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Emerging Vines has emerged!

October 8, 2017 Laurence Pettitt
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For our first ever blog post we thought we’d share our story so far and provide the reasons behind our ongoing love affair with English wine!

Having established ourselves back in April ‘17, the past 6 months have been an amazing blur of wine, cheese, vineyard visits and tastings. Of-course we have occasionally battled with inevitable stress thrown up by starting a new business however this has been overshadowed by the overwhelming friendliness and support shown by all of the English Wine producers we have worked with so far.

Over the last 10 years, English and Welsh Wine has snowballed into national and international headlines. Whilst the polar icecaps grumble, English winemakers are certainly making the most of increasingly temperate growing conditions - the current English climate is similar to that of the Champagne region in France, almost 60 years ago. Whilst it is commonplace to thank the change in climate for a revival of English viticulture, it is also important to realise that winemakers in our country are getting younger and younger. There are a significant amount of passionate and committed English youngsters working their way up through the wine production ranks and we believe that this is part of the reason for the industry’s many successes. Where budding young winemakers may previously have gone abroad and stayed, they are now returning to home soil to feed their skills back into our own industry.

Then there are those on the other side of the industry, the Sommeliers, Bloggers, Merchants and of course consumers, all of which are supporting the industry by listing, selling and buying English Wine. UHY Hacker Young have literally just reported figures showing 76% increase in Sparkling Wine Sales in the last five years and the success of English Sparkling has made a huge contribution to this statistic.

Our aim as a business is to spread the word and to provide everyone with the opportunity to experience what this country has to offer and to support all the hard working producers.

From countryside estates steeped in history to brand new state of the art wineries popping up at a rapid pace - our aim is to provide an informative and fun link between producers and consumers. We will be working closely with English and Welsh producers with the aim of sourcing quality, unique and up and coming wines from the country's best and most exciting. Our goal is to provide light hearted and informative producer profiles, easy going tasting notes and a general background into the industry on our home turf.

Keep your eyes peeled for regular blog updates and join The English Wine Movement!

 

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← Winter in an English Winery
Here we have a very happy vineyard manager! Meet @ollywhitfield from @langhamwinery
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Olly and his team have just finished pruning 40,000 vines in Dorset which put a massive smile on his face. ✂️🌱
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Around the country, many other producers will be coming to the end of their pruning if they haven’t already. This incredibly important task is done during the winter months when you want to be inside staying warm🔥🔥
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Pruning affects how the vine grows over the coming years and will actually have more of an impact on the harvest in 18 months time - more than you might realise! Well done Olly 👏👌
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#englishwinemovement #vineyard #pruning #smilesallround #dorset #chardonnay #pinotnoir #pinotmeunier #tyingdown #wine #uk #englishwine #englishsparklingwine #englishvineyard #viticulture #vines #winterjobs
Plans for an epic new Winery for @wistonestate - further evidence that the English Wine Movement is going from strength to strength💪🏻🍾
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‘Slightly surreal this, one decade after making our first wine and one year after winning @winegb ‘winery of the year’, we are now building the sort of winery that  every wine lover will want to visit’ - Dermot Sugrue - Winemaker (pictured center)🥂👏🏻
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Photo Credits: @wistonestate @totalhospitalitysolutions #englishwinemovement #englishwine #englishsparklingwine #wine #lovewine #vino #winetasting #winery #architecture #plans #vineyard #design #progress
Hectarage of Vitis Vinifera (grape vines) planted in Great Britain has grown by 150% in the last 10 years & tripled since 2000 - @winegb 🍇🌱
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The organic and biodynamic @alburyvineyard (pictured) is situated on the southern slopes of the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey Hills, just outside Guildford on the A25 towards Dorking. This beautiful vineyard is now open to the public every Saturday! 🍾🥂🍾🥂
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Photo Credits: @myislandintheclouds #englishwinemovement #winegb #englishsparklingwine #englishwine #wine #vino #organic #biodynamicwine #biodynamic #wineindustry #vineyard
Who has worked a harvest in the Southern Hemisphere? ☀🍇
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Whilst the vines in England are sound asleep, some English winemakers/viticulturists choose to hone their skills abroad🍇🌞
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Our good friend @charles_to_that (second from right) is currently in Australia working a vintage with the iconic @mac_forbes_wines - we couldn’t be more jealous👏🏼👏🏼
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Photo Credits: @mac_forbes_wines #australia #melbourne #victoria #englishwine #englishwinemaker #travellingwinemakers #nomadviticulturist #vintageabroad

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