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Celebration Of English Wine
English wine has greatly changed in recent years. Royalty and heads of government drink it and pour it for foreign dignitaries, and it is sold to some thirty wine-drinking nations and even beats champagne in blind tasting challenges. Its main grape varieties are major international names and its makers are skilled professionals. From a largely amateur-instigated cottage industry it has become an increasingly serious, quality-led commercial proposition - one that regularly makes news at home and abroad. This book explains why and how that has come about, telling the story of winemaking in England from the Romans to the present era. Most of all, it celebrates the wine itself and the people who make it. Its pages takes readers on a virtual tour of many of the UK's most significant vineyards, long established or comparatively new, in the southern heartland of vine growing, on the western and northern fringes or at points in between. The reader will meet men and women whose expertise, character and belief have created wines of which all Britons can be truly proud. Foreword by Oz Clarke.
176 pages, Paperback
Published March 26, 2018
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September 5, 2018
With the changing climate , heatwaves, droughts and increasing erratic weather I was wondering about the potential of vineyards in Ireland. This book is a really good discussion of the birth and growth of the industry in the UK and the challenges. It answered most of the questions I had.
One of the main interests I had in wine is from reading Dmitry orlovs five stages of collapse, where he talks about vodka being the unit of currency in a collapsed soviet union. So I am interested in wine as a possible back up currency in a period of deep depression. Unfortunately perhaps the focus on Sparkling wine and the premium wines in the book made this seem like a very dubious potential backup for a community. One of the quotes saying that you need a large fortune to make a fortune in the wine business seems to indicate that the industry is really only the froth at the top of an overheated financial system.
The relative output per acre perhaps could mean a community could produce in a severe depression a significant numbers of bottles of wine. The presence of a good college for training in the UK makes one think that perhaps a good project might be looking at this.
It is gratifying seeing the discussion of climate change. It does give a good idea of the pros and cons in terms of wine production. I was assuming that increasing temperature would be predominately good.
One of the main interests I had in wine is from reading Dmitry orlovs five stages of collapse, where he talks about vodka being the unit of currency in a collapsed soviet union. So I am interested in wine as a possible back up currency in a period of deep depression. Unfortunately perhaps the focus on Sparkling wine and the premium wines in the book made this seem like a very dubious potential backup for a community. One of the quotes saying that you need a large fortune to make a fortune in the wine business seems to indicate that the industry is really only the froth at the top of an overheated financial system.
The relative output per acre perhaps could mean a community could produce in a severe depression a significant numbers of bottles of wine. The presence of a good college for training in the UK makes one think that perhaps a good project might be looking at this.
It is gratifying seeing the discussion of climate change. It does give a good idea of the pros and cons in terms of wine production. I was assuming that increasing temperature would be predominately good.
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