Great Britain and viticulture

Great Britain and viticulture

Great Britain:

Separated from the mainland and Britain, in particular after a huge earthquake there 200,000 million years ago.

It is separated from France by the Strait of Pas-de- Calais (31 km), the United Kingdom is an archipelago of about 245 000 km2 ( France : 549 000 km2 ), which includes Great Britain ( England, Scotland, Britain , English Great Britain is an island off the northwest coast of continental Europe. it represents the majority of the territory of the United Kingdom. in the political sense , this toponym means England, Wales and Scotland as well as most of the island territories contiguous to the exclusion of the Isle of Man and Channel Islands . Located at the junction of the Atlantic and the English Channel , it is separated from the Ireland by Sea of Irland and the continent by the English Channel .

Before being called " Great Britain " , this territory (or the most southern part ) simply called " Britain " ( Britannia in Latin) and was populated by Britons , a people Celtic language resulting from different migratory flows from the continent. From the late third century and more strongly from the sixth century, a part of the population migrates to Britain on the Continent.

The name confusion is installed between the island and mainland Britain Britain (current Britain ) are distinguished by speaking of Great Britain and Early Britain ( Britannia Britannia maior and minor) . In French , the term " Britain " became attached to the Breton peninsula , while the term " Britain " means the former British Isles . In English, the term Britain is commonly used to refer to the " Great Britain ", while Brittany refers to mainland Britain.

Viticulture in Great Britain

Viticulture in Britain was considered a joke, but today, it is good to start to get serious with global warming ( the passionate winemakers that are residents of Great Britain and the Welsh have achieved good results.

There was a real wine in Britain,there is a few hundred years but there remains little things now . Nevertheles , the British are generally very interested, even passionate , in everything about wine, and have been for centuries. Mention may be made Hambledon vineyard as the precursor of modern English viticulture in the 1950s .

Geographic and climatic zones of the UK are not the best for the cultivation of the vine ( very cold and wet) . However, it was suggested that , because of global warming, this changes in the future and that the culture of the vine becomes easier in the country

Nevertheless, some vineyards were created. In 2009, identifies 115 wineries producing wine and wine about 400 vineyards .Although most of the vineyards in southern England in the farms , there are some vineyards in Wales , and in nearly 41 Counties

Wiltshire, Sussex, Surrey, The Worcertershire the Somerse , Avon , Hampshire, Kent, The Berkshire , IsleOf Wight, The Oxfordshire , Cornwall, Herefordshire, Glamorgan , Tamworth , Essex , Norfolk, Dorset, the Cambridgestshire , Leicestershire, Devon, Oxon , the Northamptonshire , Wiltshire , Hertfordshire , Suffolk , Val of Glammorgan , Buckinghamshire , Staffordshire, the Stortford Herts, Yorkshire, the Carnmartheshire , the Stropshire , Leicester , Monmouthshire , Lancashire, the Midlands, the Cloucestershire , Isles of Scilly , the Worcestershire , Bedfordshire , Warwickshire and to Durham ( Renishaw Hall Vineyard ) .

In the British Isles , it is important that the vineyard is situated on a south-facing for maximum sun captured slope , the ground must be well drained naturally , and vines should not be susceptible to cold due to the harsh climate ( rot , spring frost and immaturity .) the wind must flow freely between the stocks

Geology of the British Isles offers, among other considerable diversity to the culture of the vine
The harvest is very late , never before late October.
Much interest and research on sparkling wines (easier to develop in this climate a great red wine tannins and ripe ) .
There are many German and French varieties:

Pinot Noir , Dunkelfelder Regent , Faberrebe , Bacchus, Reichensteiner , Madeleine Angevine , Auxerrois , Rondo, Seyval Blanc , Chardonnay, Riesling , Roter Elbing , Elbing , Optima , Pinot Blanc , Ehrenfelser , Ortega , Pinot Meunier, Müller -Thurgau , Huxelrebe , Phoenix, Kernling Triomphe d'Alsace , Merlot, Scheurebe , Schönburger , Cascade and Leon Millot.