This week is English Wine Week, an annual celebration that I think, looking at Jancis’s article English wine – far from a joke now, written in 2007, has been going for nearly 20 years. The first English wines we have wine reviews for on the website date back to 2004. Between the start of 2004 and the start of 2010, we (Jancis, mostly) tasted 159 English...
English wine leaves home
Monday 23 June 2025
• 6 min read
Tam goes on a wine-and-food-pairing spree for English Wine Week. While reviewing dozens of English wines, now exported around the world, she finds they hold their own no matter how challenging the cuisine.
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