ARTEFACT
Small batch, artisan wines.
Artefact Wine
The Artefact collection is a unique range of small batch artisan wines, made only in the finest years and produced in limited volumes. These collections are remarkable for various reasons, whether based on exceptional harvests, innovative wine making techniques, or creative blends.
Our Artefact range is a playground of experimentation, celebrating the ingenuity of our winemakers. To reflect this creativity, each Artefact wine is adorned with a new commissioned artwork from a contemporary artist that reflects its individual qualities.
This Maiden Harvest Chardonnay is the twelfth release in the Artefact series, and the very first still Chardonnay from our Madehurst vineyard. From Clone 548, known for producing wines of concentration & finesse, a wine of impressive character: bright and focused, with orchard fruit and citrus purity, layered with pastry richness, oak spice and a long, age worthy finish. Labels by Rosie Mortimer.
Grapes: Chardonnay
Alcohol: 13.5% Vol.
Bottles produced: 550
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Artefact #12 - Maiden Harvest Chardonnay
Wine Makers: Owen Elias & Solly Monyamane
Varieties: Chardonnay
Tasting Notes: A wine of impressive character: bright and focused, with orchard fruit and citrus purity, layered with pastry richness, oak spice and a long, age worthy finish.
Artist: Rosie Mortimer
About the label: Rosie Mortimer, winner of the 2024 Artelium Artefact Prize in collaboration with Sussex Contemporary, creates sculptures which explore absence, space, and the overlooked —reflecting themes of societies unheard voices. For two Artefact wines, Rosie’s designs reference her sculpture created for the estate, Surface, Edge, Shadow—a bisected form of iron and bronze, exploring division and how a simple barrier can grant or deny possibility.
Once this limited-release wine has sold through, the sculpture will remain on the estate as an Artefact of this unique wine.
This wine is generous yet finely balanced, offering a distinctive expression of this variety from our Madehurst vineyard’s first harvest in 2022. Textural and distinctive, with ripe peach, golden apple and baked pastry, underpinned by citrus freshness and nutty complexity. Labels by artist Rosie Mortimer.
Grapes: Pinot Gris
Alcohol: 13% Vol.
Bottles produced: 550
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Artefact #11 - Maiden Harvest Pinot Gris
Wine Makers: Owen Elias & Solly Monyamane
Varieties: Pinot Gris
Tasting Notes: This wine is generous yet finely balanced, offering a distinctive expression of this variety from our Madehurst vineyard’s first harvest in 2022. Textural and distinctive, with ripe peach, golden apple and baked pastry, underpinned by citrus freshness and nutty complexity
Artist: Rosie Mortimer
About the label: Rosie Mortimer, winner of the 2024 Artelium Artefact Prize in collaboration with Sussex Contemporary, creates sculptures which explore absence, space, and the overlooked —reflecting themes of societies unheard voices. For two Artefact wines, Rosie’s designs reference her sculpture created for the estate, Surface, Edge, Shadow—a bisected form of iron and bronze, exploring division and how a simple barrier can grant or deny possibility.
Once this limited-release wine has sold through, the sculpture will remain as an Artefact of this unique wine.
Crafted with precision, finished with a playful twist, Lil’Dizzy is a sparkling rosé which is easy to drink as it is hard to pin down. A carefully considered blend of Meunier, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir spent six months in oak barriques before a splash of Divico was added for colour and character, ahead of its second fermentation and seven months resting on lees for texture and depth.
Balancing craftsmanship with creativity, the name Lil’Dizzy is a nod to both the head-turning character in the glass and the unexpected twist in its making, a wine that leaves you delightfully off-balance. Labels by The Baron Gilvan.
Grapes: Meunier, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay & Divico
Alcohol: 11%
Bottles Produced: 500
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Artefact #10 - Lil’ Dizzy
Wine Makers: The winemaking team
Varieties: Meunier, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay & Divico
Tasting Notes: On the nose, expect sweet-sour cherries, crushed raspberries and rose petals. The palate bursts with crunchy Granny Smith apple, tart red berries, rhubarb tang and a whisper of umami with smoked wood on the finish. Bright, expressive and brimming with personality.
Artist: The Baron Gilvan
About the label: The Baron Gilvan worked with us on the labels, creating oil-stick-on-paper drawings inspired by each wine’s name, qualities and colours. From his first sketches emerged a jazz band of curious animal–human hybrids in an imagined underground cabaret — ‘wild ferment’ sparking the creatures, and ‘Cabaret Noir’ the instruments and performers. Each palette mirrors the wine’s personality: deep burgundy for Cabaret Noir, zesty orange for Skinny Gris, blanched green for Motley Wild, and bright ‘Opera Pink’ for Lil’ Dizzy.
