How City high-flyers have helped to fuel UK wine-growing boom

Annual production more than doubles as office workers quit to snap up vineyards or blocks of landThe UK’s booming wine-growing industry has been compared to “California in the 70s”, with annual production more than doubling to 12m bottles a year, according to a report.There has been a boom in the number of smaller growers driven by high-flying City workers taking early retirement to try something new, while well-known wine houses from elsewhere in Europe have snapped up English