I recently borrowed this whole series from Lovefilm and enjoyed it. Except, that is, Oz going on and on about French wine makers coming to the south of England, buying up acres of land to grow grapes, and making the most fabulous champagne style wines etc (or whatever other pretentious descriptions he came out with). Wasn't that all covered in the very first series, albeit in France?
Anyway, other than that, I am very disappointed that there was absolutely NO mention whatsoever of fruit wines. Fruit (or Country) wines have been made in England for many, many years, as grapes weren't grown. So, wine was made with whatever ingredients could be found or scrounged. There are numerous good fruit wine producers in the UK from Cairn 'o' Mohr in Scotland, to the Lurgashall Winery in Sussex.
Another disappointment was the lack of homebrewers. They did pop in on a lady that brews beer in her garage, but she produced gallons of the stuff each week and it was sold in pubs local to her. That's nice to see, but if they'd edited out all the boring French wine nonsense, they could have found room to fit in a homebrewer that makes beer in his or her shed like me, and many others like me, for the fun of it.
I believe the programme would have been a fairer representation of Britain's ability to produce it's own quality drinks, rather than aspiring to be something it's not (and never will be).
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