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About Stanlake Park
Berkshire wine since 1979.
Settled in 130 acres of peaceful English countryside, Stanlake Park is an impressive historical estate in the Royal County of Berkshire. Built for the first time in 1166, its charming main barn houses one of the oldest and largest wineries in the area, and is able to process 70 tonnes of grapes.
Nico Centonze, Stanlake Park’s skilful Italian winemaker, personally takes care of our 10 acres of vineyards and produces a wide range of wines, including white, rosé, red and English sparkling, using our own grapes.
Customers are welcome to visit our Wine & Gift Shop, as well as to enjoy a glass of wine with some nibbles in our charming Wine Bar and Garden. Tours and Tastings are organised all year round.
Nico Centonze, Winemaker
Nico Centonze was born into a wine making family in Puglia, southern Italy and attended the Viticulture and Oenology University in Tuscany then Piedmont. It was here that he met his soulmate Natalia Pezzone. Natalia was working at a Veterinary School in Turin and both liked to travel.
Nico’s first professional winemaker role was in the Rioja region in Argentina, the home country of Natalia. From here, he returned to Puglia to help with the family grape harvest whilst Natalia worked as a researcher in Madrid. She moved to Puglia in 2010 after deliberately missing her flight home to Argentina so she too could start her career in wine.
After this period, they both packed their bags and moved to the UK and Nico secured a position at the renowned Nyetimber in West Sussex. Unfortunately Natalia didn’t have an EU passport at this time so they relocated to Bordeaux in South West France.
