Vineyard & Orchard Maps

Bespoke maps of vineyards and orchards: block by block, row by row

  • Detail of a hand-drawn vineyard map showing varietals, clones and rootstocks, by Anthony Pelly
  • Anthony Pelly and Daphne Pallavicini beside the hand-drawn map of Exton Park vineyard, Hampshire
  • illustrated custom orchard and vineyard map by rural maps

A vineyard is read in its blocks and its rows: the varietals and clones, the aspect and slope of each parcel, the soils that change across a single hillside. An orchard the same, variety by variety, row by row. Rural Maps records all of it, the planting as the grower knows it and the estate around it, drawn from survey into a single map that is as much at home in the tasting room as in the vineyard office.

Anthony Pelly has mapped vineyards and orchards across England's wine country and beyond, as the English estates have come of age alongside the longer-established names abroad. Each map is drawn from his own survey of the ground, and to the same cartographic standard as every commission.

What the Map Records

Every planting is different. A fully surveyed map will typically hold:

  • Every block and parcel, named, with varietals and areas

  • Clones, rootstocks and year of planting, where recorded

  • Rows and row orientation

  • Aspect, slope and the soil variation across the site

  • The winery, cellar door, tasting room and estate buildings, drawn to scale

  • Tracks, headlands and access

  • Water, drainage and frost-prone ground

  • Boundaries and ownership

Decorative and Working

Most growers want the map to do two things at once, and it can. As a decorative map it hangs in the tasting room or cellar door, naming the blocks and varietals for visitors and carrying the character of the estate, a piece in its own right and a quiet part of the brand. As a working map it serves the vineyard office: the same survey delivered as a wipe-clean board and through an app (LandApp in Britain, LandID in the United States), so the team can track blocks, plan spraying and harvest, see their position among the rows, and work offline. One survey, the wall and the office both.

“We are absolutely thrilled with the maps, both the delightful large format decorative maps which our customers really enjoy on their visits to the vineyard, and the range of functional maps we had produced for management purposes which we have come to rely on in our operation of the estate.”
— Gusbourne Estate - English Wine Producer of the Year
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Every block and parcel is named and recorded with its varietals and areas, and clones, rootstocks and year of planting where you hold them.

  • That is what most growers ask for. The same survey produces a decorative map for the tasting room and a working version for the office, delivered as a wipe-clean board and through LandApp or LandID for use in the field.

  • Yes, on the same basis: variety by variety, block by block, with the buildings and the wider estate recorded alongside.

  • For a full commission, yes. A studio map, made remotely from your data and aerial imagery, is available for a single site or as a first step.

  • UK vineyard maps start from £12,000. International commissions are priced individually. Contact us to discuss your estate.