Tweedy - never feel the need to apologize for your presentations - it's fun watching you being you in beautiful locations and insight into the localities you visit. Lewes was another interesting trip, thanks for taking us with you!
Beer, pub, cheese, wine, hillfort, history, hills and chips; your tweediest adventure to date. This is just what I want for my UA-cam premium payments!
“Cheese and wine tasting with Tweedy. A new high or a new low?” Definitely a HIGH. Where better than to “review” the cheese and wine than on the Downs near to where they are produced. Another wonderfully eccentric and photogenic video. Thank you John. 👏👏👍😀🍾🥂🧈🥖
Only on Tweedy Outdoors! An ice bucket on an Iron Age hill fort in Sussex. The mainstream media really don’t stand a chance. You have definitely motivated me to explore the South Downs this year. It does look appealing. I remember that avalanche story from my childhood and have a northern England tale of snow-based disaster to tell at some stage this year. Something to look forward to!
Once again perhaps Mel Brooks' "This is nuts!" springs to mind? The weather was a bit mixed on this outing, and I didn't really venture very far out of Lewes, but at its best the South Downs can be breathtaking!
As others have mentioned here, it is actually very enjoyable content! Giving an example of a wonderful way of enjoying life and the finer things in it!
Thank you! I worry some of my videos sometimes veer a little bit into Instagrammy show-off territory now and again, but hopefully there's enough of me getting rained on / freezing on top of a hill / tramping through mud lakes / being attacked by swarms of insects to keep it grounded!
Thanks Nigel! I agree, Lewes is a beautiful town, with so much going for it in terms of food, drink, culture, surrounding countryside - the list goes on. Quite understandably I sometimes get the sense some of the locals don't particularly want idiots like me visiting from London!
Loved this despite your self deprecation. Beautiful scenery, great cheese recommendations. We have been grape picking at Bluestone since they started. I always get to drive as there is complementary fizz :-) Keep up the great work.
Great to hear Terry! The name sounds a bit silly but I honestly think Breaky Bottom can rival some of the best Champagnes. I wish English sparkling wine was all a bit cheaper - I think everything here in the UK is a struggle for the producers financially in terms of scale and labour costs... But if you compare it to Champagne it's a relative bargain, considering the quality and the added resonance of the way it captures the English countryside. Probably a bit of a niche market but I love it!
I don't know much about English wine but I noticed the wonderful colour which was apparent in the video. This suggests something about it's quality. Now I'm intrigued and will seek it out.
I wish it was a bit cheaper, but the good stuff from England is made in Champagne style so they've taken their pricing cues from there. In my opinion some of the best English sparkling wines (e.g. the Breaky Bottom featured here) are significantly better than Champagne in a similar price range, but that's of course very subjective and depends what you're looking for in a wine! I think what English sparkling does really well is acidity / freshness / fruitiness. I also love that you get these very English countryside notes - orchard and hedgerow fruit - despite the fact the grapes are typically the traditional French Champagne grapes (Pinot Noir / Chardonnay). Also I think one of the strengths of the English wine industry is its creativity - it's kind of the Wild West of the wine world at the moment. Traditional wine regions like Champagne are heavily regulated and producers have a lot more restrictions placed on them about how they make their wine. Everything from the grape varieties they're allowed to use, to how they prune their vines, to the amount of grapes they're allowed to harvest. Obviously there's some sense in that for maintaining the baseline of quality across the region but it also stifles innovation. I've had a lot of really nice surprises in English sparkling wines in terms of grape varieties and production methods which would have never have been allowed to happen in Champagne!
You had the "Blessing of the flies" as you embarked upon this mission John, a rather mixed blessing I might add. 05:52 No John, it's not a cup of tea ! :) I quite fancy some cheese and wine now but will have to make do with some cider and cheddar as thats whats in the fridge!
Fortunately the flies only lurked down in the valleys on that walk, I think the hilltops were too breezey for them. It doesn't come up very often on the channel but I love cider! ...and although I like to try different types of cheese from time to time if I had to pick just one for the desert island it's going to be cheddar, no contest!
A cold sparkling white with fish & chips has always been our favourite for a Friday night. Popular with many other people also, we have a local area called fish & chip hill, yes like Tweedy some people do take an ice bucket. Next time I will be sure to take some cheddar.
Once again, the scenery in your video is absolutely stunning. I didn’t know you had a sparkling wine channel until today - have subbed to that also 👍🏻 cheese is a personal favourite of mine so please keep ‘churning’ out more of these! Chips at the end looked really nice too
Thanks L&J! Lewes is a beautiful town, in my opinion, one of my favourite places in the UK. It's amazing that this one small town produces not just my favourite beer, but also, very close by, probably my favourite wine!
