English Wine

It used to be the easiest way in the wine world to get a laugh. start extolling the virtues of English wine. Oh, how they would chortle. The old-fashioned view of English wine is that of a cottage industry made up of amateurs struggling with the mud and the drizzle. The modern view is of a country amazingly blessed with vast tracts of soil suitable for viticulture, much of it almost indistinguishable from the chalky slopes of Champagne and Chablis, and of a country taking full advantage of the vagaries of climate change to ripen Chardonnay and Pinot Noir to levels perfect for sparkling wine. And it wouldn. t be far off the mark to say that England is now the newest of the New World, New Wave wine countries.