Summary
Simon Parkes reports from the London International Wine fair to discover the latest trends in the wine industry.
Simon meets wine producers from emerging wine producing countries such as India and Brazil to taste the wines that could soon be hitting the supermarket shelves in the UK. He also samples wines with a lower alcohol strength to discover if it is possible to produce wines that taste good without the high levels of alcohol.
The Food Programme also reports on two smaller festivals focussing on 'natural wine': wines made with a minimum of chemical input to find out whether natural wines are now becoming more established in the UK wine market.
Presenter: Simon Parkes Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts
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| 1:05.2 | hosted the London International Wine Fair. Around 15,000 growers, |
| 1:10.8 | winemakers, importers, vintners, Someliers, owners of restaurants and bars, descended |
| 1:16.6 | on the Excel Centre in East London to sample more than 20,000 wines and to find out which wines are creating a stir right now and what |
| 1:26.7 | will be the coughing trends of the future. The show offers producers from all around |
| 1:31.8 | the world a chance to break into not only the British but truly the international wine market. |
| 1:38.0 | I met James Murray, the organizer of the fair now in its ninth year. |
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