THIS is my idea of Heaven ! I am just waiting for the weather to warm up enough here in the North of England to be doing the same. I would add some olives to the mix.
Thanks Garry - it is an almost surreal chapter in the history of Lewes isn't it? Really not something you'd expect to happen in Southern England, so close to the sea. I think part of what I admire so much about Lewes is how it remembers its history so well - this tragedy, the Lewes martyrs, Thomas Paine, the Battle of Lewes - the list goes on!
Thank you! Are the bluebells flowering in West Woods yet? I always seem to catch it at slightly the wrong time of year for them but I have seen other people's videos in spring and it looks stunning.
Afternoon ladies ✅ Good evening, ladies✅ Terrible content ✅ Is it possible that the collective noun for flies is not a ‘swarm’ but a ‘bother’? Gawd bless General Pitt Rivers. His collection (cough) forms the basis of one of *the* most wonderful museums. I do think that the ice bucket is perhaps a Level Up. Well done, carry on.
I assume before the Ancient Monuments Protection Act of 1882 if you had the landowner's permission you could probably just unearth whatever you wanted at a site like this, in whatever slapdash manner you saw fit. Even after that it probably took a long time for all of these places to actually be recognised as ancient monuments - it seems the hillfort atop Mount Caburn wasn't listed until 1933. Not to diminish the General's efforts of course, but I suspect amassing the sort of collection he did would be impossible today with all the legislation and protections we now have in place.
@@tweedyoutdoors the good General didn’t feel limited to picking up shiny things in just this country, it appears. At least, I judge that to be the case based on the eclectic “Pitt Rivers collection”. I may be unfairly maligning him, in which case I shall apologise. Edit: incidentally, should you ever daytrip to Oxford again, and have not already visited the OUMNH and Pitt Rivers museums, they are really rather splendid places. Unmissable, imho. But no bar, so they lose points for that. Kings Arms is barely 10 minutes walk, though, so all is not lost.
Thanks for the video. Have you heard of 'Dirty Fries', I think they are just chips with cheese on top, goes great with sparkling wine whilst sitting in a railway station. Loved this video though. 👍
In my late teens / early 20s cheesey chips probably made up half of my entire calorific intake! I never got bored of them, but as I grew older I started to realise my metabolism (not to mention my arteries) just wouldn't be able to keep up, so it is now a rare treat. Ridiculously good though!
I don't know if it is still a thing, but back in the two thousand and noughties, The Horsham Cheese Experience were a fantastic purveyor of delicious, coagulated milk product. The internet keeps telling me that this year will see a huge appearance of cicadas, though I don't know if this is just the latest media bandwagon upon which to sail lots of adverts... It could explain your flying friends. Speaking of flying, I used to see a lot of paragliders around the hills in that neck of the woods.
What a fantastic name for a cheesemonger! Also would have been a good name for a prog rock band, a vintage fairground ride, an arthouse film and a racehorse. Those little winged chaps were too small for cicadas and they didn't make the right sound either - to my ears the chirping of cicadas is akin to a malfunctioning refrigerator.
@@tweedyoutdoors I miss my horse riding days more than ever now, I want to be tearing up the fives, aloft The Horsham Cheese Experience, whilst listening to prog rock... 🐎😁
Some good olives would go with that cheese. Great video but I am wondering did you carry the ice bucket from London and ask for ice in Lewes? Were eyebrows raised?
Thank you! You're the second person to suggest olives already - great minds think alike! I carried the (empty) bucket with me from London and then bought a bag of ice in a supermarket in Lewes. It's a bit of an eccentric sort of a place Lewes - the headquarters of the Chap Magazine are there and of course the World Pea Throwing Championships are held annually at the Lewes Arms. I doubt a man in a tweed suit pouring ice cubes into a backpack even registers!
