FOR the second year running, Lyme Bay Winery’s Sparkling Brut Rose has won a prestigious People’s Choice Award.

The drink producer, based just over the border in Axminster, took home the prize in the ‘Fabulous Fizz; Best Sparkling Wine UK’ category.

Paul Sullivan, head of sales and marketing at Lyme Bay Winery, said: “We are over the moon to win at the people’s Choice Wine Awards again.

“It is the consumers’ opinion that matters most so we all felt it was a huge accolade to win the award for best UK sparkling wine this year.

“We pride ourselves on an unstinting focus on quality and with this wine and others, it looks like consumers and critics alike love what we do.

“We’re thrilled that the judges enjoyed it as much as the 2014 vintage, which won the previous year.”

The latest award win for the wine is the first of the decade for the winery and 129th since 2015. In the last year alone, the Sparkling Brut Rose has been awarded five accolades, both in UK and international competitions.

The People’s Choice Wine Awards began in 2017 and receive hundreds of submissions from retailers, supermarkets, importers and producers.

Janet Harrison, founder of the People’s Choice Wine Awards, said: “We are thrilled that Lyme Bay Winery’s Sparking Brut Rose has won the 2020 award - it was such a popular winner last year and proved to be top of the class again.”