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 English wine better than French? Now it is time to begin to worship the English wine. In some respects, it still drink for a few, but after many years in the shadow becomes the pride of our nation. Already the same names on the bottles can raise surge of patriotic pride - donrfelder, Reichensteiner, auxerois - and now through the Australian winemakers are to accomplish this task, English wines are conquering the world.
This month they won a record 24 medals at the 26 International Wine Competition, which wants to appear as the largest of its kind event in the world. Die-hard fans of French wines struck dumb with amazement, when Camel Valley Bacchus 2007, produced on seven hectares of former sheep pasture near Bodmin in Cornwall, won the gold medal. A week earlier, during the World Wine Competition (who also assigns a reputation for being the most important), English sparkling wines have won two major awards. This is not the end of the good news. This is an unusual moment in the numbering several thousand years of history of wine, when all the positive signs in Britain. Regions such as Bordeaux and Burgundy can assign your current success summer sun, the hills covered with vines and abundant smooth Vignerons duck cold in rural seedy watering holes. But this will not last long, because the center of events in the wine world is moving somewhere south of Basingstoke. According to current projections of long-term even in this century in southern England reign climate typical of the south-west France, a great Burgundy vineyards, and will produce drunk straight out of the French bar. Gregory Jones, one of the world's leading experts on climate conducive to the cultivation of the vine, says: - ideal conditions for, for example, chianti created in Germany and Belgium for the production of Bordeaux wines in the south of England. Similarly, spoke French expert in the field, Bernard Segiun, who warned the producers in his country, that their existing business models are doomed to extinction. Obtain dominance in the world can take some time, but the amateur tradition, which 20 years ago gave the status of English wines at the most destinations of the past, a new generation of producers maintained their business in a major, commercial scale. Bob Lindo, formerly serving in the RAF, which owns the Camel Valley, doubled production every year, but even their most expensive wine at a price around 18 pounds a bottle, can not satisfy demand. - English wine is truly the wave - he says. - In the image made the revolution. This change, the result of hard work throughout the industry, is a landmark achievement. The existence of English wine was very difficult because with "British wine" - cheap from colonial times produced from imported grape, which no self-respecting wine lover would have taken no mouth. English wine (also involving an appeal of wine produced in Wales) must be produced from grapes grown in Welsh or English in a particular region. One of the easiest ways to distinguish the two drinks without tasting the price, as the English wine is almost always more expensive.
Very helpful for the industry proved to be snobi of the Continent, who are trying to pretend that English wine is not there, he unwittingly created a development perspective. Two years ago the European Union imposed a ban on the creation of new vines. The idea was to reduce the amount spent on buying up huge stocks of unsold wine, originating mainly from France, Italy and Spain. United Kingdom - considered to be negligible problem in this regard - has been exempted from the ban and is now the only EU member which can expand its production of wine. Interest been filled new vineyards in southern England have already expressed several major French champagne producers, including Taittinger and Veuve Clicquot. We not be too far away. The industry is still relatively small. Last year 400 winemakers England produced about three million bottles of wine, less than 0.25 percent of French production, with a substantial part of it is sold directly to shops in the vineyards. Restaurants do not want to order this wine, arguing that the relatively high prices and put off by the image of provincial customers. Also, supermarkets prefer to stick to well-known wines from Europe and the New World, although Waitrose, which has long promoted the English wine, and claims that mastered half of the market, soon arranges English Wine Week. - As our country gets out of truly excellent white wines, sparkling and rosé - says the network responsible for the purchase of wine, Ken Mackay.
There was a huge improvement, especially when it comes to sparkling wines, and some of them are already truly world class. Not everyone shares this opinion. Malcolm Gluck, author of texts about wine and star of BBC television program "Gluck, Gluck, Gluck, fuss: - In view of most experts in the subject and English wine retailers despite the global warming joke. Is clumsily done, too expensive and has significance only for the tourism industry and trade in counties where it is produced. The idea that English sparkling wines are as good or even better than those of Champagne is absolute nonsense. However, we can all agree that the English wine will not die. Apparently, the Romans brought the vine to the UK, although it is not certain whether the wine was manufactured here. Natives strongly preferred mead, believing - as their descendants until the early 70s - That wine is a drink for. Nevertheless, already in the Middle Ages wine was produced in England quite commonly, especially on lands belonging to the Church and aristocracy. Cadastral book from the time of William the Conqueror recorded close to 50 seats from the vineyards, from East Anglia in Somerset. Henry VIII as the volume of wine production in England was reportedly such as in France, but the liquidation of the monasteries, and possibly cooling of the climate, very weakened the industry. Viticulture has survived in a few enclaves. When Samuel Pepys visited a friend in 1667 year, noted in his diary: "Sir W. Batten suggested invited a few bottles of wine from the previous year of the vineyard in Walthamstow, and all declared that better, even foreign, did not drink in my life." True revival began after World War II, when General Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones, a former military attache in Paris and a great frankofil founded in a small commercial vineyard near his home in Hampshire. Twenty years later began to develop modern winemaking. Wine grape varieties came mainly from Germany, knowledge of the production from Australia and New Zealand, and the buyers were curious and eccentrics. The wine is supposed to truth and the truth is that English wine - no longer as an object of jokes - enters the scene.
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