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Welcome to Lost in a Field

Lost in a Field is on a mission to rescue the UK’s forgotten heritage grape varieties and craft vibrant, low-intervention pét-nat wines.

We celebrate old vines and the eccentric spirit of British wine pioneers from the 1960s–80s, turning neglected plots into stories worth sharing.

Through our Lost Vineyard Preservation Society, we unite communities, restore vines, and host unforgettable events.

Think different. Drink different. Join us, drink the 🌈

DOES MY PÉT-NAT LOOK BIG IN THIS?

MAGNUM FORCE 💪💪💥💥🍾🍾

Records SMASHED at the London Wine Fair as Tze Sam MW sets a new time for removing the wax off a magnum of Lost in a Field “Frolic” pét-nat 💥 🏆 🥉
Makes me suspect this isn’t her first waxed Frolic magnum opening rodeo 🤔 or maybe it’s part of the current MW tasting paper? 😆

@lost_in_a_field @london_wine_fair @defined_wine @lescavesdepyrene @elevagewines.uk #heritagegrapevarieties #oldvines #englishpétnat #natural #notshit 🍾 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🍇 🦄 🌈

#drinkthe🌈

LONDON CALLING 🤘

Come and “drink the rainbow” at next week’s London Wine Fair 🌈

If you’re visiting the LWF next week come and find Lost in a Field and Lark & Folly in the Drinks Britannia section, stand GB09.

ONE DAY ONLY - We’ll be at the fair Tuesday 20th May - will you?

We’ll be pouring 2023 Lost in a Field “Frolic” pét-nat from bottle and MAGNUM. Yup, big guns out, and when it’s gone it’s gone. And in case you were wondering, yes, it does taste better from magnum 💪

The 2023 Lost in a Field “Frolic” English pét-nat is a blend of six heritage grape varieties from five vineyards in four different English counties; Herefordshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Kent, comprising Madeleine Angevine (24%), Schönburger (21%), Müller-Thurgau (20%), Huxelrebe (16%), Reichensteiner (15%) and Triomphe d’Alsace (4%).

We’ll also be pouring Lark & Folly, our project to unearth abandoned and forgotten parcels of old English traditional method wines. As I’ve been travelling around the country for the last few years tracking down my “lost vineyards” I came across parcels of forgotten or abandoned traditional method wines.
The 2010 Kent Schönburger was a finished wines which we relabelled, so the bottles are under their original cork and cage closures. The property they came from, Groombridge Place, has recently been acquired by The Pig hotel group, the Schönburger vineyard has been pulled out and replaced with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The 2010 is looking remarkably fresh for its age and a pretty unique example of this variety made in the traditional method style.

The 2006 East Sussex Reichensteiner / Huxelrebe was still on its lees when we discovered it, so we riddled, disgorged and dosed at 8 g/l then labelled and closed with a crown cap. It shows all the mature characters of a mature traditional method wine (honey, nuts, baked apple) and as far as I know is the oldest example of English trad method available on the market.It’s got real WOW factor in the glass, and with 16 years on lees is pretty unique.

Stand GB09 - c u there!

@london_wine_fair @defined_wine @lescavesdepyrene @lost_in_a_field @lark_and_folly @thebuyer11 #drinkthe🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🦄 🍾 🍇

@breaky_bottom @sugruesouthdowns @titchhillwines @rob_buys_wine

NO WAY NORWAY !!! 🇳🇴

To celebrate the fact that Norway is the only country that imports both my English and Australian pét-nats, I went there!

Kicked off with Vinmonopolet staff wine fair, evening residency at Nektar Vin Bar, meetings, tastings and my first taste of Norwegian “hiking chocolate” Kvikk Lunsj (not a KitKat) and breakfast delicacy Brunost (translates as Brown Cheese, which is nicer than it sounds)

Also some wonderful and unexpected James Busby Travel Alumni reunions @ainamee @selskapet

@lost_in_a_field @wildmanwine @thewinemerchantnorway @nondosfanclub @nektarvinbar

BRÍT-NAT RISING 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍾

Look Mum! We’re in the press 👀

A David and Goliath story! 💪

As told by by talented Lucy Shaw in The Drinks Business @wineandthecity @thedrinksbusiness

✨ English and Welsh pét-nat and col fondo

✨ attracting younger consumers

✨ vibrant alternative to trad method

✨ faster fizz to make & market

✨growing community of producers - up 80% in 2 years!

