A Load of Corkers ; According to These Six Winemakers, the Bubble's Burst for Champagne. Now It's Southern England That Makes the Best Sparkling Wine in the World. Cheers, Says Alistair Duncan

Evening Standard - London › September 05, 2005

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According to these six winemakers, the bubble's burst for Champagne.

Now it's southern England that makes the best sparkling wine in the world.

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A Load of Corkers ; According to These Six Winemakers, the Bubble's Burst for Champagne. Now It's Southern England That Makes the Best Sparkling Wine in the World. Cheers, Says Alistair Duncan

Cheers, says Alistair Duncan

Sam Linter, 37 Winemaker at Bookers Vineyard Lives In Angmering, West Sussex, with husband Graham, 41, and their two children, Charlotte, 14, and Matthew, ten.

Growth 'I grew up on our vineyard from the age of four and a half,' says Sam, the daughter of a commodity trader who decided to set up his own Sussex vineyard in 1972. Sam studied at Plumpton College (the only course in England that teaches viticulture and oenology), before joining the fami...

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