(GlobalPost) - On a warm fall morning, the Bolney Wine Estate is as close to an English idyll as you’re likely to find. Fields of ripening grapes bask under a warm, lazy sun as small woodland creatures scurry along quiet country lanes lined with bramble bushes. But at the heart of this sleepy pastoral scene, amid a small collection of farm buildings where grapes will soon be pressed and processed into a modest selection of wines, there’s an unmistakable buzz. Outside a large, cool barn where cages of unlabeled bottles are fermenting, a group of visitors murmurs in anticipation of a sampling session that will end its tour. Over by the bottling room, a Japanese television crew interviews winemaker Sam Linter.