Artefact #9 - Cabaret Noir
Wine Makers: Owen Elias & Solly Monyamane
Varieties: Cabaret Noir
Tasting Notes: A lively and generous wine with notes of black cherries, plums, freshly roasted cocoa beans, dates, cedar, and fresh-ground paprika. Rich and perfectly weighted with chewy, limber tannins.
Artefact #9 has sold out.
Artist: The Baron Gilvan
About the label: The Baron Gilvan collaborated with us on label designs for Artefacts #7, #8, & #9. His oil-stick on paper drawings were inspired by each wine’s names, qualities, and colours, the resulting artworks depicting a jazz band of curious characters indulging in a make-believe underground cabaret. The direction of the labels naturally formed itself through initial drawings. The idea of the ‘wild ferment’ informed the animal-human hybrids whilst the variety ‘Cabaret Noir’ inspired the inclusion of instruments and cabaret characters. The paint colours were inspired by the colours of each wine; deep burgundy for ‘Cabaret Noir’, zesty orange for ‘Skinny Gris’, and blanched green for ‘Motley Wild.
The three original designs have become part of Artelium’s permanent art collection and can be viewed in Artelium’s tasting room.
A characterful dry orange rosé with bright, mouth-watering acidity and crunchy tannins. The palate is intense and juicy, with flavours of pink rose petals, mixed red berries with woody undertones from barrel ageing. An energetic wine with some tension that will loosen with age.
Crafted by Winemakers Solly Monyamane & Owen Elias with labels from artist The Baron Gilvan.
Grapes: Pinot Gris
Alcohol: 11.5% Vol.
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Artefact #8 - Skinny Gris
Wine Makers: Owen Elias & Solly Monyamane
Varieties: Pinot Gris
Tasting Notes: A characterful dry orange rosé with bright, mouth-watering acidity and crunchy tannins. The palate is intense and juicy, with flavours of pink rose petals, mixed red berries with woody undertones from barrel ageing.
Artist: The Baron Gilvan
About the label: The Baron Gilvan collaborated with us on label designs for Artefacts #7, #8, & #9. His oil-stick on paper drawings were inspired by each wine’s names, qualities, and colours, the resulting artworks depicting a jazz band of curious characters indulging in a make-believe underground cabaret. The direction of the labels naturally formed itself through initial drawings. The idea of the ‘wild ferment’ informed the animal-human hybrids whilst the variety ‘Cabaret Noir’ inspired the inclusion of instruments and cabaret characters. The paint colours were inspired by the colours of each wine; deep burgundy for ‘Cabaret Noir’, zesty orange for ‘Skinny Gris’, and blanched green for ‘Motley Wild.
The three original designs have become part of Artelium’s permanent art collection and can be viewed in Artelium’s tasting room.
A fresh, elegant and thoughtful wild ferment from equal parts Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Gris.
This wine has an expression of mixed creamy layers of red fruits and yellow stone fruit, such as bright red strawberries, young cherries, freshly cut mango and ripening banana. Medium refreshing acidity with medium body with generous midpalate texture. Crafted by Winemakers Solly Monyamane & Owen Elias with labels from artist The Baron Gilvan.
Grapes: Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Gris
Alcohol: 11.5% Vol.
Non-mainland UK deliveries: please contact us for a price.
Our Wine Club members receive priority access to this and other limited releases. → Join the Club
Artefact #7 - Motley Wild
Wine Makers: Owen Elias & Solly Monyamane
Varieties: Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Gris
Tasting Notes: This wine has an expression of mixed creamy layers of red fruits and yellow stone fruit, such as bright red strawberries, young cherries, freshly cut mango and ripening banana.
Artist: The Baron Gilvan
About the labels: The Baron Gilvan collaborated with us on label designs for Artefacts #7, #8, & #9. His oil-stick on paper drawings were inspired by each wine’s names, qualities, and colours, the resulting artworks depicting a jazz band of curious characters indulging in a make-believe underground cabaret. The direction of the labels naturally formed itself through initial drawings. The idea of the ‘wild ferment’ informed the animal-human hybrids whilst the variety ‘Cabaret Noir’ inspired the inclusion of instruments and cabaret characters. The paint colours were inspired by the colours of each wine; deep burgundy for ‘Cabaret Noir’, zesty orange for ‘Skinny Gris’, and blanched green for ‘Motley Wild.
The three original designs have become part of Artelium’s permanent art collection and can be viewed in Artelium’s tasting room.
A rare and unique expression of English Pinot Noir. Grapes harvested in 2022 were crushed and left on their skins for two days before fermentation in a single puncheon of high-toast oak, where the wine was left to age for 10-months.
A rich and indulgent style of Rosé, full of savoury red fruits, citrus peel and pipe tobacco. Crafted by Winemaker Own Elias with labels from artist Walter Bailey.
