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Frank Ward

Frank Ward is an English-born wine taster and consultant established in the UK. He has written numerous articles on wine and food in Sweden, USA (Connoisseur New York) and the UK (The European), and is author of two books on the restaurant scene in Sweden.
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A Taster’s Tour of Three Kent Vineyards

Posted by Frank Ward on August 31, 2017

August 2017. Tasting trips usually entail long flights to vineyards in other lands, so it was pure luxury when, a day or so ago, I climbed into a friend’s car and was among the vines only 40 minutes after leaving home. The wineries were all English; and all in Kent. Kent can boast quite a few vineyards. And since I live in Kent, they’re almost literally on my doorstep. English wine was just a cottage industry a decade or two ago. In the interim it’s grown considerably. Today, some 130 estates on 2,000 hectares produce well over 6 million bottles annually. [….]

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This entry was posted on August 31, 2017 at 9:12 am and is filed under English Wine, Other Countries. Tagged: Andrew Weeber, Appledore, Bacchus, Biddenden Wine Estate, Chapel Down, Charlie Holland, English Wine, Gavin Kean, Gusbourne, Julian Barnes, Kent, Kit's Coty, Lenz Moser, Ortega, Sparkling wine, Stephen Skelton M.W., Tenterden. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

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