I thought you weren't really a fan of sparkling wine? Unfortunately the Breaky Bottom website itself only sells in cases, but there are some other merchants who stock them and sell individual bottles. My current favourite from them is the one I was drinking there - the 2018 Blanc de Noirs "Cuvée Noella", but I think all of the Pinot/Chardonnay based wines from Breaky Bottom are good. The Seyval Blanc based wines might be a bit more of an acquired taste (they're a bit like Chardonnay but kind of "greener" - usually a bit more grassy / herbaceous). It looks like Butler's Wine Cellar have individual bottles of the Cuvée Noella for sale - there probably are some other merchants out there too if you Google around a bit: www.butlers-winecellar.co.uk/products/breaky-bottom-cuvee-noella-2018
@@tweedyoutdoors I generally am not but I feel that perhaps I have just not had a 'suitable type'. This wine sounds like I may like it, but I wondered about getting a six bottle selection case. Are there any in there that you think would most likely not be my taste? I might just be a devil and get the mix, invite some friends around and open the lot! lol Bit cold for that still though.
@@salan3 My guess is you'd prefer the ones which have at least some Pinot in but that's only 2 of the 6 in the current mixed case offering. I really think you should try a single bottle first before plunging for a whole case! That'll give you a sense of the "house style".
What a treat from start to finish, visually inspiring and charming. Skylarks were singing as you finished there, the sound of summer meadows.
Tweedy - never feel the need to apologize for your presentations - it's fun watching you being you in beautiful locations and insight into the localities you visit. Lewes was another interesting trip, thanks for taking us with you!
Beer, pub, cheese, wine, hillfort, history, hills and chips; your tweediest adventure to date. This is just what I want for my UA-cam premium payments!
Thanks Hedley! I'm afraid the hillfort only got a cursory mention here as I was a bit too keen to crack open the wine!
“Cheese and wine tasting with Tweedy. A new high or a new low?” Definitely a HIGH.
Where better than to “review” the cheese and wine than on the Downs near to where they are produced.
Another wonderfully eccentric and photogenic video. Thank you John. 👏👏👍😀🍾🥂🧈🥖
Thanks Andrew! This is a very odd mixed bag of a channel isn't it? I'm very fortunate there is such an open minded audience out there!
The entertainment value was definitely solid on my end.
Only on Tweedy Outdoors! An ice bucket on an Iron Age hill fort in Sussex. The mainstream media really don’t stand a chance.
You have definitely motivated me to explore the South Downs this year. It does look appealing.
I remember that avalanche story from my childhood and have a northern England tale of snow-based disaster to tell at some stage this year. Something to look forward to!
Once again perhaps Mel Brooks' "This is nuts!" springs to mind?
The weather was a bit mixed on this outing, and I didn't really venture very far out of Lewes, but at its best the South Downs can be breathtaking!
As others have mentioned here, it is actually very enjoyable content!
Giving an example of a wonderful way of enjoying life and the finer things in it!
We care about Tweedy up a hill drinking wine and eating cheese!
Thank you! I worry some of my videos sometimes veer a little bit into Instagrammy show-off territory now and again, but hopefully there's enough of me getting rained on / freezing on top of a hill / tramping through mud lakes / being attacked by swarms of insects to keep it grounded!
Lovely video , Harveys beer is great, lewes such a beautiful place, cheese looked interesting .
Thanks Nigel! I agree, Lewes is a beautiful town, with so much going for it in terms of food, drink, culture, surrounding countryside - the list goes on. Quite understandably I sometimes get the sense some of the locals don't particularly want idiots like me visiting from London!
This is great content, so charming and relaxing to watch. As a Sussex man I love it, keep it uo!
Mate this is quality. Helps me on my dark days.
Thank you! Getting outdoors always helps me when the chips are down.
Loved this despite your self deprecation. Beautiful scenery, great cheese recommendations. We have been grape picking at Bluestone since they started. I always get to drive as there is complementary fizz :-) Keep up the great work.
I've got to watch this. All the good things including chips
When you have a bag of chips in hand it can be hard to remember that any other good things exist.
Cheese and wine in the countryside extremely civilised, I'd certainly like to try the brakey bottom, sound very interesting.
Great to hear Terry! The name sounds a bit silly but I honestly think Breaky Bottom can rival some of the best Champagnes. I wish English sparkling wine was all a bit cheaper - I think everything here in the UK is a struggle for the producers financially in terms of scale and labour costs... But if you compare it to Champagne it's a relative bargain, considering the quality and the added resonance of the way it captures the English countryside. Probably a bit of a niche market but I love it!
I don't know much about English wine but I noticed the wonderful colour which was apparent in the video. This suggests something about it's quality. Now I'm intrigued and will seek it out.
I wish it was a bit cheaper, but the good stuff from England is made in Champagne style so they've taken their pricing cues from there. In my opinion some of the best English sparkling wines (e.g. the Breaky Bottom featured here) are significantly better than Champagne in a similar price range, but that's of course very subjective and depends what you're looking for in a wine! I think what English sparkling does really well is acidity / freshness / fruitiness. I also love that you get these very English countryside notes - orchard and hedgerow fruit - despite the fact the grapes are typically the traditional French Champagne grapes (Pinot Noir / Chardonnay).
