English sparkling wine is sparkling wine from England, typically produced to the traditional method and mostly using the same varieties of grapes as used in Champagne – Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Pinot Meunier. English sparkling wine producers often employ Champagne terminology to describe the styles of their wine, such as "Classic Cuvée", "Blanc de Blancs" or "Demi-Sec".
Breaky Bottom Vineyard near Lewes, a producer of English sparkling wine
Prestige cuvées from three English sparkling wine producers: Sugrue South Downs, Nyetimber and Chapel Down.
Bottles of Ridgeview and Nyetimber, English sparkling wines produced in Sussex.
Christopher Merret FRS, FRCP, also spelt Merrett, was an English physician and scientist. He was the first to document the deliberate addition of sugar for the production of sparkling wine, and produced the first lists of British birds and butterflies.
Christopher Merret
Title page of Merrett's Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, 1666