Tom Surgey on redifining English sparkling wine with Patience

English sparkling wine is about to push over the £200 price barrier with the launch next week of Patience a new self-dubbed “ultra-premium” English sparkling wine that Squerryes , the Kent wine producer, says is 300 years and 10 generations in the making. Here English wine consultant, Tom Surgey, explains what the experience of bringing what he believes is a “boundary pushing” English sparkling wine to market has taught him about the English wine category and the ultra-premium opportunity it now offers the UK wine market.