Also I think one of the strengths of the English wine industry is its creativity - it's kind of the Wild West of the wine world at the moment. Traditional wine regions like Champagne are heavily regulated and producers have a lot more restrictions placed on them about how they make their wine. Everything from the grape varieties they're allowed to use, to how they prune their vines, to the amount of grapes they're allowed to harvest. Obviously there's some sense in that for maintaining the baseline of quality across the region but it also stifles innovation. I've had a lot of really nice surprises in English sparkling wines in terms of grape varieties and production methods which would have never have been allowed to happen in Champagne!
It doesn’t get more quintessentially English than a man carrying an ice bucket up a hill in a tweed suit 😂 well done sir 👏
You had the "Blessing of the flies" as you embarked upon this mission John, a rather mixed blessing I might add. 05:52 No John, it's not a cup of tea ! :) I quite fancy some cheese and wine now but will have to make do with some cider and cheddar as thats whats in the fridge!
Fortunately the flies only lurked down in the valleys on that walk, I think the hilltops were too breezey for them.
It doesn't come up very often on the channel but I love cider! ...and although I like to try different types of cheese from time to time if I had to pick just one for the desert island it's going to be cheddar, no contest!
A cold sparkling white with fish & chips has always been our favourite for
a Friday night. Popular with many other people also, we have a local area called fish & chip hill, yes like Tweedy some people do take an ice bucket.
Next time I will be sure to take some cheddar.
Once again, the scenery in your video is absolutely stunning. I didn’t know you had a sparkling wine channel until today - have subbed to that also 👍🏻 cheese is a personal favourite of mine so please keep ‘churning’ out more of these! Chips at the end looked really nice too
Thanks Séan! Yes the English sparkling channel is very niche - maybe this video should have gone there really? Oh well, too late!
Absolutely beautiful spot to stop 🎉. Lewes looked interesting. Must try ESW, but really intrigued by the pub and ale. Well done!
Thanks L&J! Lewes is a beautiful town, in my opinion, one of my favourite places in the UK. It's amazing that this one small town produces not just my favourite beer, but also, very close by, probably my favourite wine!
Heading off to do the Winchester to Amberley half of the SDW next week, and this was ideal to get me in the mood , thnx Tweedy , keep it up 👍😁
THIS is my idea of Heaven ! I am just waiting for the weather to warm up enough here in the North of England to be doing the same. I would add some olives to the mix.
It was very nice! (Although a bit chilly towards the end). I do like olives but I'm guessing you can't buy any grown locally in Sussex!
@@tweedyoutdoors with global warming, give it a decade or two! Lol
1836 was the date of the avalanche and it remains the UK's most deadly example of such an event. The cheese sounded lovely.
Thanks Garry - it is an almost surreal chapter in the history of Lewes isn't it? Really not something you'd expect to happen in Southern England, so close to the sea.
I think part of what I admire so much about Lewes is how it remembers its history so well - this tragedy, the Lewes martyrs, Thomas Paine, the Battle of Lewes - the list goes on!
Being from East Sussex, Lewes is the best, but I could not afford to buy a place there. I was worried about that Fullers branded glass, for a minute.
Just got back from an adventure around West Woods with my family and now Tuning into Tweedy outdoors, what an absolute treat.
Thank you! Are the bluebells flowering in West Woods yet? I always seem to catch it at slightly the wrong time of year for them but I have seen other people's videos in spring and it looks stunning.
@tweedyoutdoors They are a couple of weeks away from blooming, I would say.
Tweedy, could you do more filming of your ascents/descents of the Downs, etc.😊
Afternoon ladies ✅
Good evening, ladies✅
Terrible content ✅
Is it possible that the collective noun for flies is not a ‘swarm’ but a ‘bother’?
Gawd bless General Pitt Rivers. His collection (cough) forms the basis of one of *the* most wonderful museums.
I do think that the ice bucket is perhaps a Level Up. Well done, carry on.
I assume before the Ancient Monuments Protection Act of 1882 if you had the landowner's permission you could probably just unearth whatever you wanted at a site like this, in whatever slapdash manner you saw fit. Even after that it probably took a long time for all of these places to actually be recognised as ancient monuments - it seems the hillfort atop Mount Caburn wasn't listed until 1933.
