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German| Date: 2004-07-28 23:37:38 |
| From: David Williams |
Subject: RE: sparkling wine..what a great |
| I happen to be a Englishman living in southern Germany and saw this correspondence about Nyetimber sparkling wine. In case anyone is interested it is produced in the Orchard Hive and Wine vineyard in West Chiltingham and I have found a phone number, 01798 (in the UK) 813989. West Chiltingham is a small pretty village neart Storington and Washington. (Bet you didn't know the US Washington was named after a sleepy West Sussex village!) I don't personally know anything about Nyetimer wines but there is a revival of wine production in the UK, mostly in the south. East Anglia and Wales. I think there are currently around 30+ vineyards. People think it's odd but wine has been made in England since Roman times and was a monastic tradition in the middle ages. Wine was killed largely in the 18th cent. by spirits like gin (see Hogarth) and then by taxation in the late 19th and early 20th cents. English vineyards have similar climate and growing conditions to Champagne and the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer area of Germany so there is no reason why English wine should not be produced. Riesling and other white wine grapes are grown and I agree and can testify some of them are excellent. (I don't quite know why I'm promoting English wine so enthusiastically since I'm just starting a business to sell good German wine, the kind you which goes a few steps beyond Liebfraumilch and which you don't find in your supermarket or Oddbins. But as a wine lover I admit that English wine is, in my experience, usually carefully made and worth drinking, albeit it on the expensive side). David Williams -----Original Message----- From: wineforum_owner@apris.de [mailto:wineforum_owner@apris.de]On Behalf Of Leon Stolarski Sent: 28 July 2004 20:29 To: wineforum@wein-plus.com Subject: [wineforum] Re: sparkling wine..what a great surprise Hello Sigi (and all on the wineforum list) I do not have personal experience of Nyetimber sparkling wines, but I do know that the Queen serves it to visiting heads of state from all around the world, at state banquets. Enough said, I suppose! By the way, I don't know how I came to be a "subscriber" to this list, but it is most interesting. By the way, if anyone reading this in the U.K is a fan of wines from the Languedoc and Rhone, you may like to visit our site at www.lsfinewines.co.uk and take a look. Cheap shot, I know, but you could always join our mailing list, too - we are a relatively new business, and need as many visitors as we can get - and our wine list will soon grow, when we add even more great wines! Regards Leon Stolarski ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markgräfler - Weinservice" <info@markgraefler-weinservice.de> To: <wineforum@wein-plus.de> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: [wineforum] sparkling wine..what a great surprise > > hello, > last sunday we tasted an sparkling wine...bevor go further i have to > say we're living in england since 6 weeks & i don't know the market > very well. the wine costs 19 £ which is a good price for - example - > a champagne. all the good known labels starts up from ca. 22 > £.....thats what i found so far. now this one was a vintage sparkling > wine from 1996....chardonnay dominated plus pinot meunier & pinot > noir. the wine was really good...like a typicall chardonnay dominated > sparkling wine....racy....good length....complexy structure...yellow > fruits apard with green granny smith apples.....very fine toasty > notes....and have the potential for another 2-3 years & if you like > matured sparkling wines also for 4-5 years. > > it was an english sparkling wine...i was you can say shocked about > the absolute great quality.....there is no question to compare it > with excellent sparkling wines from champagne...franciacorta...ect. > > 1996 nyetimber,brut classic blend, traditional method, from west > sussex. do anyone knows this wine ? > > regards sigi > > This message was created using the Web-based forum : > www.wein-plus.com/forum/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.577 / Virus Database: 366 - Release Date: 03/02/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.577 / Virus Database: 366 - Release Date: 03/02/2004 |
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