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English Chardonnay: a quality revolution

January 22, 2022 jamiegoode 464 Views Chardonnay

It’s interesting times for English still wines at the moment, and one variety catching the eye is Chardonnay. Sommelier Donald

January 20, 2022 jamiegoode 515 Views

Website: https://www.freedomofthepress.co.uk/ Gavin Carver established Freedom of the Press winery in 2020. Initially, it was to be an urban winery

January 18, 2022 jamiegoode 390 Views pinot noir

This is an impressive Pinot Noir showing the still wine potential of the Crouch Valley in Essex. It’s sourced from

The Crouch Valley in Essex is turning out to be a hotspot for still English wines. The reason? It is

There is a lot of excitement about the Crouch Valley in Essex, which is emerging as a top wine growing

Flint are based in East Anglia, and I’ve reviewed them before here. They have just released two small production wines

Website: https://simpsonswine.com/ Jamie Goode and Lisse Garnett visit a relatively new winery in the Kent North Downs who are making

November 19, 2021 jamiegoode 1108 Views

Jamie Goode and Lisse Garnett visit the Simpsons winery in East Kent. In 2016 Charles and Ruth Simpson, who’d already

In the third of our series on English wine, Lisse Garnett speaks to three contrasting wine producers about this year’s

Robin Hutson’s first hotel chain, Hotel du Vin was responsible for conceptualizing a generation’s understanding of ‘boutique’. In the 80s