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Lesson 1: A Brief History of English Wine

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1604923618312{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Wine-growing is not new to the UK and evidence points to vineyards in Medieval and Roman times. However, winemaking expanded considerably in England during the Middle Ages before a worsening climate in the later medieval period led to a decline in England’s wine making.

Small scale experimentation continued through the 19th century, but it was not really until the second half of the 20th century that commercial grape growing and wine making really began to take off.Pioneers such as Ray Barrington Brock then sought to identify the grape varieties most suited to England’s climate, and a handful of people then began to plant them on their properties in southern England.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1600253936475{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;background-color: #efefef !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1600424947025{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]In the late 1980s, Nyetimber pioneered English sparkling wine and as an industry since about 2004, there has seen a shift away from the classic Germanic grapes on which it built its foundations, such as Müller-Thurgau and Reichensteiner.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1604927261235{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]The sector has since come into its own and in the last decade vineyard owners have increasingly favoured sparkling over still wine moving towards the plantings of Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay – the Champagne classic trio. It is this, for which the UK is most celebrated however on an international scale UK wine production is still relatively small currently a similar size to Tasmania.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][mk_image src=”https://www.vinescapes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_1739876096.jpg” image_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1600426600254{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]

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