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British wines are ultimately coming into their own, with 2 English vineyards winning gold for the 1st time at the respected World Wine Challenge. Thanks to this improvement in quality as well as falling costs due to the weaker pound and the existing trend for purchasing regional goods

Wissett Wine was conceived and the 1st three acres of the vineyard planted at Valley Farm in the Spring of 1987 with vines brought from Alsace, France.Another five acres were planted in the Spring of 1992 making eight acres in all, which should yield roughly some fifteen thousand bottles of quality English wine each year.

For twenty years the Kemps ran Gifford's Hall Vineyard and developed it into one of the region's leading traveller destinations. They sold up and quit in 2004 but kept three acres of their vineyard includes the most mature grapes.

Grape-wine has been produced in East Anglia ever since the Romans planted vines on varied sites around Great Britain. The mixture of low rainfall and limestone and chalk soils made them especially successful in this region.

Though the United Kingdom is among the littlest wine producers in the ECU, it is typically said to be the center of the world trade in wine and, as a consequence, has a flourishing industry stretching from importers and bottlers through to freight forwarders and retailers.

"Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used - Shakespeare"
Wine and food is usually cast as a rather confusing and unique division of science, it truly isn't as mysterious as it appears to be. Wine in Britain can be dated right back to Roman times.