Homegrown Harvest: The UK Wineries Championing Community and Locality with Renegade Urban Winery’s Warwick Smith

Not just for wine buffs / oenophiles.


Instead of getting hung up on malbec and merlot, noses and
tannins, we’re raising a glass to the UK wineries shaking up the
English wine-making scene.


Join us as we speak to the innovative producers championing
community and fuelling our love for locavore labels and natural
tipples. We’re popping the cork on homegrown grapes and
spotlighting the next generation of UK wineries. 


Plus, we catch up with Renegade Urban Winery’s Founder Warwick
Smith who has ripped up the wine-making rule book and is
producing outstanding wines beneath a railway arch in Bethnal
Green. He shares his tips for picking a stellar bottle of plonk,
the urban wineries we should visit and an easy trick to look like
an oenophile. 


We’ll drink to that. 


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Warwick Smith’s epic list of urban wineries to check out:


Renegade Urban Winery, of course 


https://www.renegadelondonwine.com


Broc Cellars, California 


https://broccellars.com


Bow and Arrow, Oregon


https://www.bowandarrowwines.com


Donkey and Goat, California 


https://www.donkeyandgoat.com


Infinite Monkey Theorem, Colorado 


https://theinfinitemonkeytheorem.com


The Red Hook Winery, New York


https://www.redhookwinery.com


Noita Winery, Finland 


https://www.noitawinery.fi


And the UK wine producers he suggest paying a visit too:


Charlie Herring


http://www.charlieherring.com


Offbeat Wines


https://offbeatwines.co.uk


Langham Wine


https://langhamwine.co.uk


India and Fleur’s reccs for booze-fuelled weekends:


Wild Escapes at Fullerton Farm


https://wildescapes.com


Tillingham 


https://tillingham.com


Oxney Estate


https://oxneyestate.com


Forty Hall


https://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk


Warden Abbey Vineyard


https://wardenvineyard.org.uk



Articles to help you seek out the best vineyards:


https://suitcasemag.com/articles/uk-wine-industry


https://suitcasemag.com/articles/worlds-best-wine-destinations


https://suitcasemag.com/articles/underrated-wine-destinations


https://suitcasemag.com/articles/best-wine-hotels-europe