Thank you for your feedback. Your kind and positive comments on the vineyard tour and wine are very much appreciated. Sarah and I are truly sorry to read that you did not enjoy the five-star picnic experience, so prevalent in all the other reviews here on Tripadvisor. We work hard to avoid such dissapointment. In mitigation, we’d like to make an attempt at addressing some of your specific comments. The wording of your feedback might be misconstrued as suggesting that the cost of the picnic is £75. In fact, the cost of a picnic here at English Oak is £55 per person, the balance being the tour and wine tasting element, which you will see from our website, can be purchased separately for £20 per person. The ‘picnic’ is served at a table on the terrace overlooking the vineyard on a table with table cloth, flowers, crockery, cutlery etc. All produce in the picnic is indeed sourced from our local Waitrose store in Wimborne. We deliberately don’t open the packaging, as a) Waitrose confirm that items are pre washed and b) we wish to ensure that there can be no question of any ‘left over re-use’. Our guests receive purchases that are demonstrably exclusively for them on the day of their visit. We always talk to our picnic guests at their table, while at the same time taking care not to be too obtrusive, bearing in mind that they will be hearing plenty from us in the coming tour! Indeed, many of our picnic guests have deliberately booked with us for a nice private romantic occasion. As to your locally sourced expectation, please understand that due to the wide spectrum of the ‘fresh picnic’ content, not to mention additional provision for Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free and individual Likes and Dislike requests, all of which we try to accommodate, it is wholly impractical to additionally meet your locally sources & home-made expectation. We don’t at any point promote ourselves as a restaurant venue, merely a vineyard offering what most seem to regard as a picnic hamper, containing delicious quality content, all served in civilised comfort at the table overlooking an attractive vineyard - all of which is emphasised at the point of booking and on our website. Let’s now consider your comment on our apparent “one hell of a markup”. Remember that the cost for the picnic element is in fact £55 per person - here is a list of the standard picnic ingredients. Flowers on the table, one-use tablecloth & napkins, fresh baked bread, Greek salad, additional salad tomatoes, cream cheese and caviar, salmon, game pie, quiche, olives, selection of top end cheeses, humus crisps, in season desserts (typically summer puddings), fresh strawberries and cream – all served with two glasses of our sparkling wine. The cost of these items (without the additional higher cost of speciality dietary preferences) is £42.33pp From the remaking balance of £12.67pp, we must order these items, drive to collect them, fill the hamper, lay up the table, serve the hamper, serve the wine, clear the table, wash -up and clean down the area. We honestly fail to see any evidence of “one hell of a markup” here? Of course, you could very well have purchased these items yourself and consumed them in your own garden, but we believe that most if not all of our guests prefer to replace their garden view with one of a beautifully maintained vineyard and value a break from all of the tasks described in the paragraph above, accepting the inevitable small additional cost for the privilege. You didn't provide any contact information in your feedback, but we would be delighted if you would get in touch and accept our sincere invitation to walk a mile in our shoes, to Waitrose and back etc, as our guest picnic host for a day. You may re-appraise some if not all of your kind feedback which as you can see we have carefully considered. In any event, please contact us and we will gladly refund the profit we made from your visit, as set out above, in recognition of your disappointment for which we can only apologise. Sarah and Andrew