Not to diminish the General's efforts of course, but I suspect amassing the sort of collection he did would be impossible today with all the legislation and protections we now have in place.
@@tweedyoutdoors the good General didn’t feel limited to picking up shiny things in just this country, it appears. At least, I judge that to be the case based on the eclectic “Pitt Rivers collection”. I may be unfairly maligning him, in which case I shall apologise.
Edit: incidentally, should you ever daytrip to Oxford again, and have not already visited the OUMNH and Pitt Rivers museums, they are really rather splendid places. Unmissable, imho. But no bar, so they lose points for that. Kings Arms is barely 10 minutes walk, though, so all is not lost.
No ! loved it .
Thanks John! It was a fun afternoon / evening out.
Thanks for the video. Have you heard of 'Dirty Fries', I think they are just chips with cheese on top, goes great with sparkling wine whilst sitting in a railway station. Loved this video though. 👍
In my late teens / early 20s cheesey chips probably made up half of my entire calorific intake! I never got bored of them, but as I grew older I started to realise my metabolism (not to mention my arteries) just wouldn't be able to keep up, so it is now a rare treat. Ridiculously good though!
@@tweedyoutdoors Thanks for the great reply , so since then your metabolism has adapted to include wine and cheese. 👍👍
Sterling effort, Tweedy!
Thank you!
I don't know if it is still a thing, but back in the two thousand and noughties, The Horsham Cheese Experience were a fantastic purveyor of delicious, coagulated milk product.
The internet keeps telling me that this year will see a huge appearance of cicadas, though I don't know if this is just the latest media bandwagon upon which to sail lots of adverts... It could explain your flying friends.
Speaking of flying, I used to see a lot of paragliders around the hills in that neck of the woods.
What a fantastic name for a cheesemonger! Also would have been a good name for a prog rock band, a vintage fairground ride, an arthouse film and a racehorse.
Those little winged chaps were too small for cicadas and they didn't make the right sound either - to my ears the chirping of cicadas is akin to a malfunctioning refrigerator.
@@tweedyoutdoors I miss my horse riding days more than ever now, I want to be tearing up the fives, aloft The Horsham Cheese Experience, whilst listening to prog rock... 🐎😁
@@AnyoneForToast Quite an image there!
LOL - hiking with Ice and Ice bucket!
and please don't stop doing what you do
Some good olives would go with that cheese. Great video but I am wondering did you carry the ice bucket from London and ask for ice in Lewes? Were eyebrows raised?
Thank you! You're the second person to suggest olives already - great minds think alike!
I carried the (empty) bucket with me from London and then bought a bag of ice in a supermarket in Lewes. It's a bit of an eccentric sort of a place Lewes - the headquarters of the Chap Magazine are there and of course the World Pea Throwing Championships are held annually at the Lewes Arms. I doubt a man in a tweed suit pouring ice cubes into a backpack even registers!
@@tweedyoutdoors PMSL
@@tweedyoutdoors You might be right about Lewes 😀
Which of their ESW would you recommend for me? I was looking at the six case of mixed but I wonder if I might be better with a different choice?
I thought you weren't really a fan of sparkling wine? Unfortunately the Breaky Bottom website itself only sells in cases, but there are some other merchants who stock them and sell individual bottles. My current favourite from them is the one I was drinking there - the 2018 Blanc de Noirs "Cuvée Noella", but I think all of the Pinot/Chardonnay based wines from Breaky Bottom are good. The Seyval Blanc based wines might be a bit more of an acquired taste (they're a bit like Chardonnay but kind of "greener" - usually a bit more grassy / herbaceous).
It looks like Butler's Wine Cellar have individual bottles of the Cuvée Noella for sale - there probably are some other merchants out there too if you Google around a bit: www.butlers-winecellar.co.uk/products/breaky-bottom-cuvee-noella-2018
@@tweedyoutdoors I generally am not but I feel that perhaps I have just not had a 'suitable type'. This wine sounds like I may like it, but I wondered about getting a six bottle selection case. Are there any in there that you think would most likely not be my taste? I might just be a devil and get the mix, invite some friends around and open the lot! lol Bit cold for that still though.
@@salan3 My guess is you'd prefer the ones which have at least some Pinot in but that's only 2 of the 6 in the current mixed case offering. I really think you should try a single bottle first before plunging for a whole case! That'll give you a sense of the "house style".
"slightly nutty....... rich"
Their gnats! Which don't bite. They eat decomposing vegetation. Not nice, when you get a mouth and lung full! When cycling.😂😅