A little bit of English in LA

Actually that isn't such a surprise. There are loads of Brits nonchalantly cruising up and down Hollywood Boulevard, looking for their big break.

But an English wine is hard to come by round those parts, so this item from an LA Weekly wine blog caught the eye:

A gentle drop of Sussex in the wilds of Southern California

 

"At Bar Covell I'd had advance word of an English wine they were pouring, and sought it out. England is now home to more than 400 vineyards, many of which are making sparkling wine in a climate that may be even more marginal than Champagne. General Manager Matthew Kaner was able to track down a few cases of the 2009 Cavendish bottling from Ridgeview Estate in Sussex County from an East Coast purveyor.

"England is now home to more than 400 vineyards, but hardly any of them are imported, and they're virtually unavailable now on the West Coast -- so this was a debut, and a treat.

"The marginal climate on the south coastal reaches of the British Isle guarantee a wine of bristling acidity, so much that it took a while for my mouth to adjust; but when it did, I had in my glass a wine with one of the more thrillingly racy textures I'd ever had, in any glass"

A man of decidely good taste, is drinks columnist Patrick Comiskey.