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Yorkshire and the Rise of Northern English Wine: How It Compares to the South England has rapidly become a global player in sparkling wine, with regions from Sussex to Kent and as far as the South West too (a nod to where I helped make wine at Calancombe Estate )earning recognition for their high-quality, Champagne-style wines - some of my favourites being Langhams (Dorset), Gusbourne, Artelium and even up to Oxfordshire (Hundred Hills). But outside of the crazy article that took socials by...

Nope I am not making it up. Whilst North Carolina might be more known for being the site of the first successful powered flight by the Wright Brothers, a hub for NASCAR, prestigious universities and the state in which a lot of TV series are filmed, it also has a budding wine scene too! It has wine and actually quite a bit of it. North Caroline covers 54,000 square miles of flat coastal plains and rolling hills of the Piedmont - recognise the name - yes it was named after the Piedmont area in...

FOCUS: Wines of Yorkshire Believe it or not, but not only is it God's country, BUT we also make wine too! Contrary to popular belief, it is not just a flash in the pan too - Yorkshire wine is very much here to stay and I'm here to rave about it too. There are actually around 16 commercial vineyards and combined, producing nearly 100,000 bottles of wine each year! There is even a Yorkshire Wine Trail for those who are looking to visit regions in Yorkshire and look to do more than just sup the...