There are over 500 vineyards in the UK – where’s the wine?
There are around 500 vineyards in England and Wales alone, covering an area of four and a half thousand acres. And those are figures that Liz Truss, the Environment Secretary, wants to see growing. Earlier this month she called the first ever wine 'roundtable' bringing together producers and leading wine industry representatives to celebrate English and Welsh wine. She told them she wants to see a tenfold increase in UK wine exports by 2020 - in just four years. Caz Graham talks to Sam Lindo, a vintner at Camel Valley Wines in Cornwall and Chairman of UKVA, the United Kingdom Vineyards Association, about whether it's realistic to achieve such an increase in exports.
First broadcast on Farming Today, 1 April 2016.
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