England is perhaps best known for its sparkling wines. The country’s winemakers have certainly made a go at assailing the fortress of marketing that Champagne has built over the centuries, with English plantings of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier thriving in the cool climate and chalky soils of Sussex and Kent. While its commercial wine industry is relatively young, wine has been made in England since the Roman’s settled Londinivm.
Since then, English wine has had a somewhat notorious reputation. Though if English winemakers ever were ‘farmers playing at winemaking’ they have come to learn the game very well.
