English wine hits a milestone
Tuesday 18 June 2024
England's wine industry is booming, and with its maturation has come as many growing pains as there are great wines. Tam surveys both.
The first book on English (UK) wine that ever landed on my desk for review was Liz Sagues’ slender A Celebration of English Wine in late 2018. In my opening paragraph of that review, I wrote: ‘not much in the way of books has been available on wine in Great Britain since Hugh Barty-King and Don Philpott published their books way back in 1989.’
I now have 10 books on UK wine taking up a respectable chunk...
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