Mountfield Winery

The starting point

Mountfield Winery is a Sussex vineyard selling English sparkling wine, tours and tastings. Their previous website ran on an ageing content-management system on legacy hosting: workable, but heavy to maintain, and the online sales side needed rebuilding properly rather than patching.

What we built

In March 2026 we migrated the site off the old platform and rebuilt it on hosting we manage, at mountfieldwinery.com. The centrepiece is a custom online shop: card payments through Stripe, automatic order confirmations, and an order pipeline the winery uses to track each order through to dispatch. No off-the-shelf shop platform, no plugin stack, just the functionality the business actually needs.

In June 2026 we added card-purchasable gift vouchers for the winery's tours, tastings and picnics, sold through the same Stripe integration, so a present for a wine lover can be bought in under a minute.

How it runs

An online shop is not something you launch and forget. We monitor the payment pipeline, verify that Stripe webhooks are delivering cleanly, and check orders through to fulfilment, so problems are caught by us rather than by a customer. The shop has been taking and fulfilling real orders since launch.

What this shows

E-commerce for a small business does not have to mean wrestling a heavyweight platform. A focused custom shop can be faster, simpler to run, and shaped around how the business actually works, then looked after as part of an ordinary care plan. What a Studio shop includes is set out on our online shops page. This is a different kind of project from our Forest Joinery local SEO work, and that is rather the point: the build fits the business.