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England Profiles 

The wines of Hidden Spring, Sussex, England

August 3, 2020 jamiegoode 5555 Views

Website: https://www.hiddenspring.co.uk/ In 2014 Dr David McNally and Chris Phipps bought a 23 acre campsite in Horam, East Sussex, and

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Interview: Dr Greg Dunn, head of the wine division, Plumpton College

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 jamiegoode 9464 Views

With the expansion of the UK’s wine industry, Plumpton College in Sussex has emerged as an internationally relevant centre for

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Fizzy Bum Bum Pet Nat 2019 Cornwall, England

May 26, 2020 jamiegoode 6780 Views Pet Nat, Sparkling wine

Few will get to try this micro-production wine, but I wanted to include it here, because it shows how good

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Nyetimber plants another 40 hectares

May 18, 2020June 23, 2020 jamiegoode 7553 Views

It’s amazing to see how far English sparkling wine has come in a very short time. It was only last

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England Features Profiles 

Rathfinny, one of England’s top sparkling wine producers

May 16, 2020 jamiegoode 9006 Views Sparkling wine

It has been 10 years since Mark and Sarah Driver first bought the land that is now Rathfinny Estate, one

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England Videos 

Highlights: Simpsons Gravel Castle Chardonnay 2019 England

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 jamiegoode 4769 Views Chardonnay

The future for English sparkling wine is bright. Still wines? I’ve been a bit sceptical of these, although of late

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Highlights: Wiston Blanc de Blancs 2015 England

April 15, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 5238 Views Sparkling wine

Another really impressive sparkling wine from England. The vineyard is 6.5 hectares planted in 2006, on chalk soils of the

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England Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Black Chalk Classic 2016 Hampshire, England

April 14, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 6342 Views Sparkling wine

Black Chalk began life as a side-gig for Hattingley Valley winemaker Jacob Leadley. It was a joint venture with his

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England Profiles 

Flint Vineyard, an exciting new producer from East Anglia, England

March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 jamiegoode 7923 Views

Ben and Hannah Witchell are the dudes behind Flint Vineyard, which is based in south Norfolk. They caught the wine

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England Videos 

Visiting London urban winery Vagabond

March 17, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 6427 Views urban winery

Gavin Monery is an Australian winemaker who’s made a name for himself for making stylish wines from urban wineries in

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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
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Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

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Wine anorak is one of the leading wine websites. This is the latest version of the site that began life in 1999, and was founded by Jamie Goode, who at the time was working as a science editor.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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Disclosure: unless otherwise clearly marked, the articles on this site are free of conflicts of interest. Any sponsored content will be clearly marked, and potential conflicts of interest will also be disclosed. As is normal in the wine industry, many of the wines tasted here are free samples and some travel is sponsored by others (for example, regional bodies or groups of producers), but in these cases no guarantees of coverage are given.

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