Interesting, Allan - the Sussex white (and sparkling) wines are getting a great reputation at the moment, and have won several international medals. I'm only a partial fan. My son - who's doing a wine degree at the moment - gets me excellent wines at 20% discount. He works for a local wine merchant in his spare time from uni. :-)

I used to shun French wines, but the last few years have seen a huge resurgence in French stuff. England will never, IMO, produce reds to match Europe or the New World vintages.

How's that for a nice bit of thread drift, eh?