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Wine list wonders - Great restaurants with great wine
The Good Food Guide 2020 features more than 100 restaurants with notable wine choices – here’s our pick of the bunch
The Good Food Guide 2020 features more than 100 restaurants with notable wine choices – here’s our pick of the bunch
Fifteen years ago, nobody was drinking orange wine, right? Most of us had never heard of it, tasted it, and none of us had seen it occupy its own category on a wine list. Today, if you admit you’ve never tasted a ‘skin contact’ wine – as they’re also known – you might be tarred and feathered by your savvier pals and deemed to be a vinous ingénue for not keeping up with the cool kids.
From a barge in Hackney Wick to a terrace on an East Sussex vineyard and a charming wine bar in Inverness, here are the best restaurants and bars to make the most of a sun-baked September.
From soggy early plantings in the early 1950s to a run of outstanding recent vintages, the Guide’s wine expert Stuart Walton takes a deep dive into the story of English wine and selects five bottles to enjoy now.
For those not in the know, a wine list can serve up some bemusing terminology, we help you decode some of the most common terms