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Vines in a Cold Climate: The People Behind the English Wine Revolution

By Henry Jeffreys

Allen & Unwin £16.99

Sometime in the 1970s, two friends on a tour of the South Downs spot a sign for a vineyard and decide to pay it a visit.

They are greeted by a blue-blazered chap with a military moustache, who proudly shows them round the rudimentary winery in his garage.

Seated on the terrace of his house, their glasses charged, they listen as

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