English wine is growing in popularity and is increasingly recognised as a premium wine-producing region, with more than 450 wineries and around 3.15m bottles produced a year.
The most popular grapes varieties grown in English vineyards are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Bacchus, as well as Pinot Meunier and Ortega.
Whilst vineyards are found across the whole of England, the climate of the South and South East makes it a particularly popular region for growing vines, especially in Hampshire, Sussex and Kent.
2018 saw a bumper harvest, with yields doubled in some vineyards.
In December 2015, Champagne Taittinger announced it was buying a vineyard in Kent and would produce an English sparkling wine.
English sparkling wine specifically has been highly praised for its quality, collecting three Platinum and six Gold medals in the 2018 Decanter World Wine Awards.
English winemakers should not be distracted by side projects to get appellation status for regions like Sussex and need a singular focus to promote their image abroad, Richard Balfour-Lynn has argued.
Moves by several English wine producers to establish protected name status for Sussex has drawn a rebuke from Chapel Down, a rival wine company based outside of the region.
Drinking a glass of ‘Sussex’ could soon become a reality with English wine producers poised to bid for the same protected name status as Champagne and Bordeaux.
Police have launched an investigation after burglars stole English wine worth £80,000 from a warehouse at Bolney Wine Estate in southern England.
English winery Chapel Down is producing what it believes is the country's first skin contact white wine.
English wine group Chapel Down has leased another 73 hectares of 'prime vineyard land' in southern England to cater for expected consumer demand.
Rising consumer demand for English and Welsh wine both at home and abroad could see annual sales approach £100m by the end of 2015, according to industry estimates.
Mike Roberts MBE, a pioneer of English wine and co-founder of one of the country's best-known estates, Ridgeview, has died.
English wine producers are hailing 2014 as a year to remember after a warm, dry September produced one of the earliest harvests in recent times.
London Cru, the winery in the heart of the UK capital, is to make its first English wine from the 2014 vintage after being impressed with the quality of this year's harvest.
A £2m laboratory that is intended to put southern England on the world map for wine research has been opened by the Duchess of Cornwall.
Nyetimber head winemaker Cherie Spriggs talks to Decanter about the new 2009 Tillington Single Vineyard, as well as the challenges of managing Nyetimber's diverse vineyards.
The Duchess of Cornwall officially opened the new £2.5m all gravity-fed state-of-the-art winery at Hambledon Vineyard in Hampshire this week.
English winery Chapel Down is to invest more than £4m in a 'significant' vine planting programme and to expand the company's fast-growing beer business.
English winemakers are looking to build on their higher profile following last year's Jubilee and Olympics celebrations with a greater push on exports in 2013.
England's largest wine estate, Nyetimber, has announced it will be making no 2012 sparkling wine, because the difficult growing season means it can not produce sufficiently high quality wine from its grapes.
The English grape harvest will be about two weeks later and smaller than normal – with winemakers hoping for a fine September to save the vintage.
As England continues to suffer the wettest early summer since records began, winemakers are beginning to wonder if they are going to have any grapes to harvest at all.
English sparkling wines spearheaded bumper wine sales over the Jubilee weekend in the UK, initial figures show.
Mike Roberts of Ridge View – looking as though he had just caught a whiff of TCA on one of his most prized vintages – summed up the whole affair in one sentence. 'Why was it necessary to make it so flippant?'
English Wine Producers (EWP) has unveiled a new logo and branding designed to reinforce its message about English wines to consumers and the trade.
