duncan schwab is pleased with how the grapes and the english wine industry have grown i think when we started i started thirty years ago and i think there were maybe five in yards in england is now maybe six hundred vineyards in england between all of us we produce maybe four five million bottles of wine but i visited a vineyard montpellier last year and that was producing four or five million bottles of wine on its own so so we're very small drop in the ocean but i like to think we're a very good drop in the oceans. there are many reasons why wine production is flourishing in england one is that you mon for english wines has increased and investors are now willing to plough money to binion's but it's mostly thanks to climate change which is improved growing conditions everything starts early so seasons are very much earlier than they used to be and then they go on the very mild still in october november doesn't get cold down here so we have a very long ripening period. but that's because here in devon near the head of the rescue very of the river dart they benefit greatly from the wa