All that fizz: England’s winemakers can now rival their counterparts in Champagne
(Picture: Pixabay)This week is English Wine Week, a celebration of — you guessed it — boozy bottles from our very own rolling hills.
Where once it meant dodgy bottles of back-garden plonk, now our fantastic fizz is leading the charge, regularly sweeping up at awards and competitions to rival players in Champagne. Quality has soared across the last decade in particular, and with a climate similar to Champagne and those very same chalk soils burrowing beneath the Channel to crop up in the south of England, perhaps it was always meant to be.
