The secret of British sparkling rosé
telegraph.co.uksales of English and Welsh wine surpassed production figures, with 9.3 million bottles sold and the equivalent of 8.95 million bottles made from the 2021 harvest.
It’s one of many landmark moments enjoyed as the homegrown wine industry continues to develop with impressive speed. We are still learning.
Around us, it’s as if pixels keep being added in sudden patches to the knowledge map of English and Welsh wine – here the Crouch Valley in Essex emerges as a superb place in which to ripen grapes, there a winemaker hones a technique for managing acidity levels.One of the unexpected discoveries is that English grapes make particularly good sparkling rosé.
Every time I do a big tasting of UK wines, the sparkling rosés perform notably well. Matthew Horsley, who buys England and Wales for The Wine Society, agrees and has a theory. ‘Why is English sparkling rosé so good?
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