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Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.

Welcome to our world, cooking to culture, politics to

pleasure. We hope you enjoy it. Welcome to the food program. I'm Susie Barry and as a wine expert, more and more of my time for the last decade has been spent following the rise of one of the most exciting

regions in the world of wine, the United Kingdom. Some have dubbed it Britfiz or even Brit pop,

but what most of us know as English or Welsh sparkling wine

has enjoyed over 25 years of success, winning international awards and being served

at the most prestigious of royal occasions and now we've had what's being

billed as the vintage of the century. This has been an exceptionally large year in terms of fruits.

Last year was a terrible year we had an early frost and then the summer was very wet and we picked in total about 12 or 13 tons.

We've already picked more than that now and we're not we're only barely halfway through the vigno

It's all gone incredibly well this year just in terms of you know the right weather at the at the right time

It's just of the right weather at the right time.

It's just colossal. The biggest harvest we'd ever had before this came in at 367 tons,

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