Grapes: Pinot Noir
Alcohol: 12.5% Vol.
Bottles produced: 600
Non-mainland UK deliveries: please contact us for a price.
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Artefact #6 - Barrel Aged Saignée Rosé
Wine Maker: Owen Elias
Varieties: Pinot Noir
No. of Bottles: 600
Tasting Notes: A rare and unique expression of cool-climate Pinot Noir. Bright pink-grapefruit colour gives way to notes of savoury red fruits and spicy tobacco. A long and memorable finish.
Artist: Walter Bailey
About the label:The three label designs are from woodblock prints inspired by the drawn designs for the ‘Wood, Earth, Hoop’ sculpture by Bailey. The sculpture was installed in our Streat vineyard in May 2024 as part of Bailey’s solo show at the estate, which explored how life and landscape interconnect. The hoop is made from segments of pruned and storm-felled oak branches which were then charred, resonant of the high-toast oak barrels used for the fermentation and ageing of the wine.
Once this limited-release wine has sold through, the sculpture will remain as an Artefact of this unique wine.
Artefact #5 - Futures (Present)
Wine Maker: Owen Elias
Varieties: Pinot Gris
No. of Bottles: 250
Tasting Notes: Citrus & pear with delicate summer blossom and hints of crème brûlée, time spent in oak lends this wine a light spice.
Artist: Will Nash
Artefact #5 has sold out.
About the label: The artworks that wrap our ARTEFACT #4 and ARTEFACT #5 wines are designed by Nash, each limited to less than 300 bottles. Multiple grids of simple triangles and curves are superimposed to create prismatic patterns, orderly sequences decay into chaos the combine to find new order. This is influenced by the same isosceles triangles that are the origin of the sculpture Futures, Past which remains as a bold and beautiful reminder of this label collaboration.
Artefact #4 - Futures (Past)
Wine Maker: Owen Elias
Varieties: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Meunier & Gris
No. of Bottles: 250
Tasting Notes:Tasting Notes: This rich and textural white wine displays vanilla from oak ageing alongside notes of toffee, bright red apple and barbequed pineapple.
Artist: Will Nash
Artefact #4 has sold out.
About the label: The artworks that wrap our ARTEFACT #4 and ARTEFACT #5 wines are designed by Nash, each limited to less than 300 bottles. Multiple grids of simple triangles and curves are superimposed to create prismatic patterns, orderly sequences decay into chaos the combine to find new order. This is influenced by the same isosceles triangles that are the origin of the sculpture Futures, Past which remains as a bold and beautiful reminder of this label collaboration.
Artefact #3 - Barrel Aged White Pinot
Wine Maker: Owen Elias & Dermot Sugrue
No. of Bottles: 500 (Sold Out)
Tasting Notes: Cherry and white peach with a touch of almond on the palate.
Artist: Sarah Emily Porter
Artefact #3 has sold out.
About the label: The paintings were inspired by the landscape and geometries found in and around the vineyard at Artelium and were created using her unique painting technique. Her poured paintings reflect the changing colours and structures of the vines during the seasons. The diagonal layout of the vineyard including the monumental V on the South Downs, overlooking the vineyard, have been manipulated mathematically to inform the pours. The colours represent the seasonal colour changes of the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines after the grape harvest. Half the vine leaves in the vineyard turn red, the other half yellow.
Artefact #2 - Barrel Aged Chardonnay
Wine Maker: Owen Elias
No. of Bottles: 500 (Sold Out)
Tasting Notes: Subtle spice on the nose from the oak and a zesty finish.
Artist: Sarah Emily Porter
Artefact #2 has sold out.
About the label: The paintings were inspired by the landscape and geometries found in and around the vineyard at Artelium and were created using her unique painting technique. Her poured paintings reflect the changing colours and structures of the vines during the seasons. The diagonal layout of the vineyard including the monumental V on the South Downs, overlooking the vineyard, have been manipulated mathematically to inform the pours. The colours represent the seasonal colour changes of the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines after the grape harvest. Half the vine leaves in the vineyard turn red, the other half yellow.
Artefact #1 - Barrel Aged Pinot Noir
Wine Maker: Owen Elias
No. of Bottles: 500 (Sold Out)
Tasting Notes: Delicious notes of coffee and chocolate with abundant red berries.
Artist: Sarah Emily Porter
Artefact #1 has sold out.
About the label: The paintings were inspired by the landscape and geometries found in and around the vineyard at Artelium and were created using her unique painting technique. Her poured paintings reflect the changing colours and structures of the vines during the seasons. The diagonal layout of the vineyard including the monumental V on the South Downs, overlooking the vineyard, have been manipulated mathematically to inform the pours. The colours represent the seasonal colour changes of the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines after the grape harvest. Half the vine leaves in the vineyard turn red, the other half yellow.
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