English Wine Week:   Saturday 28th May - Sunday 5th June 2011

 

English Wine Week and English wines are making great strides and their popularity is gaining a serious following and fan base.   The latest news is that a vineyard is being planted in Windsor Great Park (with our own Pheasants Ridge Vineyard Consultant, Stephen Skelton M.W. advising on the project) so expect to be drinking The Royal's English sparkling wine at all future royal weddings and events.   The only snag is that it will take seven years before anyone drinks the first bottle.   That's how long it takes from planting to drinking ... definitely not a quick return on an investment!

 

Mind you, it is always English Wine Week at Gilbey's, no more so than at this time of year.   We are feeling rather pleased with ourselves so we thought we would have a small boast ...   One of our Eton visitors judged our own dry Pheasants Ridge Bacchus to be better than the Sancerre we list - quite a recommendation because this Sancerre is first rate too.   We are noticing that more and more of you are drinking Pheasants Ridge Brut in place of Champagne and many of you are trying a glass with your weekend Three-Tiered-Teas as well.   Is this is a match made in heaven?

 

English wines positively zing patriotically with summer hedgerow flavours.   Try matching these with our menus which go all-out to celebrate the arrival of the long-awaited spring and summer produce.   Forget root veg for a while and celebrate the flavours we have been deprived of for so long - Jersey Royals, English asparagus, the first English strawberries ...

 

Come and celebrate English Wine Week with us and if this is your first taste of English wine, we know it won't be your last!