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German| Date: 2004-07-29 11:21:45 |
| From: Markgräfler - Weinservice |
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 > > hello david, hello leon why not promoting english wines ? in my opinion it doesn't matter from which point on earth the wine is..if it's a good quality it's a good quality..that's the matter, isn't it ? but for me the point was: the quality wasn't only good or ok or "nice to drink".... NO: it was really on a high level plus an own characteristic and made not only for the next 3-4 month. any friends comes to our house have to go over that bridge & i look forward to see their "oh...aha....and the astonish in the faces...;-) kindest regards sigi This message was created using the Web-based forum : www.wein-plus.com/forum/ |
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