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Chapel Down’s first vineyards were planted in the 1970s; the winery now has 200 acres in the chalk soils of Kent,...
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A blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, with reserves from previous years, and lees-aged for 2 ½ to 3 years to give...
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A delightfully pale, salmon pink colour, made wholly from Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes and lees-aged for 2 to...
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All our wines are tasted and judged against their peers in the principal judging week of DWWA – but making the...
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From an excellent vintage and on lees for over six years, this exceptional bubbly is also England's most expensive...
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A complex and expertly made English bubbly from one of the nation's top estates, this opens with some struck match...
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This sunset-hued vintage rosé demonstrates just how far England has come on the winemaking front. And what the...
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#54 ENTHUSIAST 100 2022. This is a vibrant and beautifully crafted blanc de blancs. Aromas of lemon, pear and green...
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Notions of spiky lemon zest and rounded shortbread vie for dominance on the wine's lively nose. These opposing...
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Evocative redcurrant notes play on the nose. They become more intense on the palate where lively fizz lets them mix...
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Gusbourne Estate Blanc De Blancs 2014
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Chalk, flint and stone are the first impressions on the nose. These are followed by overtones of lemon and...
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Gusbourne Estate Blanc De Blancs 2018
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All our wines are tasted and judged against their peers in the principal judging week of DWWA – but making the...
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Gusbourne Estate Brut Reserve 2019
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A complex and expertly made English bubbly from one of the nation's top estates, this opens with some struck match...
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Gusbourne Estate Rose Traditional Method 2018
750ml - Case of 6
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This sunset-hued vintage rosé demonstrates just how far England has come on the winemaking front. And what the...
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Hambledon Vineyard Brut Premiere Cuvee NV
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Confit lemon, orange blossom and white lily exude on the nose, nestling amongst ripe apricot, white peach and baked...
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Sugrue Sparkling Blanc De Blancs Cuvee BOZ 2015
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“I crafted this Blanc de Blancs with long cellar-ageing in mind, and I am delighted with the results: it is...
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Wiston Estate Cuvee Brut 2015
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Notions of spiky lemon zest and rounded shortbread vie for dominance on the wine's lively nose. These opposing...
Champagne Blend Grenache Melon de Bourgogne England 750ml
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.
One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.
Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.