Category Archives: English Wine

Tillingham Update (Sept 2018)

Posted on 12/09/2018 by

I wrote about my visit to Ben Walgate’s Tillingham Wines back in June, here. Quite a lot of interest has been generated in what Ben Walgate is doing there, in the far east of Sussex. This is in part because he … Continue reading →

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Recent Wines (May 2018) #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 11/07/2018 by

I’m getting behind (as usual) with this “recent wines” malarkey, so I’m going to split May and June into two more digestible bites – eight wines from May today and then eight wines from June next week. PN17, Tillingham Vineyard, … Continue reading →

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Tillingham

Posted on 26/06/2018 by

Having got to know Ben Walgate and his wines over the past year I had been itching to make a visit to his Tillingham Vineyard, within sight of Rye in East Sussex. I finally got a chance just over a … Continue reading →

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London Wine Fair 2018 Part 2 – Drinks Britannia and the Trading Floor

Posted on 27/05/2018 by

In Part 1 of my review of the 2018 London Wine Fair I concentrated on the small importers in the Esoterica area, where you could find perhaps the real excitement of the event. If you haven’t already read Part 1, you can catch … Continue reading →

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The Plumpton Riots (Keep Calm and Carignan)

Posted on 12/12/2017 by

Do excuse my continued obsession with obscure musical puns in the title, and also excuse me writing about something a little different today. Last week I had the pleasure to visit Plumpton College in Sussex. It was only my second … Continue reading →

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The Secret Garden and The Pig

Posted on 17/09/2017 by

Tim Phillips isn’t a name many of you will have come across. Tim has several winemaking strings to his bow, with projects in South Africa and in Italy, but Tim’s current focus is very different. Clos du Paradis is not … Continue reading →

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The Shipyard

Posted on 22/12/2016 by

The New Forest is one of the UK’s most interesting places to dine at the moment. One of the newest restaurants in and around Lymington is The Shipyard Fishmarket, Bar and Kitchen, beyond Lymington Quay, in the thick of the town’s … Continue reading →

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Bringing Sparkle to Christmas

Posted on 20/12/2015 by

The chances are that if you are reading this Blog you read a fair bit about wine, and if you do you have probably read something in the past few weeks about English sparkling wine. You may even have drunk … Continue reading →

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