The coming of age of the English and Welsh wine industry.

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Jeremy Mount, winemaker at Woodchester Valley, Gloucestershire, talks to Vineyard about the enormous potential for home-grown still wines.

Focus on glass composition, glass colour and lightweight glass.

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Critical points to think about when tasting and blending.

Peter Wallbridge, wine buyer at Enotria & Coe, talks to Vineyard magazine about the opportunities ahead for home-grown wine.

The acreage of vines planted in recent years is encouraging evidence of the huge optimism in the sector, but it’s creating a challenge which the industry is yet to fully address – where do we find the processing capacity?

The black art of winery design.

Back in the June 2019 edition of Vineyard Magazine, I touched upon the future of grape production in the UK. In the article, I cited the bountiful 2018 vintage that graced us with the largest crop seen in our tiny industry for some time, but not without its troubles. This brought to mind a familiar quote: “With great power comes great responsibility” (I’m aware that this well-known Stan Lee proverb is obscure, but stay with me!)

Contract winemaker

• Albourne The springboard to success
• Black Chalk The creative collaborator
• Bolney The variety performance
• Defined Wine The contract-only
• Halfpenny The small site’s saviour
• Itasca The green dream
• Litmus The equipped and experienced
• Stopham The still white specialist

After purchasing two plots of arable land on the outskirts of Barham, Kent, in 2013, this year was the third harvest for Simpsons Wine Estate’s Roman Road vineyard and the first harvest for half of its Railway Hill site. Continue reading “Leveraging a French connection” →

How did you get into wine?

Previously I worked in music but after 20 years, I had all but stopped listening to music and needed to find a new passion. Continue reading “Meet the manager: Adrian Pike” →