English wine’s irrepressible rise
The Hindu
With more vineyards being planted in the UK, and British wines — both sparkling and still — having their moment, our wine expert picks some winners
A few months ago, a clear and sunny weekend gave me the perfect reason to drive down to the vineyards in Kent — a busman’s holiday after my wine exams. Why English vineyards? Because the English sparkling wine story has intrigued me for many years and this was an opportunity to do a reality check.
It has only been in the last decade that English wine (made from grapes grown in England and Wales) has received the attention it deserves. The first sparkling winery to strike gold was Nyetimber. Tasted blind, their Classic Cuvée 2003 surprised the world by beating several Champagne grand marques to corner the top spot in 2010’s Bollicine del Mondo sparkling wine championships. Global warming — think earlier springs and warmer, drier summers — and clones, better knowledge of soils, and vineyard experiments, I learn, are behind this success.
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