Boutique lifestyle brand Hotel du Vin is delighted to announce that it is partnering the inaugural UK Wine Awards.
English and Welsh wine has enjoyed increasing popularity in recent years. Hotel du Vin has seen growing demand for UK wines across its seventeen hotels, and is delighted to be stocking an ever increasing variety of British wines. It’s a trend that is reflected across the industry, with a record-breaking one million vines set to be planted this year.
In recognition of this, Hotel du Vin will be joining forces with the UK wine industry itself, as well as Country Life and Waitrose, to celebrate the unbelievable achievements of UK wine producers.
The Awards will be led by a glittering line up of wine experts including Susie Barrie MW (leading wine writer and one of the wine experts on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen), wine luminary Oz Clarke and leading sommelier and wine writer Hamish Anderson.
Producers from all around the country will be pitched against one another and judged over two days, before the ‘Supreme Champion’ of the UK Wine Awards is announced on 31st May.
The new awards come at a pivotal moment for English and Welsh wines:
- One million vines are set to be planted in the UK this year
- In the last ten years the acreage planted with grapevines has grown by an astonishing 135%
- Since 2000 acreage has nearly tripled
- This means wine production is one of the fastest growing agricultural sectors in the UK
- This year’s vine planting will yield another two million bottles of mainly sparkling wine, adding an estimated £50m to the industry
- These vines will fill an estimated 625 acres – the equivalent of planting up the whole of London’s Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens combined
Nick Halliday, Chief Operating Officer at Hotel du Vin said, “Hotel du Vin prides itself on its love for wine and we’re incredibly passionate about sourcing new wines and recognising the quality that is found within the UK wine industry. We are delighted to be supporting this exciting and prestigious event in its search to find the UK’s best wines.”