English Vineyard interviews — Champagne

Taittinger UK Domaine Evremond Vineyard interview with Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger The famous Champagne house Taittinger have planted an English vineyard to produce English sparkling wine. The English sparkling wines will be ready for release in the coming years. Whilst the vineyard has been planted and is soon to bear its English grapes, we  caught up with Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger to find out more.  Pierre, could you provide some background on your career? I suppose for me it begins in 1976. My uncle Claude was in charge and I joined the business as a salesman and in fact one of my first experiences was...

Louis Pommery English sparkling wine  The famous Louis Pommery have planted an English vineyard in Hampshire so that they can produce their own English sparkling wines. After a visit in 2017 they fell 'in love with the magnificent region'. Since then, the vineyard has produced it's first English sparkling wine and it is already being celebrated by critics as a triumph and a welcome addition to this prestigious Champagne house.   We contacted Louis Pommery and interviewed Clement Pierlot their winemaker on the new English sparkling wine. Clément, welcome to the English wine Collection’s Vineyard focus. To start, could you provide...

Where should you go to learn about wine in England? There are many different  colleges around the UK that offer WSET level training to improve and develop your own wine knowledge.  We decided as part of our English wine interviews we'd go to the only dedicated wine college in England that even has it's own vineyard! We discover that the students get involved with all parts of the wine making process and even have their names on the bottles of wine that they have been apart of producing.

In this English vineyard interview we chat to Christopher from Denbies' wine estate who tells us about the story  behind this English vineyard.  With such a wonderful summer things are looking very 'promising' indeed for this English vineyard.

A wonderful, in-depth interview with Engin from Trevibban Mill vineyard. In this English vineyard interview, Engin tells us his career history that lead him to purchasing land in Cornwall to plant his very own English vineyard. Like many of the English vineyard owners Engin took a complete career change to pursue a passion for the finest English wines.