England
English wine is growing in popularity and is increasingly recognised as a premium wine-producing region, with more than 450 wineries and around 3.15m bottles produced a year.
The most popular grapes varieties grown in English vineyards are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Bacchus, as well as Pinot Meunier and Ortega.
Whilst vineyards are found across the whole of England, the climate of the South and South East makes it a particularly popular region for growing vines, especially in Hampshire, Sussex and Kent.
2018 saw a bumper harvest, with yields doubled in some vineyards.
English sparkling wine
In December 2015, Champagne Taittinger announced it was buying a vineyard in Kent and would produce an English sparkling wine.
English sparkling wine specifically has been highly praised for its quality, collecting three Platinum and six Gold medals in the 2018 Decanter World Wine Awards.
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UK Sparkling: May 2013 panel tasting results
Our judges were impressed at the consistently high quality...
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English wine newcomer Rathfinny Estate bottles first wine
Rathfinny Estate in Sussex, one of the newest and biggest English wine producers, has bottled its first wines as it seeks to join in on a sales boom for the sector.
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UK wine production hit record highs in 2014
UK winemakers are toasting a bumper 2014 harvest as production continues to grow, with the country’s vineyard area more than doubling in the last seven years.
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English wine ‘needs a shake-up’, says Hush Heath owner
English winemakers should not be distracted by side projects to get appellation status for regions like Sussex and need a singular focus to promote their image abroad, Richard Balfour-Lynn has argued.
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Chapel Down warns Sussex appellation will 'cloud the market'
Moves by several English wine producers to establish protected name status for Sussex has drawn a rebuke from Chapel Down, a rival wine company based outside of the region.
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English wine estates bid to create Sussex appellation
Drinking a glass of ‘Sussex’ could soon become a reality with English wine producers poised to bid for the same protected name status as Champagne and Bordeaux.
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Bolney English wine estate loses 5,000 bottles in burglary
Police have launched an investigation after burglars stole English wine worth £80,000 from a warehouse at Bolney Wine Estate in southern England.
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English wine producer claims first with skin contact white wine
English winery Chapel Down is producing what it believes is the country's first skin contact white wine.
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Chapel Down bets on English wine demand with land lease deal
English wine group Chapel Down has leased another 73 hectares of 'prime vineyard land' in southern England to cater for expected consumer demand.
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English wine sales may hit £100m in 2015, trade estimates
Rising consumer demand for English and Welsh wine both at home and abroad could see annual sales approach £100m by the end of 2015, according to industry estimates.
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English wine trade mourns loss of 'inspirational' Mike Roberts MBE
Mike Roberts MBE, a pioneer of English wine and co-founder of one of the country's best-known estates, Ridgeview, has died.
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English winemakers hail 'exquisite' 2014 vintage
English wine producers are hailing 2014 as a year to remember after a warm, dry September produced one of the earliest harvests in recent times.
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Central London winery to make English wine
London Cru, the winery in the heart of the UK capital, is to make its first English wine from the 2014 vintage after being impressed with the quality of this year's harvest.
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Duchess of Cornwall opens English wine research centre
A £2m laboratory that is intended to put southern England on the world map for wine research has been opened by the Duchess of Cornwall.
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Video: Cherie Spriggs of Nyetimber
Nyetimber head winemaker Cherie Spriggs talks to Decanter about the new 2009 Tillington Single Vineyard, as well as the challenges of managing Nyetimber's diverse vineyards.
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HRH Duchess of Cornwall opens new Hambledon winery
The Duchess of Cornwall officially opened the new £2.5m all gravity-fed state-of-the-art winery at Hambledon Vineyard in Hampshire this week.
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Chapel Down unveils £4.35m expansion plan
English winery Chapel Down is to invest more than £4m in a 'significant' vine planting programme and to expand the company's fast-growing beer business.
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English winemakers turn sights to export ahead of Prowein debut
English winemakers are looking to build on their higher profile following last year's Jubilee and Olympics celebrations with a greater push on exports in 2013.
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Nyetimber to abandon 2012 vintage
England's largest wine estate, Nyetimber, has announced it will be making no 2012 sparkling wine, because the difficult growing season means it can not produce sufficiently high quality wine from its grapes.
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English winemakers pray for Indian summer
The English grape harvest will be about two weeks later and smaller than normal – with winemakers hoping for a fine September to save the vintage.
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English wine harvest 'not looking good', say winemakers
As England continues to suffer the wettest early summer since records began, winemakers are beginning to wonder if they are going to have any grapes to harvest at all.
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English wine sparkles for Queen's Jubilee
English sparkling wines spearheaded bumper wine sales over the Jubilee weekend in the UK, initial figures show.
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TV review: The Apprentice (BBC1)
Mike Roberts of Ridge View – looking as though he had just caught a whiff of TCA on one of his most prized vintages – summed up the whole affair in one sentence. 'Why was it necessary to make it so flippant?'
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English Wine Producers rebrands
English Wine Producers (EWP) has unveiled a new logo and branding designed to reinforce its message about English wines to consumers and the trade.
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Corney & Barrow takes first English wine
London wine merchant Corney & Barrow has taken its first English listing after being captivated by the 'structure and power' of the sparkling wines of Wiston Estate in the South Downs.
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Nyetimber on offer at Goedhuis event for Starlight Foundation
English sparkling wine Nyetimber will be on offer this year as wine merchant Goedhuis hosts its third annual Summer Rose Tasting in aid of the Starlight Children's Foundation.
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Major new Sussex wine estate starts planting
A former hedge fund manager is setting out to plant what will one of the largest vineyards in England, in the South Downs in East Sussex.
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Olympic wines revealed
London wine merchant Bibendum has revealed a list of wines that will be served at the London Olympics this summer.
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Camel Valley and Ridge View top latest blind test
English sparkling favourites Camel Valley and Ridge View came out ahead in a major tasting of 94 sparkling wines – most of them from the UK - held in London last week.