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Category Archives: Sparkling Wine
Wine and Cheese Anyone? Reviewing Oz Clarke’s English Wine with Ned Palmer’s A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles
This week you get two book reviews in one article and, I think for the first time, one of them isn’t about wine. Tempted as I’ve been in the past to review books on my other passion, music, I have … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Writing
Tagged A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles, Books on English & Welsh Wine, British and Irish Cheeses, British Artisan Cheeses, Cheese Books, Cheese in History, English and Welsh Wine, English Sparkling Wine, Ned Palmer, Oz Clarke English Wine, Reading About Wine, Wine Book Reviews
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Black Chalk
Six thousand years ago the early settlers in what was then a very cold, damp and misty island off the coast of mainland Europe, began to exploit the soft chalky Downlands in the south of that island for flint. It … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine
Tagged Black Chalk Classic 2016, Black Chalk Wild Rose, Black Chalk Wine, English Sparkling Wine, English Wine, Graft Wine Company Black Chalk Agent, Hampshire Wine, IEWA Overall Winner Sparkling Wine, Jacob Leadley, Test Valley Hampshire, Wine from Test Valley, Wine GB 2020 Best Newcomer, Wines of Hampshire, Zoë Driver Winemaker
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Wine GB Awards 2020
Many of you will have seen the Trophy Winners of the Wine GB Awards 2020, announced around a week ago with an online presentation. Naturally, with the current pandemic, the Awards had to go “virtual” this year so there was … Continue reading
Posted in English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged Ashling Park Wines, Black Chalk Wines, Breaky Bottom, Breaky Bottom Cuvée Michelle Moreau, Chapel Down Kit's Coty, Davenport HUX, Dermot Sugrue, Emma Rice, English and Welsh Wines, Gusbourne Wines, Harrow & Hope Wines, Hattingley Valley King's Cuvée 2014, Hidden Spring Vineyard Horam, Jenkyn Place Wines, Laneberg Wines Urban Winery, Sugrue Trouble With Dreams, Tyneside Urban Winery, UK Wine Awards, Wine GB Awards 2020, Wiston Estate
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Skelton’s “The Wines of Great Britain” and some thoughts on English Wine
This article began its gestation as a book review. I recently read another edition from the Infinite Ideas Classic Wine Library, of which I have reviewed two further books in just this past year (on Sake and Japanese Wines by … Continue reading
Posted in English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Writing
Tagged Adrian Pike, Ancre Hill Estate, Ben Walgate, Biodynamics and UK Wines, Black Chalk, English Petnat, English Riesling, English Sparkling Wine, English Wine and Brexit, English Wine Post-Coronavirus, English Wine's Future, Grape Varieties in England and Wales, Infinite Ideas Classic Wine Library, Jacob Leadley, Plumpton College Wine Centre, Sephen Skelton MW, Skin Contact Wine in Britain, The Wines of Great Britain (book review), Tillingham Wines, Tim Phillips, Westwell Wines
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Vineyards of Hampshire – London Tasting February 2020
The Vineyards of Hampshire group held their sixth annual Trade and Press tasting at 67 Pall Mall on Tuesday. The eight producers present last year were joined this time by one new member, The Grange, which is the vineyard of the well known … Continue reading
Posted in English Wine, Rosé Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Black Chalk Wines, Cottonworth, Danebury Vineyards, Emma Rice, English Schönburger, English Sparkling Wine, English Wine, Entice Sweet Bacchus Dessert Wine, Exton Park, Hambledon Vineyard, Hattingley Valley Aqua Vitae, Hattingley Valley Wines, Jacob Leadley, Jenkyn Place Wines, Raimes Wines, The Grange Vineyard, Vineyards of Hampshire 2020 Tasting, Vineyards of Hampshire Group
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