Grape Britannia, Chesterton Road’s award-winning English and Welsh wine specialist, celebrates its fifth birthday this week. Owner Matt Hodgson says the business has been boosted by the quality of wines coming through. According to the most recent figures released by Wine GB, the national association for the English and Welsh wine industry, the number of hectares planted with vines in Great Britain has grown by a staggering 74% in 5 years, with almost 4,000 hectares under vine. There are now an impressive 943 commercial vineyards in England and Wales, with 2023’s bumper yields leading to an es…