Winemaker Notes
Brut Reserve is our best-selling sparkling wine. The 2022 vintage is opulent and elegant, with more developed biscuit notes, toasted cobnuts and delicate spice, leading to a long, zesty finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Delicate, downright pretty aromas of baked apple, pear, lemon pith and flaky pastry flow to a palate that's open-knit and approachable yet also intricate and harmonious. There's a beautifully long line of tangy acidity that carries the flavor and textural weight through to a long finish, tempting you into another sip. And another. A highly classy fizz from one of English wine's top producers.
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James Suckling
This bright and elegant sparkling wine has aromas of chopped apples, biscuits, lemon rind and raspberries. It’s crisp and lively with fine bubbles. Chardonnay, pinot noir and pinot meunier.
Representing the topmost expression of a Champagne house, a vintage Champagne is one made from the produce of a single, superior harvest year. Vintage Champagnes account for a mere 5% of total Champagne production and are produced about three times in a decade. Champagne is typically made as a blend of multiple years in order to preserve the house style; these will have non-vintage, or simply, NV on the label. The term, "vintage," as it applies to all wine, simply means a single harvest year.
The limestone soils of England’s southern end have proven ideal for the production of British sparkling wine. While it might seem too damp and cold for grape growing in England, recent warm summers and the onset of global warming signify great future growth for the British wine industry.