UK Wine Show 3 Owen Elias from Chapel Down

Owen Elias from Chapel Down talks to us about winemaking in the UK and how the industry has changed over the last decade from amateur hobbyist to professional business.

UK Wine Show 187 Guy Tresnan of Chapel Down on brand positioning in the UK

Chapel Down is one of the biggest players in English wine. We met up with Guy Tresnan to find out how they are positioning the brand in the UK market.

France takes away most medals in IWC competition

France has come top of the medal table at this year’s International Wine Challenge

Nyetimber sparkles in International Wine & Spirit Competition

An amazing 96% of English wines were awarded medals in this year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition

Chapel Down opens new restaurant

Chapel Down has joined forces with Celebrity TV Chef, Richard Phillips, to launch a restaurant at the vineyard in Tenterden, Kent.

Chapel Down introduce two new wines

English winery launches Malbec and Royal Wedding sparkling wine.

Royal family to plant vineyard

Royal family to plant vineyard at Windsor Castle.

IWC winners announced

Gold Medal winners announced only Gold Rose in the world is from England

Chapel Down restaurant closes

Restriction on number of weddings forces restaurant to close

Rain, rain and more rain means UK vintage close to a wash out

Rain dampens hopes for this year's English wine harvest.

English harvest a corker

English Wine Growers upbeat about 2013 harvests

Chapel Down Fizz auction to support the Arts

A 15-litre Nebuchadnezzar of Chapel Down sparkling Blanc de Blancs is to be auctioned at Christie’s to raise funds for a British arts charity.

Chapel Down expands

Chapel Down expand vineyards in response to consumer demand.

England's 1st Orange wine

Chapel Down launch first Orange Bacchus.

Cloudy Bay wins at Chelsea Flower Show

Chelsea Flower Show and Downing Street backs English Wine

Decanter Wine Awards 2016

Winners of the Decanter Wine Awards 2016 announced

UK producer Chapel Down amazes the Spanish with English Albarino

Chapel Down's Albarino has impressed a group of experts in Spain’s Galicia, the location of Rias Baixas, the home of Albarino.

Chapel Down signs lease to become the UK's largest winery

English Winery Chapel Down has leased 388 acres of land and when fully planted will be the largest UK winery with 950 acres under its control producing 1 million bottles per year.

Chapel Down announces largest loss of over £1 million

Chapel Down, one of the UK's largest winemakers, has seen its loss quadruple from £230,000 to over £1 million.

Chapel Down puts Curious Brew pub business into administration

Leading UK wine producer Chapel Down has put its award winning beer business into administration to allow RCP (Risk Capital Partners) to buy the business clear of debt.

Chapel Down to sponsor English Cricket

Chapel Down hopes to add some fizz to the English Cricket team.

Chapel Down UK's biggest winery

Chapel Down will be the UK largest winery this year with 2 million bottles from the 2022 harvest.

UK Wine Show 54 Tony Jordon CEO of Green Point

This week we feature Tony Jordon the CEO of Green Point Australia on the recent release of their entire sparkling range under crown seal.

UK Wine Show 12 Pieter Ferreira from Graham Beck wines on winemaking in South Africa part 2

Pieter Ferreira, winemaker at Graham Beck, tastes three wines with us and explains how they are made. Find out why he makes sparkling wines in barrels and how he prefers his barrels burnt on the inside to a medium toast!

Anna Lopez Lidon of Gramona on Cava

Anna Lopez Lidon is the export manager at Gramona, a Cava producer in Penedes, Spain. We discuss how Cava is produced, the dosage and the debate over international vs local grape varieties.

UK Wine Show 135 Josep Baujan on Cava and Yeast

Josep Baujan is technical director of Freixenet, the world-leading Cava and sparkling wine producer. In the second part of our interview we talk to Josep about yeast selection in Cava.

