Matthew Jukes Daily Mail Weekend
2007 Camel Valley, Cornwall Brut, Bodmin, Cornwall (£19.95, reduced to £17.95 for a case). Without a doubt the number one winery in the country, Cornwall Brut is the quintessential English sparkler, with masses of floral finesse and elegance. All of the wines from this estate are thoroughly delicious and I would urge you to visit the winery, too, if you can
29 May 2010
Jane Macquitty
Britain's best value sparkler is the luscious English hedgerow-scented 2007 Camel Valley Cornwall Brut , lovely, typical floral, light , lively and a bargain at £19.99. Or you could splash out a tenner more for the tasty strawberry-scented 2007 Camel Valley Pinot Noir Brut. Well done Bob and Sam'
15 May 2010
Fizz from Cornwall is best in the world
Fizz from Cornwall is best in the world
IF ASKED to name the world's best sparkling wine, you might have a stab at Bollinger. Or perhaps Pounds 160-a-bottle Cristal champagne, Victoria Beckham's favourite fizz.
27 Jan 2010
Sparkling future for English wine
Article from Foss's In Focus magazine
English wine is going from strength to strength with routine analysis playing
an important role in building the quality.
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8 Dec 2009
International Wine Challenge 2009 Results
International Wine Challenge Announce 2009 Results
12 May 2009
RESULTS: WORLD SPARKLING WINE CHAMIOPNSHIPS 2008 HELD IN VERONA
1. Bollinger Brut Special Cuvée
2. Camel valley Pinot Noir 2005
3. Deutz Brut Classic
2 May 2009
English winemaker uses high tech solutions to overcome a difficult 2008 vintage
Feature article for FOSS In Focus magazinerim@foss.dk Quality from a cool climateLeading English winemaker reveals thesecrets of success behind hisinternationally acclaimed vintages anddescribes how the timely application of newtechnology saved the 2008 production froman exceptionally bad growing season.As anyone who has taken a ‘sunshinebreak' in England will testify, there is nosuch thing as an average summer. And someone who knows this far better than any rain-soaked tourist is award-winning winemaker Sam Lindo of Camel Valley Wines in Cornwall...
20 Jan 2009
Japan welcomes top English wines
Bob Lindo of Camel Valley has just returned from a successful trip to Japan to promote his and other leading English wines (Nyetimber, Ridgeview, Bookers and Chapel Down) having been invited over for the 150th British/Japan Trade anniversary Fair in Hankyu Stores, Osaka.
Bob also conducted wine tastings of Camel Valley wines in Tokyo and in some wine bars in Osaka. He reported enthusiastically that the wines were well received and sold well - infact selling out of the original allocation in about 2 days.
13 Oct 2008
Munching through the credit crunch
On wine, tiny bit of good news. There was a big blind tasting of sparkling wines in Italy last month. There are a lot of these competitions, and some of them are fairly meaningless - you often see the result embossed on wine labels: "Medaille d'argent au concours du vin de Clermont-Ferrand, 1967" etc. But the thing about this one is that a British wine came in second place, only just behind Bollinger, one of the greatest names in champagne.
11 Oct 2008
Double gold for Camel Valley in Cornwall tourism awards
Camel Valley became the Cornwall Tourist Board Champions again last night for the third time in four years. In addition, Bob Lindo was stunned and delighted to receive a Gold Award for ‘Outstanding Services to Tourism’. Previous winners include Rick Stein and Tim Smit.
Said Bob: ‘ I’m very grateful to the Cornwall Community for awarding us these terrific honours and to my family and our team at Camel Valley for their fantastic support’.
Camel Valley have only just got over winning a Gold medal in the South West Tourism Awards.
9 Oct 2008
Royal visit for award winning Cornish vineyard
When the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visited the Duchy on Thursday 10th July, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall paid a visit to Camel Valley Vineyard.
The idea for the vineyard visit began when Cornishman David Brewer was Lord Mayor of London and arranged a Cornish produce event at Leadenhall Market, which of course the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall attended.
They both showed great interest in the Cornish wines Sam Lindo was showing, and he made everyone laugh when he gave them a leaflet about the vineyard and invited them to visit Camel Valley.
10 Jul 2008
Fortnum and Mason sparkles this summer with Camel Valley
Cornwall’s leading vineyard, Camel Valley, has developed Fortnum & Mason’s first ever own label English sparkling wine.
Camel Valley has produced just 3,000 bottles for the shelves of the world renowned food and drink emporium. This fresh yet vibrant fizz has elegant fruity aromas providing the perfect partner to this season’s British strawberries, light canapés and, indeed, any al fresco appetiser.
