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Eulalia said:
They do now -
There are > 500 vineyards, total > 2000 Hectares, in England & Wales.
http://www.englishwineproducers.co.uk/
and they make some pretty good wine!
Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Bacchus do well, they compete with similarly priced,
middle-range white wines from NZ, Aus, S Africa etc.
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Agreed, but climate was milder for vineyards in the 11th-12th century. The cooling around 1300 forced them southward, with disastrous consequences for tax raising on wine in France and England. As a vassal of the King of France, the King of England (also Duke of Aquitaine) suddenly possessed the richest wine growing areas in Western Europe (and their tax income). This climate driven economic conflict was one of the underlying causes of the Hundred Years War.
 
Eulalia said:
They do now -
There are > 500 vineyards, total > 2000 Hectares, in England & Wales.
http://www.englishwineproducers.co.uk/
and they make some pretty good wine!
Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Bacchus do well, they compete with similarly priced,
middle-range white wines from NZ, Aus, S Africa etc.
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We certainly don't get any of that here in our liquor stores. We get Australian, NZ, and SA wines, but nothing from the UK. I would try it if we did.
 
Jollyrei said:
We certainly don't get any of that here in our liquor stores. We get Australian, NZ, and SA wines, but nothing from the UK. I would try it if we did.
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Neither we have. Wines are sold from Austalia, NZ, South Africa, South America, California.... Our department stores offer wines from various world wide regions.
But English wine, although the vineyards are only a day driving/boating/tunneling away, is not in their catalogues. Perhaps only in specialised liquor shops.
 
Jollyrei said:
We certainly don't get any of that here in our liquor stores. We get Australian, NZ, and SA wines, but nothing from the UK. I would try it if we did.
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Production is still quite small, and the wines rather expensive, so they have to be searched for even in UK. Very few restaurants stock them.

One aspect is that the big brands like Diageo, Gallo and Treasury are not interested in the smaller UK wineries, and they dominate the supermarket buyers and restaurant wholesalers.

There is a winery here on the fringes of the Windy Pennines, yet it is a long time since I saw any on sale; the best place to drink it is a function hosted by the Lord Mayor, I'm sure the city buys most of the stock to boast about local wine.

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