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Most supermarkets sell some English wine now. Lidl have a Plumpton white and a Denbies Rose, which is fantastic. Sainsburys have chapel down and Waitrose have Bolney, Plumpton and Nyetimber, at least.

If you have a very good knowledge of wine then I bow to it, but I've found it to be consistently excellent, and I know for a fact that they don't produce any wine at all in poor years where they don't believe the quality of the grapes is up to standard.

This, it's called curious brew, we had it as our lager of choice last Christmas.

It says so on their website. :shrug:

See also: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/11451759/English-wine-You-wont-catch-me-with-a-glass-of-Sussex....html

"Nyetimber is in the fortunate position to own one hundred percent of our vineyards and all of our wines are produced from the 170 hectares we have planted at the best sites in West Sussex and Hampshire."

I assume the grape varieties will be the same as for champagne - pinot noir, pinot meunier (sp?) and chardonnay. For cornish pasties it's bloody silly though, as you can have flour, beef, swede and potato from all over the world, made in Cornwall, and it's a Cornish pasty. But if you have all...

Looks like they go right up to the border! https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/West+Sussex/@50.9399861,-0.1372532,6711m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47df58434716977f:0xaea9abe6ecb97dc2!8m2!3d50.9280143!4d-0.4617075

There are various papers on this, but in essence it's a marketing tool! Champagne is a brand, and people buy wines purely because they're called "Champagne", even though there are excellent sparkling wines from other regions of France (Loire, Alsace, Burgundy, etc.). The same applies for...

Oh it really does. https://www.cellarit.com.au/wine-blog/australian-sparkling/australias-top-5-nv-sparkling-champagne-style-wines/

They wouldn't, the point is that wines from Sussex will have AOC protection and be promoted as such, whereas they won't. It's particularly bad for Nyetimber, who may not even be able to put Sussex on their labels any more.

I'm guessing two of the largest English vineyards - Denbies (Surrey) and Chapel Down (Kent) won't be too pleased. I gather Nyetimber will also be excluded as some of their grapes come from just over the border in Hampshire - and they fought against this as a result. So they probably weren't the...