Here at Wiston, a lush vineyard amid the rolling hills of the South Downs, Kirsty Goring is explaining why Sussex produces such fine wine.
It's not just the south-facing slopes and the mild climate. As she tells me, over a flute of fizz, it's a rare combination of three types of soil: sand, clay and chalk.
‘It has amazing terroir,’ says Kirsty, who runs this estate with her husband, Richard, and his parents. ‘You can get some wonderfully balanced wines, with different grape varieties.’ I'm no wine buff but as I glug down
