British wine is a fickle business. One day, you’re winning industry awards and leaving Champagne in the dust . The next, you’re backing out of a £32 million winery because you’ve overestimated demand.

Any business at the mercy of British weather will relate to the highs and lows that follow a good or bad year, but this volatility belies an overarching trend. If 2024 was a poor outing for the English grape, the 2025 harvest has been a triumph. Climate modelling suggests this is more than swings and roundabouts. With reliably warmer summers projected for the coming decades, we are witnessing a slow but stubborn arc of progress.

Those of us who didn’t plant a vineyard 20 years ago are now scrambling to find the next pot of gold. Many claim this might be olive oil, currently being harveste

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