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That's not a controversial claim. The controversial bit is that wine grapes cannot be grown in England today. They can grow and are grown today.
by DanBC 7y ago
That's not a controversial claim.
The controversial bit is that wine grapes cannot be grown in England today. They can grow and are grown today.
- simonh 7y agoAnd back into the 1980s at least, to my personal knowledge. I’ve had a grape vine growing on the side of my shed here in South London for the last 7 years.
- throwaway_pdp09 7y agoGrape vines have been grown since forever in the UK. They do fine. They are all over london. What's not easily doable is getting ripe fruit off them (fruit, yes, little green bullets, ripe... much harder). I don't know how it's done commercially currantly[0]. One planted in 1769 is still around. I assume it's under glass. Saw it when I was a kid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace) [0] thank you, thank you Edit: a bit more on that ancient and huge vine https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-great-vine-east-molesey-england https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-great-vine-east-mole...