English wine spring celebration

Fox & Fox vineyard in October

For British wine lovers charity begins at home – drink English wine this weekend and raise money for The Drinks Trust and Hospitality Action. The beautiful photo above is of the Fox & Fox vineyard in Mayfield, Sussex.

Last year, just two weeks into what turned out to be only the first of several lockdowns, we celebrated the first English wine night, coming out in glasses-raised support of small producers who were already starting to be badly hit by the total paralysis of tourism and hospitality. A year later, battered but standing, the English wine industry has decided to...