Don't vint, distill!

As a Kentuckian and proud advocate of local whiskies, I say cultivate the "corns" and make do with what you're blessed with...barrel it, pour in drams and toast your respective climate.

Bruce, Kentucky, USA

And where is the delight in being able to make wine in your own country about anyway? This thing of wanting to be more "Continental Cafe Culture Chic" on the one hand and yet stoutly British through and through. I know people who make wine locally here. It's no more romantic than potatoes, honestly.

Chris Beach, Asturias, Spain

Growing grapes in England is not the problem. Neither is growing cannabis.

Government interference via tax,duty and the law, is.

michael murphy, brightlingsea, england

That's what I miss about Britain ... the irrepressible, blind optimism :-)

Lee, Burgundy, France

Hadrian grew grapes for wine on Hadrian's wall.

We might be able to do the same again if the global warming nerds are right, I say, Bring it on.

Jim, Bicknoller,

Your correspondent "WPO of Warsaw" asks one should attempt winemaking in England. George Orwell provided the answer sixty years ago when he wrote that we were by default simply a cold wet island where people lived on a diet of herrings and potatoes. Plant more vines, I say.

John Stobart, Oakham, Rutland, UK

May a person ask why ?

wpo, warsaw, ny