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Viticulture in England
http://www.wroxetervineyard.co.uk/viticulture.shtml
Much of the history of English wine is obscure but one thing is certain - England has been producing wine for a very long time. The 1987 discovery by archaeologists in Dorset of a `prehistoric` cultivated grape pip among other domestic refuse has led some to wonder if Neolithic man grew vines here. Much can only be conjecture, but it is generally accepted that the ROMANS introduced viticulture to Britannia. There were likely to have been vineyards attached to the villas scattered across what are now England's southern counties. The great vineyards along the Rhine are better known today than those of England but, interestingly enough, it is most likely that vines were growing in Sussex 700 years before they were planted in, say, the Rheingau, Germany's prime wine growing region... Wroxeter Roman Vineyard, SHREWSBURY, Shropshire, is situated at the Wroxeter Roman City, the Roman name being Uriconium, where no doubt the Romans grew vines for wine nearly 2000 years previously.
