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Wickham Vineyards Limited Release Medium White 2009

16 September 2011
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Wickham Vineyard is situated in Hampshire, just a matter of miles north of the M27 and the South Hants Conurbation of Portsmouth, Southampton and everything inbetween. An unlikely setting it may sound for a vineyard, but the 18 acres of vines are – if the pictures are to be believed: I’ve yet to visit, myself – as [...]

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Three Cows White 2009

10 August 2011
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Perhaps it’s the sheer scarcity of English wines that makes them seem like a novelty item. I’ve had very little (if any) bad English wine over the years, but I so rarely seek it out; when I try one as fine as the New Forest’s own Three Cows, it does make me wonder why exactly [...]

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Frazier’s Wine Merchants

4 April 2011
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In an age when the bulk of the wine trade seems to be dominated by supermarket giants like ASDA and Tesco, and the bigger off-license-style wine vendors like Oddbins and Threshers seem to be falling by the wayside, it’s an increasingly rare delight to come across an independent retailer in the UK – particularly a [...]

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