✨rainbow of flavours and colours 🌈

✨ brings much need diversity 😀

✨ Goldilocks zone in pricing 💸

✨move over English prosecco ➡️

✨ M&S start the mainstream revolution 💥

Read all about it on The Drinks Business “Top of the Pops: Brít-Nat takes on English sparkling”

@lost_in_a_field @lescavesdepyrene @marksandspencer @drornativ @defined_wine @thedrinksbusiness @wineandthecity @winegb

MAY YOU ALL GET WHAT YOU WISH FOR IN 2025

Stick a fork in me, I’m done

2024 was quite the ride. The day jobs brought their own challenges; the Herculean task of transitioning to certified organic for the 2024 Australian vintage of Wildman Wine (Astro Bunny and Piggy Pop pét-nats), the gawd awful wet and damp conditions in England for Lost in a Field pét-nat (yes, we made wine that we think will be #notshit, but volumes were down 60%), and along the way fitting in the second iteration of the BRÍT-NAT event bringing all the English and Welsh pét-nats together under one roof, rebuilding the WineTutor.tv website after a fatal hack in September (check it out now!) and in addition to all this, the not insignificant ascent of Everest in setting up a new film production business, involving two months filming in May and June with twelve wineries in six countries (Argentina, USA, France, UK, Germany, Portugal) to make the SUSTAINABILITY: COUNTDOWN TO 2030 series consisting of five one hour documentary length films aimed at a Master of Wine level of detail and depth, then five months of editing over the summer and designing and launching the new film company website ONE THIRD FILMS - the documentaries all free to view on WineTutor.tv and OneThirdFilms.studio.

And don’t get me started on the trellising in the garden and keeping the slugs off the sunflowers

I don’t think I’ve been so busy since I set up James Busby Travel in 2010 at the same time as holding down a full time job, which is self employed code for yes, I pretty much worked every weekend this year. Note to self, do not repeat.

So thank you 2024. In the words of Noel Coward, work is more fun than fun. Up to a point.
One more major project incoming for 2025, UK based. Watch this space.

2024 🖐️ 🎤 ⬇️ 💥

@wildmanwine @lost_in_a_field @winetutor.tv @lark_and_folly @jamesbusbytrav @one.third.films @mastersofwine @wbmmagazine @thebuyer11 @antonygmoss @bendowie_ #brítnat

Spreading some pét-nat love in London Town yesterday with the indefatigable @martinamarini @lescavesdepyrene @goldiesaloon @alfie.restaurant @sohailarestaurant @grapesandhops @392kingslandroad @themarqueemoon.uk @lost_in_a_field #drinkthe🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🍾 🦄 🌸

FRIDAY FROLIC FIZZY FUN 🌈🍾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💥

Hitting the hottest highlights of Hackney with @carlolupori @lescavesdepyrene thanks to everyone for taking the time to taste and chat. Many amazing insights, compliments and kind words, top 3 takeaways
1. That colour tho 😍 a lot of people (unprompted) mentioned the unusual colour, which was variously described as having a lavender hue, hazy and looking “tonic” 😇
2. Amazingly fully flavoured for the featherlight 9.5% ABV - the magic of our early ripening heritage grape varieties ✨
3. Surprising complexity and length for a deceptively simple, fresh and fun wine
LOVE THIS call
If there’s an added layer of complexity, some delightful detail and a surprisingly long finish, I can’t really take the credit, it’s thanks to the old vine complexity of our heritage varieties planted in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I call this part of the Venn diagram where subtle complexity meets smashable as THINK DRINKY 🤓 💥

@thebaring @107_e5 @brawn49 @shrinetothevine @bruno___london @hectorslondon @yukibar.london @sagerandwilde @lost_in_a_field #frolicpétnat #heritagegrapevarieties #lostvineyardpreservationsociety #englishpétnat #thinkydrinky #drinkthe🌈

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE….WITH REVIEWS OF FROLIC

What’s better than having one of the UK’s leading wine critics say nice things about your wine?
Having two of them agree!

