Best of English: Meet the Winemaker dinners 2012

On Saturday I posted a blog about Plumpton College’s appeal for donations for  the UK’s first dedicated Viticulture and Oenology Research Centre (click here to find out more).

Sticking with the English wine theme, if you fancy meeting some of English wines’ movers and shakers, London wine bar and bistro Artisan & Vine and DrinkBritain.com are teaming up again to host another series of Best of English, Meet the Winemaker dinners. 

This summer I attended a Camel Valley dinner with Sam Lindo (pictured, with DrinkBritain’s Susanna Forbes and Artisan & Vine’s Kathryn O’Mara), who’d just been crowned Winemaker of the Year in the English & Welsh Wine of the Year Competition.  It was a great night and I learned a good deal about making wine in England.

Lindo is back again next year – here’s the full schedule for 2012:

14 March: Sam Linter, winemaker, Bolney Wine Estate, Sussex

30 May: Julian Barnes, winemaker, Biddenden Vineyards, Kent

27 June: Sam Lindo, winemaker, Camel Valley Vineyards, Cornwall

15 August: Andrew Weeber, founder, & Ulrich Hoffmann, consultant winemaker, Gusbourne, Kent

12 September: Charlie Holland, winemaker, RidgeView Estate, Sussex

Tickets cost £49 for four courses and five wines and are available online at Artisan & Vine.  For further information on all the wineries, check out DrinkBritain.com.