England’s Côte d’Or: Inside the Crouch Valley Still Wine Revolution

And its potential for producing great still wines, too, is now being realized. One high-profile investor from overseas has been California’s Jackson Family Wines (JFW), maker of Kendall-Jackson and owner of more than 40 wineries round the world, which began quietly planting vines in Essex in the east of England, in 2024. 

The area they homed in on was the Crouch Valley, an expansive landscape of marshland and arable fields, that’s now establishing itself as…