UK Wine Show 210 Mike Roberts of Ridgeview Estate on the Merret brand

Mike Roberts of Ridgeview Estate talks to us about his ambitions to create an accreditation for top quality English sparkling wine.

Montana brand replaced by Brancott Estate

The name Montana is to be replaced with Brancott Estate and a new wine style is to be trialled in 2011.

BA adds English sparkler in 1st class

British Airways first airline to offer an English sparkling wine to its airline customers

Russia launches first sparkling wine in the UK

Russia's first sparkling wine Abrau-Durso has arrived in the UK to be test-marketed via distributor Berkmann Wine Cellars.

Fizz put into Sauvignon Blanc

Brancott Estate launch sparkling Sauvignon Blanc.

Camel Valley on top of the world at International wine competition

Camel Valley Pinot Rose awarded the International Sparkling Rose Trophy.

The great English plant up is underway in southern England

New Sussex vineyard aims to produce 1 million bottles of sparkling wine a year.

Sparkling wine from across the world makes a splash in the UK

Sparkling wine sales are outperforming Champagne in the off trade.

Sparkling wines, are they going screw cap?

Guala launches sparkling wine screw cap closure to keep your fizz fizzier longer.

Australia has best growing season in decades while Champagne has one of the worst

Australia is set to benefit from the best growing conditions in the past twenty years but Champagne has seen the worst growing season in decades.

Former Tory jumps on English fizz bandwagon

Lord Ashcroft Controversial former Conservative Party deputy chairman is to invest in UK vineyard.

White Rum replaces Champagne in average shopping basket

Office of National Statistics deems white rum to be in an average shopping basket but Champagne is no longer

12 year study reveals number of bubbles in Champagne

French scientist finds formula to work out number of bubbles in Champagne

Bit more pop than expected!

Exploding prosecco recalled in the US

More Sparkle in the UK

Uplift of fizz sales in the UK driven by Prosecco

Austria introduces sparkling wine tiers

3 tier quality structure introduced to Austrian Sparkling wines

Top level tier announced for Cava

New single source vineyard guarantee for Cava will be introduced in the sprng.

Bubbly Made In India

French wine and spirits house marketing Indian bubbly

Christmas news and wine

What's going on this Christmas with wine?

Drappier makes 'extreme' Champagne using single varietal Pinot Gris

Champagne producer Michel Drappier has made the first vintage of Pinot Gris Champagne at his property in the Aube.

Vive Le English Sparkling Wine!

English Sparkling Wine beats Champagne in blind tasting

New Spanish Sparkling Wine

Torres reject Cava DO for their sparkling wine

Chambong latest drinking fad?

New champagne vessels launched

Christmas Trading Results

Sparkling wine boosts most retailers Christmas trade

Queens makes her own Fizz

2nd batch of Queens Sparkling Wine eagerly awaited

Blue wine, now blue fizz, but you’ll have to look fast

Scientist discovers blue cloud of gas escaping Champagne bottle when opened at a warmer temperature.

Champagne house Pommery first to release English Fizz!

Vranken Pommery Monopole launches English Fizz grown and made for them by Hampshire wine producer Hattingley Valley.

Top German producers introduce a new classification system for top end sparkling wines.

Germany's Verband Deutscher Prädikats (VDP) producers launch a new sparkling wine classification.

Coravin unveils its new sparkling wine preservation system

For some time, Coravin has been a leading method of tasting still wines from the same bottle over a period of months. Now they have launched their new sparkling wine system.

Russia forces Champagnes to be re-labelled Sparkling wine in Russia

The recent Russian law has left Champagne companies flat and banned them from using the term Russian word for Champagne, shampanskoye.

Champagne 2021 vintage looks tough

The weather in 2021 has simply not played ball with French producers. The Champagne region was hit badly by frost, hail and persistent mildew as well as spring rain which has resulted in yields expected to be down by 45%.

The Queen launches sparkling wine for Platinum Jubilee

The Queen has launched a sparkling wine in celebration of her platinum Jubilee, the sparkling wine is made from grapes sourced from Kent and West Sussex.

