Thursday 8 July 2021

Welsh Wine

Things are really changing, when a Welsh red wine wins a gold award (https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/07/07/retired-nurse-and-ex-postal-worker-scoop-prestigious-wine-award-for-welsh-vineyard/). The wine in question was a 2018 pinot noir from the White Castle Vineyard in Montgomery. It won gold in the Decanter World Wine Awards, in competition with wines from France and elsewhere. I suppose climate change will be credited but the Romans brought vines to Wales some years ago.

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