Your guide to UK visits. More than 8 opportunities. How many vineyards are there in the UK. This lovely lady, Rebecca, pictured,, told me,
"1000 vineyards. We think 150 wineries.
" Ask Wine GB who survey. There's wines of Hampshire. Wine Garden of England in Kent.The Yorkshire wine trail. Sussex Vineyard.One in Shropshire and one in vineyard in Scotland.
I was told this by Rebecca, editor of Vineyard magazine.
The Vineyard magazine frew out of a magazine about farms and farming. But the stories about vineyards multiplied as more and more opened because global warming has made England such a favourable place for vines and vineyards. The chalky soil which favours the vines of Northern Frane and the Champagne region and Loirse valley in Northern france xtends under the Channel to southern England. (Except for London clay where the red bricks come from, building the houses in London and the redbrick universities, as opposed to the spires of Oxford and Cambridge and the thatch in the Costwolds and the grey granite up in cooler Scotland which is Whisky country..)
So you can foray out of London for an afternoon or day trip and visit a vineyard. The editors of the farming magazine had enough stories about vineyards to start a magazine solely about Vineyards. Here you have it.
The April 2024 edition of VINEYARD for growers and winemakers in Great Britain, features a picture of Traditional Method Louis Pommery Brut England. Inside (the magazine) Exploring Wine culture, Pruning competition, and Welsh Wine showcase.
The summer is coming up. A good time to visit vineyards which are open for visits and tours, tours of the indoor wineries, and tastings in England and Wales.
A handy magazine for everybody. Their May edition alerted me to English wine week in June.
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The next London Wine Fair will be 19-21 2025, for the trade only, but that includes lots of people, maybe you or people you know, such as producers of wine, vineyards, winteries, importers, those looking for distribution, entrepreneurs looking for new products, wine sommeliers, spirits specilists, low and no wine producers, wine education organizations such as WSET, wine judges and Masters of Wine and wine book writers.
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