{"id":7528,"date":"2013-06-21T23:05:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T23:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=7528"},"modified":"2013-06-21T23:05:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T23:05:35","slug":"capturing-englishness-in-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/england\/capturing-englishness-in-wine","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Englishness, in wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have just spent a lovely evening playing cricket in Marble Hill Park, Twickenham, with a great bunch of guys.<\/p>\n

There is something so English about cricket. Pass through a village on a weekend afternoon, and if it has a green, there’ll invariably be a cricket match in progress. It’s a slow, time-consuming game. It’s a team game, but it is based around individual performances. It is also\u00a0a dramatic game: if you are out, that’s it. You only get one chance.<\/p>\n

It is played with a hard ball, which makes it painful at times, and occasionally dangerous. But it is also played in a very good spirit, with a culture of respect for the opposition (we clap opposing batsmen to the crease). Cricket embodies something of Englishness.<\/p>\n

So when it comes to English wines, be they still or sparkling, is there some way that we can capture Englishness in the wine? Can we transmit a sense of place, a local identity, to the wines? This is crucial, I reckon, to making English wines desirable in their own right. No one wants a copy. Let’s see if we can tell a story through our wines. People respond to stories, and if our wines can carry the story of Englishness, they will be more successful for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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