English Wine Reviews

Folc English Rosé- Shaking Up The English Wine Scene

Folc; noun: people, tribe, family. A high quality English Rosé that brings people together. The Story What do you picture when you think about English Wine? Rollings hills, lush vineyards, perhaps a multi generational family estate? Folc is none of those things and yet it has all the makings of a wonderful English Wine in…

Chapel Down Rosé Brut

🥂Chapel Down Rosé Brut 📍Where to buy: @waitrose @chapeldown 💷 £26.99 🍇 100% Pinot Noir I really need no excuse to pop a bottle of English Fizz….but if I did neeeeeed one Big English Wine Easter (BEWE) is a great one, ok it’s it not quite Easter weekend yet but we’re on the lead up…

Hush Heath Estate, The Suitcase Pinot Noir 2018

🍷Balfour Hush Heath Estate: The Suitcase Pinot Noir, 2018 📍Where to buy: Majestic & Hush Heath website 💷 £34.99 (or £29.99 part of mixed 6) 🍇 Pinot Noir I have been enjoying this bottle over the weekend, an impressive one to finish off my week of English Wine tastings. Following last weeks tentative timeline release…

Chapel Down Kit’s Coty Chardonnay, 2017

My second wine tasting with The Pig Hotel- this time the theme was English Wine with the Wine Garden of England Another wonderfully well organised event, where we heard from vineyards owners, winemakers and team members that make up the six Kent wineries in the Wine Garden of England Group- Chapel Down, Gusbourne, Biddenden, Simpsons,…

Woodchester Valley Rosé Brut

🍷 Woodchester Valley Rosé Brut📍Where to buy: @woodchestervalleyvineyard @winebuyers💷 £26🍇 90% Pinot noir, 10% Pinot Meunier🥈 Silver Medal awarded this week in the Decanter world wine awards!🥂 Delicious bubbly picked up in the Cotswolds on weekend trip away in September. 👁 Lovely pale salmon colour 👃 Strawberries and Raspberries on the nose 👅 Light, fine…

Ridgeview Fitzrovia Sparkling Rosé

Ridgeview Fitzrovia Rosé was served to Barack Obama & Her Majesty the Queen at a Buckingham Palace State Banquet, if it’s good enough for them…..?! A blend of the three noble grapes, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir & Pinot Meunier made with the Great British Classic Method (our equivalent of Champagne – Méthod Traditionelle). It won a…

Chapel Down NV Brut

Chapel Down Brut- The first English wine I tried and have been hooked since! Chapel Down based in Kent is amongst one of the most well known wine estates in the UK and is widely available to buy in the supermarkets, making it accessible to all. Beautiful flavour of crisp green apples, pear and citrus.…

Simpson Cantebury Sparkling Rosé

🥂 Simpsons Canterbury Sparkling Rosé, 2018📍Where to buy: @simpsonswine @grape_britannia @corkk_wine @elizabethrosewines💷 £29.99🍇 Pinot Noir  A Beautiful Sparking Rosé from a Vineyard in Kent. I could rave all day about the Simpsons wines having loved all the ones I have tried previously and their famous Roman Road Chardonnay having won “best in show” at the Decanter…

Greyfriars Blanc de Noirs NV

🥂Greyfriars Blanc de Noirs NV📍Where to buy: @greyfriarsvineyard💷 £32🍇 60% Pinot Noir from 2015 40% Pinot Meunier from 2014 I picked up this bottle along with a bottle of their Pinot Grigio on a visit to the Vineyard and cellar door a few weeks before Christmas.   I was really looking forward to trying this one…