WHITE HERON ESTATE TOURS
NEW from April 2025: e-Bike tours. Explore the White Heron Estate - set in the rolling hills of Herefordshire - a 4th generation working farm with 150 acres of blackcurrants, 35 acres of vineyards and 55 acres of cider apple orchards. We are proud of our heritage and history, and love to entertain visitors on our e-Bike or walking tours. Walking tours can be arranged all year round, whilst the e-Biking tours will run from April to October. Never ridden an e-Bike before? Don't worry, it's easy and we give you a quick training course and tuition before we start out. Link here to watch an abbreviated version of one of our estate e-Bike tours.
This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
E-Bike Tours
From April 2025. E-Bike Tour and Tastings £50pp. With local fare lunch £75pp. With gourmet off-grid feast £95pp. Duration approx 2.5 hrs
As you meander (or zoom, if you prefer) through our vineyards, apple orchards and blackcurrant fields, you will stop periodically en route to hear tales of the history and heritage of the farm. You will travel around and taste the fruits of this land crops at their freshest (in season), and see first hand the biodiversity and environmental agriculture schemes that we have introduced. There will be tastings of our delicious award-winning British Cassis liqueur, British Framboise, White Heron Estate Sparkling Wine as well as our estate apple juice and cider. Enjoy an off-grid lunch or dinner made from a selection of fresh, locally sourced, high quality produce, at our colossal sheltered oak table overlooking the vineyards.
White Heron Meander
Dates: 10-13 June & 16-19 September £750pp sharing/£995pp single (half board). Tastings, breakfasts and evening meals included. Lunches and additional alcoholic drinks not included.
Tuesday pm: Arrive at our flagship property, The Colloquy, and chill by the pool. Enjoy a late afternoon e-Bike guided tour of the White Heron Estate, and alfresco dinner overlooking the vineyard. Wednesday: cycle to Hay-on-Wye (20 miles) through stunning Welsh borders countryside, seeing unique churches and villages. After lunch, spend the afternoon browsing Hay's quirky independent stores and bookshops and visit Hay Castle before staying the night in safari-style tents at the Drovers Rest in the hills outside Hay, with a local fare BBQ dinner. Thursday: cycle 20 miles back through North Herefordshire lanes, via the famous black and white villages of Weobley and Pembridge (for lunch). Just 3 miles of cycling after lunch, then chill by the Colloquy pool before a deliciously fresh and seasonal dinner of locally sourced produce. Friday morning: departure.
Walking tours
Walking Tour & Tasting: £25pp. Add a local fare lunch: +£25pp. Add an off-grid gourmet meal after your walk: +£45pp. Includes a 200ml bottle of British Cassis. NB Tours run with a minimum of 10 people.
Stroll through our blackcurrant plantations, vineyards and orchards enjoying the fresh air and tranquillity of North Herefordshire, tasting our fruits at their freshest (in summer). You also visit our small artisan Cassiserie, where our award-winning British Cassis is made. If we're bottling Cassis when you're here, you can bottle your own. A cocktail-making demonstration follows (with sampling!). You will hear how White Heron founder, farmer Jo Hilditch, manages this vibrant farm and drinks business (amongst her other ventures) and how she battled Dragons on the road to success, and you will be able to stock your drinks cabinet if you like what you taste! (We're confident that you will).
This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Minimum e-Bike group size 10 (or minimum price for first 10 people £500 for bike tours). For open dates the tour will operate with 6 people or more and we reserve the right to cancel with 48 hours notice. The tour takes around 1.5 - 2 hours including the sampling.
Our e-Bikes are excellent quality road/off road bikes with good suspension and knobbly tyres.
Ridgeback bikes with Shimano batteries - 40/50 mile range.
Please ensure you wear suitable clothing and footwear for walking or cycling around the farm, especially if wet.
No flares please!
Enquire for prices or to curate your own bespoke tour jo@whiteherondrinks.co.uk. For our full farm website and info about our wider business check out www.whitternfarms.co.uk
