Sussex Wine List

22/02/2021

Not posted anything for a good while, but for anyone with a taste for our Sussex sparklers, this note of mine is hopefully useful info...

ndsperry wrote: (89 points) I met the winemaker, Peter Hall, back in 2014 and a wonderful character he is. I like the way his Cuvées are named after people special to him. My youngest daughter was very taken with his 2007 Cuvée Francine... I hadn't seen any of his wine available ...

24/07/2015

There are many lovely things about Sussex: fairy-tale castles; stunning cricket grounds; sheer, beautiful cliffs and coastlines. But in my view, one the very loveliest, is the knowledge that wherever you are - East or West of this once-enormous county - you are never far away from a vineyard. Sadly (due to the length of the journeys required, and with small children inevitably in tow) I have not yet been able to get to as many in the West as our native East, but last weekend, combined with a family camping trip in the new-to-us campervan, we managed to squeeze in a corker. [ 549 more words. ]

http://sussexwinelist.co.uk/2015/07/24/bowled-over-by-bolney

There are many lovely things about Sussex: fairy-tale castles; stunning cricket grounds; sheer, beautiful cliffs and coastlines.  But in my view, one the very loveliest, is the knowledge that where...

02/01/2012

It's what it says on the tin...

Nick and I might not follow the same political persuasion, but what we do share is our passion for wine, and more specifically, our fondness for English Wine. I have for many years been interest...

20/12/2011

Go on. You know you want to...

I was unusually organised and had even sorted out a discount for readers of the Resident Wine Guru column before I found out from the paper that their last edition of the year ran on the 15th! A...

12/12/2011

I was proud of the headline...

On Wednesday I got a chance to go along to the launch event of The Essential Wine School at Sussex Coast College. This is the baby of Ken Maitland and Ted Bacon, two experienced hands when it co...

23/11/2011

Here is this week's offering for The Resident...

30/10/2011

In case it's still on special..!

It’s time to review a white wine again and, back at Asda in Silverhill for a look around, I was tempted by the Greener Planet Wine Co. Marsanne Chardonnay blend (reduced by three quid down to a t...

09/10/2011

Truly memorable...

Wonderful day had on Thursday! Irma from Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard rang early in the week to see if I was available to come and help with the harvest and I jumped at the chance. Early start...

26/09/2011

We had ours with bought profiteroles...

It was nice to meet Pam, from Battle Wine Estate, at the Hastings Seafood & Wine Festival last weekend. And it was good, this week, to have an excuse to open her Saxon Dessert, because she wa...

26/09/2011

Quality neighbour to have...

I was contacted a week or two ago by someone keen to know if there is a wine club, local to us, that she could join her wine-loving husband up to, for his birthday. [There isn't really a mutual...

26/09/2011

Last week's offering...

I realised over the past week that I haven’t yet reviewed anything for you committed Rosé drinkers. And as the weather has been on the turn, and the pinks are always better in the warmer weat...

18/09/2011

One to watch...

As I get to learn a bit more about the wine industry - both here and abroad - I sense that it is one in which there may be a few egos knocking about. Which makes it all the more enjoyable to m...