Cobrey Farms

What Cobrey Farms does

Cobrey Farms is a family-run agricultural business founded in 1925 by Wilfred Chinn and now owned and operated by the Chinn family, headquartered in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom. The company cultivates approximately 3,500 acres across Herefordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, producing premium fresh produce under the Wye Valley brand — asparagus, fine and green beans, blueberries and forced rhubarb — alongside potatoes (including crisping and Maris Peer varieties), combinable crops (wheat, barley, oilseed rape, herbage seed), and English sparkling wine through its wholly-owned Castle Brook Vineyard subsidiary.

The business has pioneered season-extension agronomy that delivers UK-grown asparagus from February through November, well beyond the traditional British growing window, supported by an on-site packhouse with advanced cooling and packing infrastructure (8,500 tonnes of cold storage capacity for potatoes, 2,500 tonnes of grain storage) capable of delivering field-to-fork in as little as 24 hours for beans. Approximately 1,000 seasonal workers are employed annually across the three county sites, alongside 20+ permanent office, packhouse and farm staff; labour is recruited via a multilingual recruitment operation targeting Eastern European markets.

Cobrey operates a primarily B2B sales-led model, supplying major UK national supermarket chains (its primary segment), wholesale produce markets, food processors and local restaurants and pubs. Ancillary revenue streams include combinable crop sales to global commodity markets and direct-to-consumer / e-commerce wine sales via the Castle Brook Vineyard brand. The company remains privately held with no external investment or parent structure identified, and no public revenue disclosure is available.

Name

Cobrey Farms

Legal name

Cobrey Farm

Website

https://cobrey.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1925

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Cobrey Farms is a family-run UK agricultural business (founded 1925) operating 3,500 acres across Herefordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, producing and supplying Wye Valley-branded asparagus, beans, blueberries, rhubarb, potatoes, and combinable crops — alongside Castle Brook Vineyard sparkling wine — to national supermarkets, wholesale markets, food processors, and local restaurants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fresh Produce

NAICS

Other Crop Farming (1119), Berry (except Strawberry) Farming (111334), Grape Vineyards (111332)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Fresh Produce Packhouses (Fruits & Vegetables) (AFAOAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Vineyard Establishment & Development (Site Prep, Trellising, Planting) (AFAGAJAA)

Keywords

• Fresh produce farming
• Asparagus cultivation
• Berry production
• Potato growing
• Vineyard operations

Headquarters

HQ city

Ross On Wye

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Fresh Produce Sales: Sales of fresh vegetables including asparagus, green beans, blueberries, rhubarb and potatoes to national supermarkets, local restaurants, and wholesale markets. Products sold under Wye Valley branded labels.
2. Wine Sales: Castle Brook Vineyard produces English sparkling wines under PDO scheme. Sales through farm, online, and stockists. Trophy-winning wines including Castle Brook Classic Cuvée.
3. Combinable Crops: Wheat, barley, oilseed rape and herbage seed grown in rotation, sold to meet global market demands with standards exceeding Assured Combinable Crops Scheme requirements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cobrey Farms is a multi-site agricultural producer growing and supplying premium British fresh produce — asparagus, fine beans, blueberries, rhubarb, potatoes, and combinable crops — under the Wye Valley brand to supermarkets, restaurants, processors, and wholesale markets. It also produces English sparkling wine through its Castle Brook Vineyard. The farm runs an on-site packhouse for customer-specific grading, cooling and packing.

Product overview

Cobrey Farms is a family-run agricultural business operating as a single unified farm enterprise. The core offering consists of premium produce grown under the Wye Valley Produce brand (asparagus, blueberries, fine beans, rhubarb), potatoes and combinable crops, alongside Castle Brook Vineyard for English sparkling wine. The business also operates an on-site packhouse for customer-specific packing requirements and employs seasonal workers across multiple sites (Herefordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk) for harvesting, picking, grading, and packing operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Castle Brook Vineyard: PDO English sparkling wine produced on south-facing slopes of the River Wye using traditional Champagne varieties and methods.
• Wye Valley

Products and services

• Wye Valley Asparagus Premium British asparagus grown in the Wye Valley, supplied from February to November using pioneered season-extension techniques to local restaurants, national supermarkets, and wholesale markets.
• Wye Valley Blueberries High-quality blueberries harvested from June to October, managed across targeted varieties and locations with advanced cooling and packing techniques, supplied to retail and wholesale customers.
• Wye Valley Fine Beans Fine and green dwarf beans grown and packed from June through October, delivering consistent high-quality retail and wholesale packs with rapid field-to-fork turnaround.
• Wye Valley Rhubarb Forced rhubarb supplied to local restaurants, pubs, and selected wholesale markets, with a strong provenance story in the Wye Valley region.
• Potatoes (Crisping & Maris Peer)

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Wilkin & Sons (Tiptree): Essex-based grower and preserves manufacturer with its own fruit farms and consumer brands. Comparable to Cobrey as a vertically integrated UK fruit grower with branded consumer products and multi-channel distribution.

Direct peers

• Nyetimber: Leading English sparkling wine producer using traditional Champagne varieties and methods. Comparable to Cobrey's Castle Brook Vineyard as a PDO English sparkling wine peer in the same product category.
• Ridgeview Wine Estate: Sussex-based English sparkling wine producer focused on premium PDO wines. Comparable to Castle Brook Vineyard as a trophy-winning English sparkling wine peer with on-site direct sales and hospitality.
• Chapel Down: England's largest wine producer with broad distribution across UK retail, hospitality and direct-to-consumer. Comparable to Castle Brook Vineyard as a UK wine brand pursuing premium positioning and DTC growth.
• Berry Gardens: UK berry growers' cooperative supplying major supermarkets with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. Directly comparable to Cobrey as a UK fresh-produce supplier serving national retailers with similar customer concentration.
• E Oldroyd & Sons: Yorkshire-based grower historically known for forced rhubarb production. Comparable to Cobrey as a UK specialist rhubarb and asparagus supplier serving premium retail and foodservice channels.
• Hugh Lowe Farms: One of the UK's largest berry producers, supplying soft fruit to major UK retailers. Comparable to Cobrey's Wye Valley blueberry business as a UK soft-fruit grower with supermarket channel focus.
• Hambledon Vineyard: Hampshire-based English sparkling wine producer using traditional Champagne methods. Comparable to Castle Brook Vineyard as a UK sparkling wine producer in the same premium, traditional-method category.
• T H Clements: UK fresh produce grower (brassicas, vegetables) supplying major UK supermarkets. Comparable to Cobrey as a large-scale UK vegetable producer with direct retailer supply relationships.
• Angus Soft Fruits: Scotland-based soft fruit grower supplying UK and European retailers with berries. Comparable to Cobrey as a UK berry producer with similar retail distribution model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments1 record

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