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Wine from the United Kingdom

Index Wine from the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is a major consumer but only a very minor producer of wine, with English and Welsh wine sales combined accounting for just 1% of the domestic market. [1]

76 relations: Ancient Rome, Bacchus (grape), Berkshire, Bordeaux, Bordeaux wine, Cambridgeshire, Chalk, Chardonnay, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Derbyshire, Domesday Book, Dornfelder, Elizabeth II, Essex, Eucharist, Food miles, Fortified wine, Global warming, Globalization of wine, Hampshire, Hectare, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Henry VIII of England, Hock (wine), Homebrewing, House of Plantagenet, Huxelrebe, Irish wine, Italy, Kent, Lancashire, Leeds, Leicestershire, Liebfraumilch, Limestone, Lincolnshire, Local food, Madeira wine, Madeleine Angevine, Müller-Thurgau, Methuen Treaty, Normans, Ortega (grape), Phylloxera, Pinot Meunier, Pinot noir, Port wine, Portugal, Powdery mildew, Reichensteiner, ..., Roman Britain, Sacramental wine, Samuel Pepys, Schönburger, Seyval blanc, Sherry, Shetland, Shropshire, South Wales, Sparkling wine, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Sussex wine, Tenterden, United Kingdom, Unst, Vineyard, Viticulture, Walthamstow, William Batten, Wiltshire College, Winemaking, World War I, Wrotham, Yorkshire. Expand index (26 more) »

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Bacchus (grape)

The Bacchus is a white wine grape created by viticulturalist Peter Morio at the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding in the Palatinate in 1933.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Bordeaux wine

A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of southwest France, centred on the city of Bordeaux on the Garonne River, to the north of the city the Dordogne River joins the Garonne forming the broad estuary called the Gironde and covering the whole area of the Gironde department,with a total vineyard area of over 120,000 hectares, making it the largest wine growing area in France.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.

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Chardonnay

Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used in the production of white wine.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Dornfelder

Dornfelder is a dark-skinned variety of grape of German origin used for red wine.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper, among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others.

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Food miles

Food miles is a term which refers to the distance food is transported from the time of its production until it reaches the consumer.

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Fortified wine

Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, is added.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Globalization of wine

Globalization of wine is the expansion of wine varietals and brands across nations and to other continents, especially in modern times as a result of the advent of air travel and access to wine information via the internet.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Hock (wine)

Hock is a British term for German white wine; sometimes it refers to white wine from the Rhine region (specifically Riesling) and sometimes to all German white wine.

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Homebrewing

Homebrewing is the brewing of beer on a small scale for personal, non-commercial purposes.

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House of Plantagenet

The House of Plantagenet was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France.

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Huxelrebe

Huxelrebe is a white grape used for wine.

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Irish wine

Irish wine production takes place in a small number of vineyards and wine producers the majority of which lie in County Cork, Ireland, with Lusk, North County Dublin, also producing a wine named 'Lusca'.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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Liebfraumilch

Liebfraumilch or Liebfrauenmilch (in reference to the Virgin Mary) is a style of semi-sweet white German wine which may be produced, mostly for export, in the regions Rheinhessen, Palatinate, Rheingau and Nahe.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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Local food

Local food (local food movement or locavore) is a movement of people who prefer to eat foods which are grown or farmed relatively close to the places of sale and preparation.

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Madeira wine

Madeira is a fortified wine made in the Portuguese Madeira Islands, off the coast of Africa.

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Madeleine Angevine

Madeleine Angevine is a white wine grape from the Loire Valley in France that is also popular in Germany, KyrgyzstanO.

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Müller-Thurgau

Müller-Thurgau is a white grape variety (sp. Vitis vinifera) which was created by Hermann Müller from the Swiss Canton of Thurgau in 1882.

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Methuen Treaty

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between England and Portugal that was signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Ortega (grape)

Ortega is a grape variety used for white wine.

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Phylloxera

Grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Fitch 1855); family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs); originally described in France as Phylloxera vastatrix; equated to the previously described Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, Phylloxera vitifoliae; commonly just called phylloxera (from φύλλον, leaf, and ξηρός, dry) is a pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America.

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Pinot Meunier

Pinot Meunier,, also known as Meunier or Schwarzriesling, is a variety of black wine grape most noted for being one of the three main varieties used in the production of Champagne (the other two are the black variety Pinot noir and the white Chardonnay).

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Pinot noir

Pinot noir is a red wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera.

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Port wine

Port wine (also known as vinho do Porto,, Porto, and usually simply port) is a Portuguese fortified wine produced exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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Powdery mildew

Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants.

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Reichensteiner

Reichensteiner is a white wine grape that is mainly grown in Germany ((2008 fig.)), England ((2010 fig.)), (accessed 26 November 2012) and New Zealand ((2009 fig.)).

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.

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Sacramental wine

Sacramental wine, Communion wine or altar wine is wine obtained from grapes and intended for use in celebration of the Eucharist (referred to also as the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, among other names).

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

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Schönburger

Schönburger, also spelled Schoenburger, or Schonburger is a variety of grape, formally designated Geisenheim 15-114, a crossing developed at Geisenheim Institute for Grape Breeding in Germany, and released in 1979, of Pinot noir x (Chasselas x Muscat Hamburg).

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Seyval blanc

Seyval blanc (or Seyve-Villard hybrid number 5276winepros.com.au) is a hybrid wine grape variety used to make white wines.

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Sherry

Sherry (Jerez or) is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the city of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain.

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Shetland

Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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Sparkling wine

Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Sussex wine

Sussex wine is wine produced in the historic county of Sussex in England, a region divided for administrative purposes into East Sussex and West Sussex.

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Tenterden

Tenterden is a town with a large conservation area in the Ashford District of Kent, England.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Unst

Unst is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland.

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Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice.

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Viticulture

Viticulture (from the Latin word for vine) is the science, production, and study of grapes.

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Walthamstow

Walthamstow is the largest district of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in north-east London.

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William Batten

Sir William Batten (1600/1601 – c. 1667) was an English naval officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667.

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Wiltshire College

Wiltshire College is a tertiary college of education founded in 2002 by the merger of Chippenham Technical College, Lackham College and Trowbridge College.

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Winemaking

Winemaking or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Wrotham

Wrotham (pronounced) is a village on the Pilgrims' Way in Kent, at the foot of the North Downs.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_from_the_United_Kingdom

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