english sparkling wine

3 min read 2022-01-17 22:12:23

Henkell Freixenet enters English sparkling wine market with Bolney Wine Estate acquisition

The acquisition of the winery leverages the growing popularity of English sparkling wines and promotes the category’s potential as “the new

9 min read 2021-03-15 17:11:42

Koya Brandy Brandy label Koya, made by China’s oldest and largest leading wine and spirits producer Changyu, launched in the UK last month. The

3 min read 2021-03-12 17:12:01

With the recent acquisition of Pookchurch Vineyard giving it a total of 124 acres (50 hectares) under vine, Highweald Wines is aiming to become a top

2 min read 2021-02-06 11:20:53

Valentine’s Day is just round the corner, it’s taking place on the long weekend together with Chinese New Year 2021, thus taking some limelight

16 min read 2020-12-10 20:00:11

Words by Natasha Heard and Lisa Curtiss With a year like 2020 almost over, it only seems fitting that we should raise as many toasts as possible to

6 min read 2020-11-17 12:30:53

“The idea is to promote what GB Wines Chairman Simon Robinson calls “the hero style” – the traditional method or Methode Champenoise –

7 min read 2020-10-12 15:00:28

Cherie Spriggs of Nyetimber / Photo by Tom ParkerIt took two Americans to recognize that the future of English winemaking lay in sparkling wine. In

3 min read 2020-10-09 16:53:57

Fans of English Sparkling Wine, I would like to share a good news! Nytimber is looking forward to bumper harvest in this period of new social

5 min read 2020-10-05 18:23:33

“It was a conscious decision, we were monitoring the autolysis and we didn’t want it to play too much of a part, it would hamper the fruit of the

7 min read 2020-09-16 13:07:54

With his four wines, four wineries, four counties project, Keay wanted to create a snapshot, illustrating the English wine scene’s ambition and

5 min read 2020-09-08 13:32:16

“Knowing such wines are now being made less than half an hour from my front door in fields than once grew wheat or corn or lay fallow, is quite

4 min read 2020-06-27 18:12:52

It’s English Wine Week so as good a time as any to post this thing that I wrote for the Observer earlier this year for an advertorial spot

5 min read 2020-06-23 23:16:03

“I like that there are house styles beginning to emerge, and English Sparkling Wine has escaped beyond the realm of niche into the vocabulary of

7 min read 2020-05-22 13:45:22

“We’ve always known that being more central in the country increases our risk, but we believe this is a price worth paying for getting hotter

6 min read 2020-05-13 12:06:16

For Krebiehl the Blanc de Blancs 2016 and the Blanc de Noirs 2016 were the stars of the show. Both Sarah and Mark Driver wore their hearts on their