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England Features 

Domaine Hugo and Offbeat Wines: naturally made in a Wiltshire winery, these are some of the UK’s most compelling wines

July 12, 2022August 3, 2022 Lisse Garnett 6978 Views Natural wine

Jamie Goode and Lisse Garnett meet two exceptional producers who together make some of the best wines on offer in

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Black Chalk: visiting one of the UK’s leading sparkling wineries

June 23, 2022August 3, 2022 Lisse Garnett 6755 Views

Chance delivered both opportunity and killer blows to Black Chalk in quick succession – it was to prove the making

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England Features 

Boom times for English wine: latest figures from WineGB

June 17, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 4156 Views

OK stats geeks, here are the latest figures from WineGB, showing the extent of growth of the UK wine production

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Highlights: two from Digby Fine English

May 22, 2022May 22, 2022 jamiegoode 3923 Views

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

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 jamiegoode 3759 Views

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

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 jamiegoode 5051 Views

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

April 13, 2022May 15, 2022 Treve Ring 6993 Views Sparkling wine

As has been widely chronicled, Nyetimber is the largest, and best known English sparkling wine producer, and their growth and

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England Highlights 

Highlights: two top whites from Tillingham, Sussex, England

March 15, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 4367 Views

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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England Features 

English Chardonnay: a quality revolution

January 22, 2022February 25, 2022 jamiegoode 7533 Views Chardonnay

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

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England Features 

Freedom of the Press: an exciting new English winery

January 20, 2022 jamiegoode 5207 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

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Californians Jasmine Hirsch and Michael Cruse are partners in life and wine, and they came to London to share their

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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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