Exton Park Vineyard, Hampshire
A single-vineyard estate on the chalk downs, drawn row by row
Exton Park is a sixty-acre single-vineyard estate on the South Downs chalk in Hampshire, planted in 2003 with the three Champagne varieties, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, and now among the leading names in English sparkling wine. Anthony was commissioned to map it: a decorative map for the wall, and working maps for the vineyard team.
Every Row, Drawn
A vineyard of some 120,000 vines, drawn row by row, each row recorded with its variety and clone, the full sixty acres set down to scale. Beyond the vines, the map holds the fields and woodland, the winery and cellars, and the chalk geology of the terroir beneath. It hangs at Exton in The Vault, the bottle store designed by Dunning & Everard, with the estate's own typeface, palette and identity carried through into the framed print, so the map reads as part of the house.
From the Wall to the Bottle
The map has travelled further than most. The map of the estate is now the vineyard's logo, and the map of the rows is printed inside each individual wine box, so a customer opening a bottle of Exton Park finds the same cartography that hangs in The Vault, drawn from the same survey of the same ground.
Working Maps for the Vineyard
Alongside the decorative map, working maps live in the vineyard office, drawn from the same survey and updated as new vines go in, usually within a week of the change on the ground. One survey serves the tasting room, the office, the label and the box.
