English Wines - A joy or a Joke?

Despite winning a major award at the International Wine Challenge in London last month, Wine writer Malcolm Gluck and other experts were not impressed with this or indeed other English offerings at a recent tasting. Here's what the panel had to say. But, it appears that Malcolm Gluck has "long been the bane of English winemakers (see the full article here) Webmaster Bob Tarr asks us to remember that there will be good, mediocre and dreadful wines in any wine-producing country. In fact, I'm a week or so late with this posting I've just realised, as the 26th May-3rd June was "English Wine Week" ! However, the site is still there with lots of links to vineyards and independent wine merchants.

I for one think we should embrace our continuing and improving efforts and scoff the wine rather than scoff at it...