Make Your Own English Wine

'Grapes of Good Hope', is an article that appeared in this weeks Sunday Times (9th November) reporting the boom in English winemaking. What's great is that maybe, just maybe, with a warmer climate and a little bit of investment we may well be producing the winemaking superstars of the future and become a recognised and respected wine producing country across the world.

English sparkling wines have received the most rescent positive PR and just remember, it was an Englishman, Christopher Merret who introduced the first receipe for sparkling wine to the Royal Society in 1662 - 30 years before Dom Perignon.

Peter Hall of Breaky Bottom, Lewes talked about the boom in English winemaking in the ST article: “In the past three years, something extraordinary has happened...People with money from the City are getting into it – it is strictly sparkling wine that has caused this lift off." If there is anyone left in the City with money to invest, "it will be an important addition to agriculture."

To view the whole Sunday Times article click here.