparkling wine of the Company and Goldsmiths’ Fair. Every autumn, Goldsmiths’ Fair brings together a curated selection of the UK’s best contemporary jewellers and silversmiths. Each exhibitor has a unique approach to working with precious […]

Every Thursday from May 22nd – September 11th, 5:30pm – 8.30pm, The Winery, Alresford Road, Itchen Stoke, Alresford, SO24 0QW

I have only done one really practical thing in my life which is when I sucked a Hama bead out of our son’s left nostril using a straw.  He was 2.  That I mention this quite often, 19 years later, is because that Hama bead is my proudest moment as a mother, a little beacon […]

We are clearing out my mother’s house … a desk full of blue Sellotape tins that now hold bent paper clips and desiccated rubber bands.  There are photographs of people we can’t identify, ration books, her school certificate, unfinished rolls of tapestry, incomplete sets of playing cards, discoloured bits of tissue paper.  That’s just the […]

We adapted to the Spanish hours pretty easily – lunch at 3 and dinner at 10 – until last night when it all seemed to catch up with us and we bought queso and jamon in a supermarket before retreating to our hotel room to watch Netflix. We have covered 1000 miles in 5 days […]

“A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit.  Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree.  But let him wait, and the pear at length falls into his lap.”  Except Abraham Lincoln didn’t live where we do.    We have […]