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    Think of England

    Jun 03, 2021 2 minutes
    WORDS: FIONA BECKETT

    When I first started writing about wine in the early 1990s, the English wine industry was widely regarded as a bit of a joke. The wines were generally off-dry, based on obscure hybrid grape varieties such as seyval blanc and reichensteiner, and weren’t taken very seriously at all.

    However, the realisation that the chalky soil of southern England was very

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