The only wine is Essex! Forget fake tans and TOWIE, the county is now producing stellar vino, says Essex girl HELENA NICKLIN

Essex and fine wine are not usually words you’ll see together in a sentence.

But as a female wine professional who grew up in Essex during the 80s and 90s, my formative years punctuated by misogynistic jokes about girls from my part of the world, nothing’s more pleasing than being able to say this much-maligned county is currently the most exciting region for fine wine on the planet. The only way is Essex. Fact.

It’s no secret that England is a serious player in the wine industry nowadays, thanks to the posh sparkling wines from the Champagne-alike soils of Kent, Hampshire, Sussex

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