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Video: visiting Busi-Jacobsohn, a new sparkling wine producer in East Sussex, England

July 15, 2021 jamiegoode 3914 Views

You can read a full write-up of the visit here https://wineanorak.com/2021/06/22/busi-jacobsohn-and-exciting-new-english-sparkling-wine-producer/

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Busi-Jacobsohn, an exciting new English sparkling wine producer

June 22, 2021July 15, 2021 jamiegoode 6124 Views

Website: https://www.busijacobsohn.com/ Based in Eridge, near Tunbridge Wells, a new sparkling wine producer has sprung up. Busi-Jacobsohn. Susanna Busi Jacobsohn

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Louis Pommery Brut NV England

June 10, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 5656 Views Sparkling wine

Champagne Pommery made the news in 2014 when they decided to start an operation in Hampshire, England, in partnership with

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England Highlights 

Highlights: two innovative wines from Litmus, England

June 9, 2021June 13, 2021 jamiegoode 3703 Views orange wine, pinot noir

Impressed by these two quite innovative wines from Litmus Wines, a winemaking consultancy based at Denbies winery in Surrey. Litmus

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Urban Foxes, England

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 jamiegoode 4122 Views

Website: https://www.urbanfoxeswinery.com/ Urban Foxes is the English sparkling and still wine project of Colette O’Leary and Rebecca Coates. They are

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Sugrue ‘The Trouble With Dreams’ – two versions of the same English sparkling wine

April 29, 2021May 3, 2021 jamiegoode 7990 Views

Dermot Sugrue is one of the most respected sparkling winemakers in the UK. He was winemaker at Nyetimber for a

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Rathfinny Blanc de Blancs
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Highlights: Rathfinny Blanc de Blancs Brut 2017 Sussex, England

April 24, 2021April 26, 2021 jamiegoode 3934 Views Chardonnay, Sparkling wine

Rathfinny are a significant new-ish entry into the English sparkling wine scene, with their vines first going into the ground

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England Profiles 

New releases from Simpsons Wine Estate in Kent

April 6, 2021 jamiegoode 4928 Views

Based on the slopes of the North Downs in Kent, Simpsons Wine Estate is an impressive operation turning out some

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Roebuck Estates Rosé de Noirs 2016 England

March 16, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 4966 Views Sparkling wine

I’ve written about Roebuck Estate’s wines before. They are a relatively new entrant to the UK wine scene, but they

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England Profiles 

Langham Wine Estate: sparkling wines from Dorset, England

February 25, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 5983 Views

Langham Wine Estate are based in Dorset, part of the Langham Agricultural Enterprise which covers over 1000 hectares. A while

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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

Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode
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 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett

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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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