The Uncommon

Meet High Tease and Tempting Fete! Our first ever bottled wines. High Tease - a crisp, aromatic English white. Bacchus and Chardonnay. Tempting Fete - a dry, pale English rosé. Pinot Noir. Both from our outstanding 2025 English vintage. Both regeneratively grown on the North Kent Downs. Both bottled in 395g lightweight glass - around 28% lighter than the UK average. We built The Uncommon around cans because they fit modern life. Single-serve, lower impact, made for anywhere. That isn't changing. But there are tables where cans might not be the first choice. Restaurants. Hotels. Long lunches where wine is meant to be poured, shared and sat with. Where English wine should feel like a natural pick from the list. So we made these. Still unbelievably good. Still unmistakably English. If you run a wine list and want to be among the first to pour them, drop us a message.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗢𝗡: 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗪𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗗 🥂 2025 was a big year for The Uncommon - for the wine, the business, and the team. Here’s how it looked from our end.   𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 – Saying “this feels like a rosé evening” without checking the weather, the calendar, or reality. 17 times – Drinking English wine while explaining to someone else why English wine is actually good now. 231 times – Decanting a can into a fancy glass just to feel something. 0 times (we swear) – Calling it “a quick glass” and then reappearing three hours later with stories. 14 times   𝗕𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 (𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹) – One can opened every time someone said “Can I have a can?” – 87 separate conversations that began with “Does it come in a bottle?” – One marathon PB, fuelled by optimism and probably not wine (but maybe we’ll say it was in some ads) – 0 more children. Still just six, thanks for asking   𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗵𝗶𝘁𝘀 – Launching The Lawn Box with The Fieldbar Co. and immediately wanting to keep one – Getting Flo’s hand into The Observer UK (career highlight, for the hand) – Recertifying as a B Corp (again, because we like doing things properly) – Launching Christmas crackers with Diggle – Selling out of said crackers faster than anyone predicted and not even having any ourselves. Christmas was ruined, poor us   𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗲𝗿𝗮 (𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘆) – A garden party with Alice Satterthwaite – Cans & Canapés with Genevieve Harris (still dreaming about the blinis) – Starting The Uncommon Club (turns out we like making new friends) – Taking said friends down to the vineyard and pretending it was casual.   𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱 - Wimbledon - Pret - The National Trust  - Tesco (All places we never imagined our cans would end up. Yet here we are)   𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲, 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗭𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 – Went big on festivals – Went bigger on billboards – Still haven’t picked up the accent   𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 Eleanor. Still the people’s favourite. Still some sophisticated trouble   𝗨𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 More wine. More moments. More people saying “I didn’t know England made wine like this”. If you stocked us, poured us, partnered with us, questioned us, and recommended us this year - thank you 🙏 Same again next year?

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!  This year, we’ve reimagined the humble Christmas cracker. Gone are the sad key rings and mysterious paper clips. In their place, you’ll discover a perfectly petite can of our English bubbly wine, alongside handmade truffles crafted exclusively by Diggle Chocolates. All wrapped in crackers adorned with our illustrations. And yes, the inevitable paper crown and joke are still there. Some traditions must remain. Selling alarmingly fast, so no dawdling 🔔. These are the crackers our tables deserve. https://lnkd.in/etm4ix45

Our Gerald is OFFICIALLY “Better than I thought”! 🙏   Thank you very much Saturday Kitchen. And no, we’re not being sarcastic.    It’s aaaalways the way…   Olly Smith poured it. Alex Jones took a sip. A pause. Admittedly, quite a sizeable pause. Then… “Well, that’s better than I thought.”   A mix of befuddlement and surprise.   A moment later: “It’s VERY nice actually.”   Someone else then pipes up with… “You wouldn’t think it was out of a can, would you?”   That’s exactly what we live for. The look of mild confusion turning into pure delight. The “Wait… hang on… this is actually delicious?” moment.   Because yes, it’s wine. Yes, it’s in a can. And yes - it’s unbelievably good.   Born on the North Kent Downs. Grown regeneratively. Crafted so well it’ll convert even the most sceptical of sippers 🥂

Harvest is in full swing 🍇 Last week, we welcomed six brilliant Levy colleagues who have completed their Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) qualification, to our vineyard in the North Kent Downs for a closer look at the English wine harvest. We strolled the rows, talked about regenerative farming, watched pickers in action, and tasted grapes fresh off the vine (spoiler: they’re absolutely delicious) All the hallmarks of a vintage to remember....

Harvest 2025: Is this England’s finest ever vintage?   Across the country, vines have been heavy with some of the very best fruit this country has ever seen. In our North Kent Downs vineyard, harvest is in full swing, but there’s no resting until the last grape is in.   But so far, they are looking like absolute beauties. Clean, ripe, balanced.   After the challenges of 2024, 2025 has been a delight: a hot, steady growing season, even flowering, and low disease pressure. What every grower dreams of (if they manage to get any sleep in the lead up to harvest).   This is of course still England, so September brought rain - but by then, much of the work was done. With fruit this healthy and rapid ripening, we took the time to leave them on vine a little longer to develop flavour and texture.    We saw similar things here in 2018. That’s when Pinots bring juicy red fruits and softer tannins, and Bacchus tips into riper, more aromatic styles. 2025 has the same hallmarks. Not every vineyard will get there, but the potential for still wines is especially exciting.   So, the foundations have been set for the making of world-class English wine.   A few weeks ago, Nyetimber's Blanc de Blancs 2016 was crowned the best in the world - beating Champagne for the first time. A milestone for the entire English wine sector. So, the quality here is already undeniable, but this vintage really is shaping up to be a doozy.

We’re proud to be featured in Levy's 2025 Climate Impact Report as a supplier helping drive positive change across their venues 🌎   Levy isn't just any old hospitality business – it’s one of the UK’s biggest and best, serving hundreds of thousands of meals every week at iconic sporting and entertainment venues across the UK and Ireland.    A giant 🚢. And giants aren’t usually known for being nimble or green.   With that kind of scale, making sustainability swaps isn’t easy. But they’re proving it can be done.   Real change doesn’t come from glossy promises. It comes from action.   A few of Levy’s stand-out moves: 🍔 Pioneering ingredient swaps like beef to wild venison (which has 85% less carbon footprint than beef, kg for kg) 🌊 Introducing seaweed-based packaging from Notpla. 🌾 Swapping to Wildfarmed regenerative flour - now 90% of contracted flour spend. 🌳 Creating their Biohub in North Yorkshire – a 92-acre regenerative agriculture initiative and R&D facility.    They’re setting the standard - and they also nudge, cajole, and challenge their suppliers (that’s us 👋) to do better too.   A true example of action at scale, and we’re proud to be on the journey with them. Read the report at https://planet.levy.co.uk/