England & Wales Flashcards
Name the main wine producing regions of England
East and West Sussex
Surrey
Kent (garden of England)
Hampshire
Essex
Dorset
Devon
Cornwall
Somerset
Gloucestershire
Name the top sparkling wine producers of England
Nyetimber (Sussex and Kent, 1988)
Ridgeview Estate (Sussex)
Wiston Estate (Sussex)
Hoffmann & Rathbone (Sussex)
Rathfinny (Sussex)
Bolney (Sussex)
Court Garden (Sussex)
Gusbourne Estate (Kent)
Chapel Down (Kent, one of UKs largest producers)
Biddenden Vineyards (Kent’s oldest winery)
Domaine Evremond (Kent)
Hush Health (Kent)
Westwell (Kent)
Balfour Winery (Kent)
Denbies Wine Estate (Surrey’s largest producer)
High Clandon (Surrey)
Albury Vineyard (Surrey)
Greyfriars Vineyard (Surrey)
Hambledon Vineyard (Hampshire)
Jenkyn Place (Hampshire)
Hattingley Valley Wines (Hampshire)
Langham Wine Estate (Dorset)
Camel Valley (Cormwall)
Name the grape varieties of England
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Meunier, Ortega
Germanic varieties like Bacchus, Reichensteiner and the French hybrid, Seyval Blanc are widely planted and some are used to make fruitier, simpler styles of sparkling wine via the Charmat method where the second fermentation takes place in tank. These varieties are also used to produce still wines
For PDO English sparkling wine, only six varieties are
allowed:Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Noir Précoce (a
mutation of Pinot Noir that ripens two weeks earlier than
Pinot Noir), Meunier, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Dorn-felder are now appearing in still wines with more regularity, and other higher-quality varieties such as Albariño are being planted
England is located at which latitude?
The northerly latitude – all vineyards are located above 50°– results in long daylight hours and
a cool climate, a combination highly suitable for traditional method sparkling wine
There are vineyards in Wales and other parts of the UK; however, the vineyards of southern
England account for?
85 per cent of all production
Taittinger invested in?
Kent in 2015 under Domaine Evremond
The majority of the country’s vineyards are in the south east in ?
Surrey, Kent and Sussex
Louis Pommery England was produced in?
2018 by Vranken-Pommery
Hybrids are permitted for quality wines?
No