Tamlyn Currin, who covers English wine for JancisRobinson.com, said some very nice things about the new vintage of the Lost in a Field “Frolic” English pét-nat 2023, whilst Olly Smith was no less enthusiastic in his comments.

“This is unfettered scrumptiousness!
Vivacious, roaring, harmonious and the very sending of joy.
Such living wine, makes me so happy”
- Olly Smith

Golly Olly, we feel seen 👀

“Cloudy grapefruit pink. Smells like the sea. Really clean nose. Flowers and strawberries and grapefruit. Bone dry with very, very fine bubbles. It’s delicate fruit and citrus first, then coiled in the middle a quinine and maritime saltiness; pink rock salt. A feeling of pith, fine-ground chalk, crab-apple tannins and a little bit of a hum of electric current. The total acidity is surprisingly low for an English wine, especially one that had to be picked relatively early. The acidity has no hard edges, just that lovely pithy pull and a sense of precise line. Crunchingly refreshing – the wine equivalent of a watermelon margarita (but without all the sugar and lower in alcohol). Pair with ceviche! Judging by the mini vertical (we also tasted the 2021 and 2022), it holds up remarkably well in bottle. In fact, I thought that the 2022 was even better a year later.”
16.5 points
- Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com September 2024

Totally Tangtastic Tam!
I’ve never had a watermelon margarita, but I’m reaching for the ingredients now! 🍉 🍸

@lost_in_a_field @ollysmith @tamlyncurrin @lescavesdepyrene @winegb @jancisrobinson @defined_wine @dwregg @parched.wine @grape_britannia
#frolicpétnat #drinkthe🌈

BLINK AND YOU MISS IT 👀

We picked a tonne of Madeline Angevine this morning in Herefordshire, we’ll pick a tonne of Reichensteiner tomorrow in Kent, and that ladies and gentleman, will be the story of the 2024 English vintage

An incredibly challenging year for grape growers where summer didn’t happen, September failed to save the day and October was a complete washout ☔️ 😬

Luckily I work with two amazing growers who put in all the hard work for twelve months so that even in a cluster duck year like this they can still get clean, ripe grapes over the finishing line in the last two weeks 🦆 🦆 🦆🍇 🏆 👏 👏

And the outcome? The 2024 Lost in a Field “frolic” pét-nat will drop a dress size for sure, both in scale and probably style. It’ll be our smallest ever vintage, 2000 bottles if we’re lucky, and the style may well be a little more delicate than previous years, but who knows, when you avoid tinkering in the winery (we won’t be chapitalising) you never quite know the natural path a wine will take

For now, good luck to the rest of the UK grape growing community, the struggle is real !

@lost_in_a_field @fromevalleyvineyard @winegb @lescavesdepyrene @will_rev212 @forestandfork @defined_wine 🍇 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🦄 #frolic #englishpétnat #drinkthe🌈

WE’RE PICKING GRAPES 🍇

COME AND JOIN THE FUN 🤩

FANCY BISCUITS GUARANTEED 🍭

The Lost Vineyard Preservation Society invites you to join our 2024 harvest team to pick heritage grape varieties for Lost in a Field “Frolic” pét-nat.

When? Saturday 12th October
Where? An organic vineyard in Herefordshire.
Why? Did I mention the fancy biscuits? Come join the fun!

The Lost in a Field grape harvest kicks off on Saturday 12th October in an organic vineyard in Herefordshire and we’d love to see you there!

We’ll be picking our most valuable and loved heritage variety, Madeleine Angevine from Frome Valley Vineyard in Herefordshire, a wonderful small grower who use sheep wool to mulch under their vines (see photo). The Madeleine Angevine contributes the aromatic and juicy satsuma and pink grapefruit characters to the Frolic pét-nat.

Details of the pick is below, if you could let me know by email if you can join us that would be great tim@lostinafield.com

Tea, coffee and fancy biscuits provided during the pick, followed by a home cooked lunch around the farmhouse table.

