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Touraine Sparkling Wine
Touraine is an immense region, so big that the famous region of Vouvray lies entirely within it! The Touraine region itself is said to stretch the whole way from Chinon in the West, all the way to Orleans in the North-East, down to Valencay in the South East. The reality is that bottles of all…
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Sparkling Wine Mountains and Rivers: Trentino-Alto Adige
As part of a new series, I want to take a look at sparkling wines that are close to / influenced by mountain regions and major rivers. Grape vines are grown all across the world in both the southern and northern hemispheres (30th and the 50th degrees of latitude). These vineyards are not confined to…
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Wine Tasting & Tour with Luxury Cream Tea
Escape into the Sussex countryside for a quintessentially English Cream Tea Wine Tasting and Tour. Bolney Wine Estate have a new Wine Tasting and Tour with Luxury Cream Tea includes a guided tour of their beautiful vineyard and estate in the Sussex countryside, followed by a wine tasting experience of five of their award-winning wines…
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English Wine Harvest 2020
We spoke to some of our award winning winemakers of English sparkling wine to see what the harvest has been like for them this year. Sam Lindo, winemaker at Camel Valley in Cornwall said they finished the harvest in record time. In fact, they finished before they normally start. “The quality was amazing, but the…
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Positive Long-Term Growth for the UK Wine Industry
• The latest industry figures from Wines of Great Britain reveal a healthy rise in sales in UK and overseas • Employment and tourism numbers show the growing importance of the UK wine industry to the UK economy Wines of Great Britain have released the results from their latest industry survey, based on performance in…
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Interview with Sam Lindo Winemaker at Camel Valley
Sam Lindo is the second generation winemaker at Camel Valley. Sam, a maths graduate who had seemed destined for a career in the city, instead decided to make his life in Cornwall and returned to the family farm, where he had grown up, in 2002. Son of founder Bob Lindo, a retired RAF pilot, who…
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How Traditional Method Sparkling Wine Is Made
Traditional Method, sometimes referred to as the Méthode Champenoise, is famously used to create Champagne in the Champagne region of France, but it isn’t exclusively used there. You don’t have to be in Champagne to use the Traditional Method, as Sparkling Wines in France, outside the Champagne region use this method, even Spain uses this…
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A Sparkling Wine For Every Season
Every season brings a new atmosphere, with one making you want to spend as much time outside soaking in the sun, with an ice lolly in hand, where another will make you want to snuggle up indoors next to an open fire reading a good book with a glass of Sparkling Red Wine in hand,…
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Exciting times ahead for Fitz Wine says Gareth Davies, Winemaker
Fitz Winemaker, Gareth Davies, updates us on the new vineyard that is being planted exclusively for future bottles of Fitz. A couple of weeks ago, I made my way down to the village of Hawkhurst: a gorgeous chocolate-box village nestled on the Kent-Sussex border. Given our current circumstances, this journey had to be an essential…
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