Danbury Ridge – sneak preview of future releases
I was invited to Danbury Ridge Wine Estate last month to see, or more importantly, taste, how their yet to…
Category: Vineyard Visits
Women in English & Welsh Wine
We enjoyed a fabulous tasting on International Women’s Day on 8 March, with 6 women in English & Welsh wine…
Nyetimber – English Sparkling Wine at its best
Nyetimber put English Sparkling Wine on the international map. They were the first English Vineyard to see the enormous potential…
A tale of four Norfolk vineyards
A guest blog post by Peter Divey Alas, I do not have a wine cellar, but a rack under the…
Simpsons Wine Estate interview – 2020 still wines tasting
Matt Hodgson, Managing Director of premier English & Welsh wine specialist retailers Grape Britannia, discusses the fabulous 2020 vintage with…
Danbury Ridge Wine Estate – an emerging star
An emerging star of English wine It’s rare to see such unanimous consensus on the outstanding quality of an estate’s…
A special tasting with Balfour Hush Heath
Balfour were one of the first estates we visited once the idea of setting up Grape Britannia started to become…
Woodchester Valley – a Cotswold Classic
Woodchester Valley Vineyard has a couple of claims to fame – highest vineyard in the UK (probably), and most fossils…
Chapel Down: brilliant and bold
What is Chapel Down? Chapel Down is the largest producer of English wine. But that doesn’t mean that they are…
Hattingley Valley – “Unapologetically British”
Another English vineyard, another new building signposting the expansion of the English wine industry. In this case, the “Shed”, for…