Wear wellies / boots - the grass will be wet.

Start time 9am or as soon as you can make it.
We’ll aim to finish picking by 3pm followed by lunch, depart 4pm

I’m afraid no children under 12 or dogs, we’ll be on working farms with machinery and equipment.

Saturday 12th October
Frome Valley Vineyard, Herefordshire
9am start, 4pm finish
Please bring your own water and snacks.
Tea and coffee provided
Address:
Frome Valley Vineyard
Paunton Court
Bishop’s Frome
Herefordshire
WR6 5BJ

If you think you’re be able to join us, please let me know by replying to tim@lostinafield.com

Hope to see you in a lost vineyard sometime soon!

Tim Wildman MW
Winemaker and Bottle Washer, Lost in a Field
@lost_in_a_field #drinkthe🌈 @fromevalleyvineyard
#heritagevarieties #lostvineyards #lostvineyardpreservationsociety #englishpétnat @lescavesdepyrene @winegb 🍇 🍾 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🦄 🌈

SUPER SOMM SUPER SIZED FUN

@sarahcwright opening @lost_in_a_field magnum at BRÍT-NAT tasting

👋🎤⬇️💥

See you again in two years time #BRÍTNAT 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍾 🦄 🌈 🥂

✨ BRÍT-NAT DONE ✅

✨ 33 producers
✨ 50 wines
✨ 55 trade and press guests
✨ The most comprehensive tasting of English and Welsh pét-nat, col fondo and méthode ancestral wines. EVER

👋 🎤 ⬇️ 💥

Press coverage to come … 👀

#brítnat #englishpétnat #welshpétnat @thebuyer11 🥂🇬🇧🍾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦄☀️
@ancrehill @arkwines @blackmountainvineyard @blackbookwinery @limneyfarm @domaine.hugo @topcuvee @gros.canon.wines @hamstreetwines @langhamwinery @littlepomona @limeburnhill @londoncru @lost_in_a_field @marksandspencer @drornativ @islandunasuedaniels @mattgregorywines @renegadeurbanwinery @sandridgebarton @slow____beam @tillinghamwines @trevibbanmill_vineyard @whinyardrocks @woodfine.wine @wooltonfarm @vagabondwines @vindemiate @numberswine @titchhillwines @quatromustachios @blackbookwinery @hiddenspringvineyard @sarahcwright @littlewaddonvineyard @thedellvineyard @lescavesdepyrene @winesutb @winegb

OH YOU PRETTY THINGS 🥰

✨ BRÍT-NAT 03.09.24

✅ WE DID IT!

✨ 33 producers
✨ 50 wines
✨ 55 trade and press guests
✨ The most comprehensive tasting of English and Welsh pét-nat, col fondo and méthode ancestral wines. EVER

👋 🎤 ⬇️ 💥

Press coverage to come … 👀

#brítnat #englishpétnat #welshpétnat @thebuyer11 🥂🇬🇧🍾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦄☀️
@ancrehill @arkwines @blackmountainvineyard @blackbookwinery @limneyfarm @domaine.hugo @topcuvee @gros.canon.wines @hamstreetwines @langhamwinery @littlepomona @limeburnhill @londoncru @lost_in_a_field @marksandspencer @drornativ @islandunasuedaniels @mattgregorywines @renegadeurbanwinery @sandridgebarton @slow____beam @tillinghamwines @trevibbanmill_vineyard @whinyardrocks @woodfine.wine @wooltonfarm @vagabondwines @vindemiate @numberswine @titchhillwines @quatromustachios @blackbookwinery @hiddenspringvineyard @sarahcwright @littlewaddonvineyard @thedellvineyard @lescavesdepyrene @winesutb @winegb

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Welcome to Lost in a Field

Lost in a Field is on a mission to rescue the UK’s forgotten heritage grape varieties and craft vibrant, low-intervention pét-nat wines.

We celebrate old vines and the eccentric spirit of British wine pioneers from the 1960s–80s, turning neglected plots into stories worth sharing.

Through our Lost Vineyard Preservation Society, we unite communities, restore vines, and host unforgettable events.

Think different. Drink different. Join us, drink the 🌈

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