Not by bread alone
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A brief history of wine making in Britain for the past 1,600 years attributes the minor role of this industry to: Britain's loss of control over certain great wine making regions such as Aquitaine and Bordeaux, and Henry the Eighth's dissolution of monasteries in 1536 (most wine was made by monks in that time period). Currently, most English wine is produced as one of several crops by its growers and wine production costs are high: planting vineyards averages 5,000 pounds sterling per acre. In addition, annual production for an average UK vineyard is 10,000 bottles, much smaller in scale than their continental counterparts. Although British climate and soils have heretofore limited wine producers to the white grapes of German extraction, some experimentation with growing red grapes in Britain is underway.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 1986
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Kenneth McAlpine: vigneron
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Kenneth McAlpine owns Great Britain's largest (and most profitable) wine making firm, based in Lamberhurst, his family home of 60 acres on the Kent and Sussex borders, southeast of Tunbridge Wells. McAlpine grows Seyval Blanc, Muller Thurgau, and Madeleine Angevine grapes, and promotes his wines with tourist attractions attached to the vineyard (currently, he is considering the construction of a miniature railroad to bring people to the vineyard). McAlpine advises against running a vineyard as a sole means of support in Britain.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 1986
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We are the greatest
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The international editor of Wine magazine (a British publication) asked wine experts from around the world to taste test 38 white wines blindly, and discovered that of the ten best white wines selected by this group, six were British. Most of Great Britain's 250 wine makers do not make their wines from freshly picked grapes, using various forms of grape juice concentrate as their base. Sussex and Kent are the biggest wine-making regions in Britain, and the average vineyard in Great Britain is 15 acres.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 1986
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