Chapel Down to sponsor English Cricket

Chapel Down hopes to add some fizz to the English Cricket team.

Plastic for English fizz?

UK government wants to allow plastic bottles for sparkling wines as part of the Brexit boost

Champagne finishes early harvest as UK starts

Just as Champagne's last grapes have been picked, the UK is gearing up for its harvest, with picking times getting earlier in the season for all producers.

Bad press for Champagne

A bad week for Champagne as grape pickers are rescued from people traffickers and the drink is ranked as overrated.

UK Wine Show 35 Richard Selley Global Warming and Wine in Britain

Richard Selley is a Professor of Geology and a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. He is author of The Winelands of Britain and shares with us his knowledge on climate change in Britain relating to wine.

UK Wine Show 49 George Bowden Leventhorpe Winery

Leventhorpe Winery is a commercial vineyard and winery based in Leeds in the North of England. Owner George Bowden tells how he grows vines at the extreme edge of viticulture and why badgers, birds and hedgehogs are as much a hazard as frost and fungi.

UK Wine Show 52 Denbies Wine Tourism with Chris White

Denbies is England's largest vineyard and attracts 300,000 visitors a year. General Manager and son of the owner, Chris White, lets us in on the secret of Denbies' success.

UK Wine Show 53 Julia Trustram Eve English Wine Producers

This week is English Wine Week so we met up with Julia Trustram Eve, Marketing Manager for English Wine Producers, the Marketing Association for the English Wine Industry. We discuss issues including new Brussels legislation and global warming.

UK Wine Show 53 Julia Trustram Eve English Wine Producers

This week is English Wine Week so we met up with Julia Trustram Eve, Marketing Manager for English Wine Producers, the Marketing Association for the English Wine Industry. We discuss issues including new Brussels legislation and global warming.

UK Wine Show 77 aBecketts Vineyard Paul Langham

aBecketts Vineyard in Wiltshire was established by Paul Langham and wife Lynn in 2001. With 6 acres under vine of 5 grape varieties they're producing some interesting styles of English wine. Paul tells us about growing grapes on the Salisbury Plain.

Ridgeview and the 2006 English Harvest Mike Roberts

Mike Roberts is the owner of Ridgeview Estate, a top English sparkling wine producer. His wines consistently win international awards so what makes them so successful and able to compete with Champagne?

UK Wine Show 106 Martin Fowkes of Three Choirs

Martin Fowkes is winemaker and director at Three Choirs, the leading single-estate vineyard in the UK. Martin looks back at the 2007 vintage when floods hit the region.

Sam Lindo of Camel Valley Vineyard

Sam Lindo is winemaker at the award-winning Camel Valley Vineyard in Cornwall. We find out about the family vineyard and the wines they're producing.

UK Wine Show 118 Stephen Skelton on the UK Vineyards Guide 2008

Stephen Skelton MW is an expert on English wine and author of the UK Vineyards Guide 2008. We find out about the book and what's changed on the UK wine scene since the last edition was published in 2001.

UK Wine Show 138 Will Davenport on Organic Wine

Will Davenport is the owner of Davenport Vineyards and has been growing organic grapes commercially since 2003. We catch up with him to find out why he went organic.

UK Wine Show 156 Richard Balfour-Lynn on Balfour Rose

Richard Balfour-Lynn owns Hush Heath Estate in Kent and produces an award-winning sparkling rose. His main business interest lie in hotels and catering but we find out about his passion for wine.

UK Wine Show 157 Nyetimber with Eric Heerema and Cherie Spriggs

Nyetimber is one of the UK's leading sparkling wine producers. We meet with owner and CEO Eric Heerema and winemaker Cherie Spriggs.

UK Wine Show 187 Guy Tresnan of Chapel Down on brand positioning in the UK

Chapel Down is one of the biggest players in English wine. We met up with Guy Tresnan to find out how they are positioning the brand in the UK market.

