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Vintage information pre-2018 was kindly provided by Stephen Skelton MW
Probably the best vintage of the modern era thanks to the warm summer that produced large volumes of top-quality fruit. While the sparkling wines will be excellent, it is the still wines that are especially promising, especially the Chardonnay and Pinot Noirs. See also 2018 – England’s miracle vintage .
Better yields than in 2016, though frost damage affected many vineyards in the south-east of England. Sugar levels were good at harvest, thanks to some hot spells in June and a mostly dry harvest period, and acid levels were mostly well-balanced too. Total harvest 4.5 m bottles off 2,275 hectares.
Very low yields made things difficult for many producers, but quality was at least generally good. The eastern part of England had the better weather, and ripeness reached record levels in many cases. Total harvest 4.15 m bottles off 2,100 hectares.
A frost-free spring led to a cool spring. Flowering weather was very good, but two weeks late, and with a cool summer, characterised by untypical cool nights, grapes were slow to develop. August and most of September were cooler than average and many growers were despairing of harvesting later varieties. However, a good end to September and an exceptionally warm October saved growers and most picked good yields of healthy grapes. Altogether a very good year for both still and sparkling wines, although Chardonnay based sparkling wines will want long ageing. Total harvest estimated to be 4.5 m bottles off 1,600 hectares.
A dream year for UK vineyards with little frost, very good flowering weather, a cool wet August, but warm September and October. Most growers had very good crops with excellent sugars and acids. Still wines very good and sparklers up to the high quality of 2009. Total harvest 6.32 m bottles off 1,506 hectares.
An early frost-free spring then led to a cool spell with very good, but very late, flowering weather. Grapes developed slowly with one of the latest harvests on record in modern times. Some growers still picking in mid-November. Not a great year for still wines and sparklers will be long-lived. Total harvest 4.45 m bottles off 1,571 hectares.
A year best forgotten for many growers. Really bad flowering weather and high disease pressures saw some growers (but by no means all) pick nothing. However, those wines that were produced are of good quality. Total yield 1.03 m bottles off 1,297 hectares. Lowest average yield ever recorded.
Poor flowering with widespread millerandage especially on Pinots saw some growers struggling. Fair quality, but not the greatest. Total vintage 3.02 m bottles off 1,208 hectares.
Ideal flowering conditions and a warm summer saw another early harvest with some growers having to pick Pinots early as sugars were getting too high. A very good year for both still and sparkling wines. Total vintage 4.05 m bottles off 1,095 hectares.
Very little spring frost, perfect flowering weather, rain at the right time and warm dry weather at the end of the season resulted in an early harvest with high sugars and balanced acids. Great year for both still and sparkling wines. Total vintage 3.18 m bottles off 946 hectares.
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Britain's Best Destinations for All Day Antique Hunting Sprees
If you love antique shopping, England is a great place to visit. And these are some of the best towns and villages to visit for a good old rummage.
Antique shopping is addictive. Once you've got the bug, no vacation or holiday getaway is complete without time spent bargaining over antiques and collectibles or poking through bric-a-brac. And one little antique shop - no matter how full of treasures - is never as good as a whole street of them, lined up one after the other, or a market with more dealers than you can possibly visit in less than a whole day.
These towns and villages in England are devoted to antiques and collectibles, with concentrations of antique dealers and shops dense enough to please the most avid antique hunter. This, by no means comprehensive list, represents our personal favorites.
The antiques center is collection of buildings, including a former granary and a range of barns, sheds and cottages, open every day from about 10am to 5:30pm. At any one time, at least 80 antiques dealers trade in a very wide range of items including stamps, jewelry, ephemera, furniture, vintage clothing, lamps, music boxes and musical instruments and, yes, plain old fashioned dusty junk. Paradise.
This isn't the sort of place where posh interior decorators find elegant 18th century Italian furniture. It's a real grab bag of antiques. But there are real treasures to be found, like the convertible, art deco occasional table I took home for thirty quid.
Where: Essex, about 40 miles from London, midway between Chelmsford and Southend beside the A130. The village takes its name from a family named Bataille who once looked after the bridge over the River Crouch beside the Granary.
By Train: Take the Southend Line from Liverpool Street Station in London and change at Wickford for Southminster. Battlesbridge is the first stop on that line. The centre is about a third of a mile from the station. Check National Rail Enquiries for times and prices.
Food and Drink: Confirmed shophounds need sustenance. There are one or two small, basic cafes scattered among the traders but most people head for the on-site, traditional pub, The Barge Inn , for pub grub, beers and wines.
If you really like to immerse yourself in antiques, you could spend days pouring over wonderful things in this traditional English market town about halfway between London and Bristol. There are at least 18 antique shops, several large, multi-dealer antiques centers and regularly held flea markets and antiques fairs.
Start in the Hungerford Antiques Arcade . This mega mall of stuff was voted Britain's Best Antiques Center in 2012 by readers of the BBC's Homes and Antiques magazine. It hosts at least 100 dealers of antiques and collectibles, at 26-27 High Street and on Wednesdays, there's a photogenic outdoor market right outside. At The Emporium , a blue and white Victorian building at 112 High Street, 60 dealers set out their wares and at Great Grooms on Charnam Street, just outside the town center, dealers spread out over three stories in a beautiful Queen Anne town house.
If flea markets are more your thing, they hold one in the town hall on the first Wednesday of every month and on one Sunday a month. And the town hall also hosts a full-fledged antiques fair on the last Saturday of every month.
Where: Hungerford is just off the M4 about 67 miles west of London or 57 miles east of Bristol. It's handy for antiquing if you are planning a visit to Bath or heading out to see the prehistoric sites at Avebury and Silbury Hill.
By Train: Trains from London Paddington leave hourly, throughout the day for Hungerford. The trip takes just over an hour.
Food and Drink: As you might expect of a busy market town, there are plenty of little cafes and sandwich shops to pop into. Try the coffee shop at the Three Swans for really nice cakes in a historic hostelry. Eliane at 24 High Street, aims to cater for vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free and allergen-free diets as well as providing for confirmed and unrepentant carnivores. And they somehow manage to do this without being cranky about it. Plan on heading for lunch early here because a line forms outside.
Petworth House and Park , in the South Down's National Park near the South Downs Way , is one of England's top stately homes. It has the National Trust's most important collection of paintings, including 19 Turners. Many of the Turners were painted when the artist was resident in this West Sussex house under the patronage of the Earl of Egremont.
Visitors to this important house may not be aware that the adjacent town of Petworth is often named as one of England's top towns for antique hunters. It has at least 35 antique shops and 100 dealers, offering country furniture along with very high quality UK, English and Continental Antiques. Most of the shops are members of Petworth Antique and Decorative Arts , which publishes a useful street map of dealers on its website. Look, in particular, for Tudor Rose Antiques , housed in a 500-year-old, red brick building.
Where: West Sussex, about 50 miles South West of London on the A272, 5.5 miles west of Pulborough.
By Train: Trains from Waterloo Station in London call in at Haslemere and trains from London Victoria stop at Pulborough - either is about 20 minutes from Petworth. Local bus services from Worthing to Midhurst stop at Pulborough Station.
Food and Drink: Quick, casual dining in West Sussex, an affluent residential area, is always a bit of a challenge. There are a couple of Indian restaurants and a Chinese takeaway in the center of town as well as a small local cafe or two. The National Trust restaurant and coffee shop at Petworth House are open to the public until 5 p.m. without purchasing a ticket to the house and garden.
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