• The obvious title of the book should be ‘British Wine’, to cover wines made throughout the kingdom, but this term still refers to wines made from imported juice concentrate. They are usually fairly sweet and of pretty basic quality, so make sure you look for the terms English or Welsh wine on the label. The title of this book is ‘English Wine’ – although I have included a small section on Welsh wines. To say ‘English and Welsh’ wine several times a page through the book seemed to me to be just too cumbersome, so I have stuck to the simpler ‘English’ wine. I hope my Welsh friends will understand.
• The vineyards and wineries profiled from here onwards cover personal experiences and reflections from my years of visiting and tasting up and down the country. This is not a comprehensive handbook full of statistics nor a who’s who of top producers nor even a list of my favourites – I have tried to be representative and include the obvious ‘big’ producers as well as some ‘more boutique’ newcomers and my apologies to the many excellent producers I did not have space for in this book.
• Vineyard and winery profiles: Each entry includes a few essential details, to encourage you either to visit or to buy the wines and try for yourself. There has not been room to list all the many top quality tasting and food opportunities now on offer at many of these producers and the extraordinary variety of events and festivals available year round – I hope you will go and see for yourself.
• Symbols: sparkling and still wine produced.
• Oz recommends These are suggested wines to try and my favourites at the time of writing. They may not be their supposedly best wines but they are wines I have enjoyed and found interesting. 
refers to sparkling wine.