I love this. This is the way we we all end up !

Cheers David! 🥂

Thank you!

Thank you!

He had better have bought a case of it as I will be there this festive season!

Really? It wasn't a glowing review

It's Nyetimber. They've never made a bad one.

It's a hybrid grape, so isn't actually allowed in most European wine regions. It only really gets used here in the UK and I believe in the US a bit. I think it was originally bred to be grown in cooler climates but is kind of a relic now. I don't think many newly established vineyards here in the last, say, decade, have planted Seyval Blanc - they nearly all go for the classic Champagne grape varieties these days.

You're welcome - and I had no idea you were watching these videos! Perhaps this one just caught your eye because of the "Chiltern" in the title? I should probably have tried some of their beer as well while I was there.

@@EnglishSparklingWine I do watch them quite often. Just silently because I'm out of my depth! Do they do red wine there? My defective memory tells me that's what I got there, years ago. Probably the memory cheating, once again.

Thanks David - I spent the rest of the day safely indoors!

Haha not quite! We do exchange emails now and again though.

@@EnglishSparklingWine I'm hoping to drop by before Xmas to pick up some Cuvee Noella you keep talking about!

Cheers David! I don't think I ever wore hiking boots to the office but there was a preponderance of flat surfaces on which to put glasses, with only the slightly initial hurdle of having to shove off some irksome computing equipment first. At some point we moved to a new office which had a nice balcony with a good view of London and for a brief time there was much merriment at these end-of-the-working-week shindigs enjoying that outlook... but then our facilities people did a "health and safety assessment" and determined there was a risk somebody might not responsibly place their glass on an appropriate flat surface (or in their hiking boots), and it could end up falling off the balcony and causing an accident. So drinks on the balcony were banned. It was a terrible waste - all those sunsets left callously untoasted. That was probably a significant contributing factor for me finally deciding the corporate world really wasn't for me! I don't think I've ever been to Andover but it has a mystical quality for me as (more or less) the starting point of the A303.

@EnglishSparklingWine Hi John, Spoilsports or party poopers, down here they would be called "aguafiestas". You've got some catching up to do, those sunsets can't remain untoasted!! In the world of mumbo jumbo the sun may not rise again if you do not make amends ........ not that we believe in mumbo jumbo!! The mystical thing for me about Andover is that I took a job there in the first place. Thankfully it didn't last too long and perhaps in a round about way led to me moving out to Spain. Maybe there is some kind of ley line connecting this all up. Not that I believe in ley lines ..... or mumbo jumbo!! Have a great weekend!!

Thanks Ken! Yes i have heard they drink it in the Congo. I think I mostly drank it in the East Midlands.

Thank you! The pub channel has been occupying most of my attention the past week or two, but I am nothing if not fickle so it's quite possible next week I'll be spending more time on the wine channels!

I think that's the first time anyone has ever said anything positive about music I've included in one of my videos! I loved trip hop back in the day, and yet it was barely a genre was it...? If you asked the average person on the street they could at best name two trip hop bands (Portishead and Massive Attack) and it was only with some concerted digging that I discovered the band whose song featured here (Monk and Canatella). Anyway yes I'd love for there to be a trip hop resurgence!

@@EnglishSparklingWine I'd say a lot of people would probably recognise a Lamb record, even if they couldn't name Lamb. Zero Seven? Sneaker Pimps? A lot of them just get called 'electronic music' but I'd say there was a tangible element of Triphop there.

Cheers David! Yes it's interesting that some of these sparkling wines seem to produce more of a head than others - I'm sure there's a whole range of factors involved, not least how quickly I walked on the way to the park with the bottle being shaken about in my bag...

I completely agree! It really was an act of kindness on my part - I increasingly find entertaining guests at home to be hard work, and for the first half an hour I can sometimes be a bit frosty. This way as soon as I got back home I was jolly and welcoming!

I don;t often encounter spiders in my cellar (maybe it's just too dark to notice?) but frequently walk into them in my front garden in the morning!

@@EnglishSparklingWine I looked into my rear view mirror to see one living his best life on my forehead 🤢

Yes looking back at it now the colour did come across a bit yellow-ish!

You can buy individual bottles from Corney and Barrow. Also the Breaky Bottom website has a "limited allocation taster case" of three bottles including this one: www.breakybottom.co.uk/store/limited-allocation-tasting

Really great to hear - thank you!

I quite agree, the name is too much of a mouthful, but all previous attempts to come up with an alternative have floundered. We've had Britfizz, Britagne, Merrett (after Christopher Merrett) and some initialism a bit like South Africa's MCC which I forget now. None of them stuck! I think part of the problem is that it's such a broad region. Even the "English" in English sparkling doesn't capture it all because there are a few places making sparkling wine in Wales.

@@EnglishSparklingWine I say from here on in, we ask for glass of Tweedy! Happy days. 🥂🥂

Cheers Alan! I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this... Although if I'm honest I was starting to find it ever so slightly too rich by about the third glass. Fortunately my wife actually "helped me out" more than her usual one small glass so that suggests she liked it too.