Wine
fromwww.theguardian.com
15 hours agoGrowing knowledge, growing yield: British wine-making comes of age
English vineyards are thriving, producing award-winning wines, but face challenges from climate change.
My grandfather Peter Hall, who has died aged 82, was one of England's best known winegrowers. The writer Andrew Jefford described him as the father of the contemporary English wine scene a significant feat for anyone, let alone a man who taught himself winemaking from a paperback, and whose self-planted vineyard totalled six acres. Breaky Bottom Vineyard, near Lewes, in East Sussex, was Peter's passion. For five decades he worked meticulously on it: tending the vines by hand, labelling each bottle.