Black Chalk: visiting one of the UK’s leading sparkling wineries
Chance delivered both opportunity and killer blows to Black Chalk in quick succession – it was to prove the making
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England
Boom times for English wine: latest figures from WineGB
OK stats geeks, here are the latest figures from WineGB, showing the extent of growth of the UK wine production
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Visiting Gutter & Stars, an urban winery in a Cambridge windmill
Website: https://www.gutterandstars.co.uk/ Chris Wilson is a journalist-turned-winemaker. He was – and still is – a wine journalist, but turned to
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New releases from Flint Vineyards, East Anglia
I’ve written about impressive East Anglian winery Flint wines before here and here. They are doing some interesting things. I
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Highlights: two from Digby Fine English
Digby Fine English is tilting at the top. This is a negociant house (although they’ve recently bought the 4 hectare
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Lyme Bay: impressive still wines from this Devon-based producer
Lyme Bay, a winery based in Axeminster, Devon but sourcing grapes from top sites across England, are on a bit
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Highlights: two wines from Penn Croft, a regeneratively farmed vineyard in Hampshire
Website: https://penncroftvineyards.com/pages/sustainability Simon Porter is a farmer, and owner of the Penn Croft winery in Hampshire. He’s been farming regeneratively
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Catching up with Nyetimber, England’s Sparkling Champion
As has been widely chronicled, Nyetimber is the largest, and best known English sparkling wine producer, and their growth and
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Highlights: two top whites from Tillingham, Sussex, England
I’ve written about Tillingham, one of the UK’s most exciting wineries, before on this site. Here are notes on two
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South Africa comes to England: we introduce medieval Mousehall, the new Jordan winery and distillery in Mayfield, East Sussex
Gary and Kathy Jordan are well known for their Stellenbosch winery. But back in 2018 they began their quest for
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