Wine from the United Kingdom

British wine is produced in southern England and South Wales in small quantities. Viticulture was especially favored by the warmer summer in recent years. In addition, it is speculated that the vineyards could be extended as a result of global warming in this climatic boundary region in the future. According to English - wine.com in 2006 there were about 400 vineyards, but most of which are quite small, with a total area of about 2,000 acres.

British wine covers about one percent of household consumption in the UK.

History

The Romans tried in their province of Britannia north of Lincolnshire producing wine, but what proved to be the weather too cold and too wet. Nevertheless, the wine was continued with forty vineyards up to the Normans, as mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the Middle Ages was the British market 's biggest customer sweeter wines such as sherry, port and Madeira wine from Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal and France.

In the 20th century

The wine was launched in the seventies, again, favored by global warming, which has made many parts of Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire dry and warm enough to produce wine of the highest quality. The UK's first wines were influenced by the sweet German wines such as Liebfrauenmilch and Hock, very popular in the seventies, and were simply mixed white wines and sweet red wines, which were named cream wine ( creams ). The largest wine in England is operated in Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey, which has 265 acres of wine and a visitor center which is open all year.

The British wine accelerated in the 1990s, when wine from rather atypical growing regions, such as Australia, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa became more popular and the British customer accepted more and more wine, which did not come from the traditional wine growing areas. The UK wine industry made ​​it according to the new wines and provided good quality wines, such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir here. 2004 saw a body that rated European sect, most of the top ten places to British wines - the remaining positions went to French champagne.

The wine has also spread to the Midlands and northern England, where Yorkshire and Lancashire proud each may have a vineyard.

Label regulations

The United Kingdom is known for its loose regulations in terms of labeling, if one compares it with the rest of Europe. Most specify only the grape variety, vintage year, the location, the quantity and alcohol content. This is evident from the influence of wines from the new territories.

Varieties

Overall, you will find plantations with the Pinot Noir, Dark Fields, Regent, Faber, Bacchus, Reichensteiner, Madeleine Angevine, Auxerrois, rondo, Seyval Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Red Elfling, Elfling, Optima, Pinot Blanc, Ehrenfelser, Ortega, Pinot Meunier, Müller -Thurgau, Huxelrebe, Phoenix, Kernling, Triomphe d'Alsace, Merlot, Scheurebe, Schönburger, Cascade and Léon Millot. Due to the cool climate viticulture, the proportion of matched new varieties falls from very high.