UK Wine Show 210 Mike Roberts of Ridgeview Estate on the Merret brand

Mike Roberts of Ridgeview Estate talks to us about his ambitions to create an accreditation for top quality English sparkling wine.

UK Wine Show 220 Wickham Vineyards with Jo Nowak

We talk with Jo Nowark about the diverse range of business run under the Wickham vineyards group and find out how this small English producer has has integrated vertical and horizontally.

UK Wine Show 243 Stanlake Park with Vince Gower

We talk to Vince Gower, the winemaker at Stanlake Park Wine Estate in Berkshire, England to find out about the vineyard and the wines they produce.

UK Wine Show 244 Ian Meadows on ancient English wine drinking

We interview archaeologist Ian Meadows who excavated the first proven Roman vineyard in the Nene Valley, Northampton, to find out how the English were first introduced to wine.

Nyetimber plans leap from boutique to brand

English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber hopes to go from ‘boutique to brand’ now that Stephen Clark has joined the company

France takes away most medals in IWC competition

France has come top of the medal table at this year’s International Wine Challenge

First of new crop of English wine books

A new book that takes a tour around the UK’s vineyards will be available from Saturday

English doubling wine ready for the Olympics

English wine production will more than double by 2012 – in time for the Olympics.

Consumers still confused and unconfident about wine

Recent research by Australian brand Hardys has shown that consumers are still confused about wine.

Nyetimber sparkles in International Wine & Spirit Competition

An amazing 96% of English wines were awarded medals in this year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition

New book details all the UK's vineyards

Another of this year’s handful of books on English wine has just been published.

Review says drinks industry not regulating itself

The alcohol industry is not following its own code of conduct, according to research done by KPMG.

Oz and James drink to Britain

Oz Clarke and James May will be back on our screens in January with a new BBC TV series 'Oz and James Drink to Britain'.

All change at Nyetimber

English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber has appointed a new sales manager Francis Brackley.

Waitrose plant first vineyard

This week sees British supermarket Waitrose plant its own vines at Leckford Farm Estate in Hampshire.

English wine harvest in full swing

The harvest is well underway in English vineyards with producers reporting healthy yields, high sugars and balanced acidity in the grapes.

Wickham Vineyard buys 14 First Quench stores

Hampshire based Wickham Vineyard has stepped in to save 14 off-licences from closure following the collapse of the First Quench group.

UK wine sales grow

UK On and Off trade figures show increase in wine sales value

Camilla is next president of UK Vineyards Association

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall has taken over the role of President of the United Kingdom Vineyards Association (UKVA).

Quick the French are coming!

Pierson Whitaker Grand Cru Champagne house has partnered with English landowners in Hampshire to produce a sparkling wine called Meonhill.

The great English plant up is underway in southern England

New Sussex vineyard aims to produce 1 million bottles of sparkling wine a year.

Nyetimber signs export deal to Denmark

Award-winning English fizz award contract to distribute wines in Denmark.

Chapel Down Fizz auction to support the Arts

A 15-litre Nebuchadnezzar of Chapel Down sparkling Blanc de Blancs is to be auctioned at Christie’s to raise funds for a British arts charity.

Government introduces wholesaler database

Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme AWRS introduced

37 new English wine producers in 2015

37 new wine producers were registered in England last year, according to new research.

Bah Humbug to UK Health Body

Call for minimum pricing on alcohol in the UK

England and Northern Ireland's deposit return systems reject glass

England and Northern Ireland's deposit return system scheme will not include glass bottles.

Chapel Down to sponsor English Cricket

Chapel Down hopes to add some fizz to the English Cricket team.

UK hospitality bounces back, London flat

Hospitality sales are above pre-Covid levels but rampant inflation means there is still room to get back to pre-pandemic levels.

Spate of English vineyard sales

There has been a spate of English vineyards being sold or up for sale.

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