Money makers: An eccentric approach to wine-making

Seventeenth-century courtier Sir Kenelm Digby lent his name and eccentricity to the art of English wine-making.

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Grapes from Sussex, Hampshire and Kent are putting English wine on the map
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The man who invented the wine bottle as we know it today, 17th-century courtier Sir Kenelm Digby, lent more to Digby Fine English than his name, says Matthew Caines in The Daily Telegraph. Digby's famed eccentricity is reflected in Trevor Clough and Jason Humphries' approach to making sparkling wine. With English fizz more of an emerging category than its cousin in France, the co-founders had to secure the best British grapes.

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