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"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. There were numbers of vineyards in Britain by the point of the Norman Conquest, many of them attached to priories and great homes. The areas of concentration were the tidal areas of the southeast, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

The 1st commercial vineyard in present times was established at Hambledon in Hampshire in 1951 but serious development in Britain wine industry has been in not that much more than the last thirty years.

Climate for wine farming
The Wine Industry relies on the farming of grapes. According to the geographical conditions, the United Kingdom isn't appropriate for commercial grape production, being too far north. Almost all of the successful vineyards in England are southern Britain and Wales where, in some pieces of southern Britain, the subsoil is chalk or limestone and has similar geology to that of the Champers area in France.

The key grape types planted in Great Britain are Reichensteiner, Bacchus, and Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Muller Thurgau and Sylva Blanc; not many of which are names the average UK wine drinker would be acquainted with.

UK Wine: English and Welsh wine must be produced from fresh grapes grown in the United Kingdom, while UK wine is a type of 'made wine ' which can often be made in Great Britain and Eire from imported grapes, grape juice, grape must or a mixture of these. Though 'made wine ' products can be called 'wine ' they've got to be prefixed with a term like English, Mead, Fruit, Tonic and so on. These products aren't ruled by the ECU Wine Regime.

With all problems of climate and latitude, there are way more than two hundred and fifty commercial vineyards in Britain varying in size from 1 or 2 square meters run by small-scale hobbyists to enormous wineries run by commercially shrewd wine producers. Best English Wines:
1. Nyetimber: widely thought of as one of the greatest English wineries.
2. Curious Grape: brand of the UK's biggest (and probably best) producer, New Wave Wines
3. Three Choirs: Large operation in the Midlands making some well priced and mouth watering wines.
4. Davenport: The UK's leading organic producer, making fresh, bright, full-flavoured whites.
5. Denbies: In Surrey's North Downs, this is the biggest producer with some engaging wines.

Martin Rusett
Winelines was set up by Martin de Rusett, a longtime Wine Merchant and lecturer in London. The Company hopes to reveal the poser that surrounds wine tasting as well as wine making, storing and serving, so as to entertain and educate.