UK drinkers favour English sparkling over Champagne, says report (UK)

Regular consumers of sparkling wine in the UK would rather drink English sparkling wine than Champagne, says a new report. The nation’s domestic bubbly is enjoying ‘phenomenal’ growth and rapidly entering the mainstream, according to the new figures, which suggest that most sparkling wine consumers in the UK have tried it at least once. Meanwhile, the total market for sparkling wine in the UK has grown by two-thirds in only four years, bucking the trend of economic gloom and slowing growth in the still wine category, reports Decanter.