English Regional

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

English Regional in United Kingdom

The boundary for English Regional is not on Vinous yet. It is added by the geography step of the data pipeline.

Showing every colour The colour filter changes the rules and grapes. Climate, vintages and soils describe the vineyards, so they stay the same.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled English Regional must meet.

2 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Max wine hl/ha	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	Actual alc. min. %	After enrichment max. % alc.	Acidity min. g/l	On lees min. months
English Regional Wine	100	6	8.5	15	4	–
English Regional Quality Sparkling Wine	100	6	10	–	4	9

From the official production rules (national product specification, via the EU register). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

Allowed

Enrichment (chaptalisation)

02 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, Article 93 (definitions of designation of origin and geographical indication) and Articles 92-123 · European Union · EU law
Product specification: English Regional (ENGLISH Regional Wine and QSW PGI - Specification.doc) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document

Still to check (3)

Boundary not captured yet (PGIs are not in the Eurac boundary data).
From the specification: Specification (2011) covering still wine and quality sparkling wine; the still wine is not split by colour. Enrichment may add at most 3 % vol (3.5 % in exceptional years) and may not raise total strength above 11.5 % for white and 12 % for red and rosé still wine; sweetening may add up to 4 % vol within the 15 % maximum. Still wine: acidification not allowed (except exceptional years), de-acidification of wine up to 1 g/l. Sparkling: cuvée total strength at least 9 % vol, sweetening of cuvées prohibited, acidification up to 1.5 g/l, at least 3.5 bar. Varieties (long list, hybrids included) start Acolon, Albalonga, Albariño, Arbane, Auxerrois, Bacchus... including Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Seyval Blanc and Solaris.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.