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Tamlyn Currin

Tamlyn Currin

Tuesday 31 October 2023 • 1 min read

Vines in a Cold Climate by Henry Jeffreys - book jacket

‘Is English wine good, or GFE (good for England)?’ Read Henry Jeffreys' latest to find out …

Vines in a Cold Climate
The people behind the English wine revolution
Henry Jeffreys
Published by Allen & Unwin
ISBN 9781838956653
£16.99

Pretty much all of Henry Jeffreys’s working life has been in publishing, editing and writing, but it was a part-time university job at Oddbins that lit his love for wine. He landed a job at The Lady writing a wine column, started an articulate and lively blog, Henry’s World of Booze (which has now moved to Substack), and wrote the winning...

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