10 Jun 2008
From Camel Valley Vineyard - November 2007
With a smaller than average crop this year, grape picking was finished by early October. Another couple of weeks of winemaking meant harvest was over for another year. The warm and sunny autumn days ripened the grapes to perfection so that they were sweet and juicy and bursting with wonderful flavour. The art of the winemaker is to retain these flavours in the wine, and this is where keeping all the fermentations cool is so essential.
10 Nov 2007
From Camel Valley Vineyard - September 2007
The most frequently asked question this summer has been ‘has the bad weather affected the vineyard?’ The simple answer is Yes and No. The Seyval vines were just starting to flower when the seemingly incessant deluge began at the beginning of July, and have not been able to set many grapes this year, so yes, they’ve suffered. All the other varieties have coped better with the wet weather, and are carrying plenty of grapes. They are starting to ripen nicely with sugar levels rising rapidly, and we should start picking in September.
10 Sep 2007
From Camel Valley Vineyard - March 2007
Outside in the vineyards, we started removing the rabbit guards on the young vines to expose them to air. The rabbits seem to have a sixth sense and immediately started munching away at the unprotected vines, so we had to put them straight back on again. We don’t really know what to do for the best, as the guards provide a nice warm and moist home for slugs and snails which enjoy feasting on young shoots and leaves, but rabbits are probably the worst villains as leaves will regrow, whereas damage to the young vines themselves can really knock them back.
10 Mar 2007
From Camel Valley Vineyard - December 2006
A series of sharp frosts on consecutive nights in November plunged the vines into winter dormancy. The autumn hued leaves seemed to shrivel overnight, and the next strong winds blew them off the vines, enabling us to start winter pruning. I will have finished pruning my five thousand vines by early January, a good month earlier than usual.
10 Dec 2006
From Camel Valley Vineyard - November 2006
The grapes are now safely gathered in and the wines are fermenting away. This harvest has been very challenging, in both the vineyard and the winery. The crop was massive – about four times the usual amount, due to the combination of no late spring frosts followed by a long hot summer - and so we ordered extra new stainless steel tanks early on to accommodate it. By September vineyard owners up and down the country were trying to buy or rent extra tank space to no avail, but by then there was no spare capacity anywhere. It always pays to plan ahead!
10 Nov 2006
From Camel Valley Vineyard - August 2006
August saw an arrival and a departure at the vineyard. At the start of the month we welcomed our new Fendt tractor – double the size of the Kubota and twice as manoeuvrable, and specially designed for vineyard work. Having nearly quadrupled our acreage of vines in the last three years we felt it was time to get a second tractor to cope with the extra work.
10 Aug 2006
From Camel Valley Vineyard - May 2006
Camel Valley Vineyards 2005 Bacchus came out the top English Vineyard in the prestigious Decanter wine awards announced yesterday. They also simultaneously picked up 4 awards (including a Silver medal for their 2003 sparkling Pinot Noir ‘Cornwall’ Brut) in the world’s largest wine competition: the International Wine Challenge (IWC).
10 May 2006
From Camel Valley Vineyard - April 2006
The cool dry spring has been surprisingly good for us this year. Late frost is the greatest threat during spring for established vines, and although we all enjoy those lovely warm spring days with clear blue skies, this is exactly the sort of weather pattern where frost arrives in the early hours and kills off emerging buds and leaves.
10 Apr 2006
From Camel Valley Vineyard - March 2006
We finished our winter pruning by the end of February after an unusually cold winter. It was hard going during the short dark days, but there wasn't too much rain to hold us up this year. In addition, broken posts have been replaced in the vineyard and training wires repaired and tightened. In the winery the wines have finished fermenting and some have already been bottled, while others are tasted to work out which wines from which tank should be blended together. Our new leaflet has been designed and printed, and our new website is up and running.
10 Mar 2006
Cornish Wine's Fame Spreads Across World
The so-called supremacy of Continental wine is being challenged by the products of a Cornish vineyard which are gaining recognition in high places. Claire Watson meets the man behind the success story.
The belief that the best bottles of wine come from the Continent has been shattered by the leaps and bounds made by Westcountry vineyards in gaining international respect.
14 Jun 2005
RESULTS: WORLD SPARKLING WINE CHAMIOPNSHIPS 2008 HELD IN VERONA
1 BOLLINGER Francia Brut Special Cuvée 2 Camel valley U.K. Pinot Noir 2005
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