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An established English variety with floral & herbaceous in character
This is a zesty white from a top-quality estate in Suffolk. A really floral bouquet leads in to concentrated apple and lime flavours. Reminiscent of an aromatic Alsace white, this English stunner gives France a real run for its money!
Buying and restoring a mature vineyard was a great lifestyle change for us and an escape from the daily grind in the city. Are efforts were rewarded in 2010 with the Waitrose trophy for most outstanding rose.Linda Howard
Giffords Hall is located just south of Bury St Edmunds an area mentioned in Tacitus as being very popular in Roman times with Legionaries because of the quality of the wine.
In later centuries a third of the Tithe to Rome was paid in hogsheads of wine from Bury St Edmund.
The Howard family bought Giffords Hall as an already established vineyard 12 years ago.
The family concentrated on producing top quality fruit and became contract growers in order to learn as much as they could.
The ultimate aim, though, was to produce very high quality boutique wines themselves and in 2009, they put their first label onto a bottle.
Howards bought Giffords at just the time when real investment and marketing expertise were starting to enter the English wine industry attracting corresponding media attention.
Giffords Hall is happy to help other growers in East Anglia. Guy, as EAVA chair, represents the East Anglian region on the UKVA council.
Though a commercial producer, Giffords Hall is still very much an artisan family business and has many links with the local village community and the local pub.
Family children and their friends have always had holiday jobs through their school and university – running deliveries and manning a small winery shop and café.
The shop is inhabited by Emily the wine cat, who enjoys visitors and is always happy to help them with their teas and coffees, but isn't quite safe around the milk jugs.
