English Wines
The mid 20th Century revival of English wine was more of novelty value until a few growers realised the potential for making sparkling wines.
[Read more...]The mid 20th Century revival of English wine was more of novelty value until a few growers realised the potential for making sparkling wines.
The marginal English climate gives rise to wines with higher, sometimes tart, acidity which is ideal as the base wine for sparkling wine production. The band of chalk that makes the Champagne region so special dips down under northern France and Channel and then re-emerges in Kent and Sussex as the Downs, meaning that many English vineyards share the same soil as their Gallic counterparts. And greater viticultural knowledge and a touch of global warming have tended to mitigate the worst defects of the less than reliable English Summer weather.
Thus, recent years have seen England emerge as a truly important and high quality sparkling wine producer with new and exciting wines coming on stream with every year that passes. The industry was given a boost by the twin joys of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics in 2012 but, today, whatever you have to toast England has the bubbles!
[Hide]The mid 20th Century revival of English wine was more of novelty value until a few growers realised the potential for making sparkling wines.
The marginal English climate gives rise to wines with higher, sometimes tart, acidity which is ideal as the base wine for sparkling wine production. The band of chalk that makes the Champagne region so special dips down under northern France and Channel and then re-emerges in Kent and Sussex as the Downs, meaning that many English vineyards share the same soil as their Gallic counterparts. And greater viticultural knowledge and a touch of global warming have tended to mitigate the worst defects of the less than reliable English Summer weather.
Thus, recent years have seen England emerge as a truly important and high quality sparkling wine producer with new and exciting wines coming on stream with every year that passes. The industry was given a boost by the twin joys of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics in 2012 but, today, whatever you have to toast England has the bubbles!
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