Catalonia, and specifically the area known as the Penedès just West of Barcelona, is home to one of the world's great sparkling wine cultures. Catalan growers, inspired by visitors from...
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After an initial foray into the wine business, Tom decided to pursue a more reliable, respectable trade; he became a professional jazz musician. Wine was never far behind, though, and he founded the website Six Atmospheres after the sparkling wine bug started biting especially hard. Rather than taking a purely regional focus, Tom follows the craft of sparkling wine wherever it leads. His publication ‘English Sparkling Wine 2020’ remains one of the widest independent wine-by-wine surveys to date, with future updates planned. Tom manages a small non-commercial vineyard in Kent (having once come dangerously close to being left in charge of a commercial one), and maintains an unhealthy interest in the inner workings of grape vines and wineries. He continues his career as a musician whilst trying to get better at reading, writing and drinking.
Articles by Tom Hewson
Cultural Elevation
by Tom HewsonDo It The Hard Way
by Tom HewsonBurrowing
by Tom Hewson2022-2023 Champagne Special Report
£20.00Champagne is frequently the subject of coffee-table books and articles. Superficially, it can seem as glossy and unchanging as its adulation. But the myth of the ‘consistent blend’ is crumbling:...
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£15.00English wine is changing at a bewildering pace. Spurred on by the sparkling wine successes of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the fields of Southern England have seen plantings...
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by Tom HewsonAn Easy Ride?
by Tom HewsonThe Colours Of Infinity
by Tom HewsonDreamland
by Tom HewsonEngland 2021 Special Report
£10.00English wine is changing at a bewildering pace. Spurred on by the sparkling wine successes of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the fields of Southern England have seen plantings...
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