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14 hours agoLow-Intervention English Wine Made in Bethnal Green | Neighbourhood Watch
Numbers Wine produces low-intervention English wine from local grapes in a former umbrella factory in East London.
My grandfather Peter Hall, who has died aged 82, was one of England's best known winegrowers. The writer Andrew Jefford described him as the father of the contemporary English wine scene a significant feat for anyone, let alone a man who taught himself winemaking from a paperback, and whose self-planted vineyard totalled six acres. Breaky Bottom Vineyard, near Lewes, in East Sussex, was Peter's passion. For five decades he worked meticulously on it: tending the vines by hand, labelling each bottle.