Our vintage wines are only made in years when the vines produce the very best quality grapes. If you want to see for yourselves how this wine is made – come and join one of our winery tours…

Spring and early parts of summer 2014 were delightfully warm, allowing for bud burst to develop in perfect condition and encouraging signs of fruit-set were apparent from the get-go. The weather was wetter than usual in August but, accompanied by good temperatures, bunches began to swell, sugars were increasing and fruit maturity showed signs of excellent character. An Indian summer was the perfect outcome with veraison fully complete. Yields were up on most previous vintages and the fruit was delivering wonderful aroma and flavour. Both varieties were co-pressed and fermented in a mixture of 5 and 6 year old oak barrels with selected yeasts. Barrels are used to promote a gentle micro-oxygenation process, refining the mouthfeel and structure of the wine; there is no oak flavour imparted, due to the age of the barrels. The wine is rested on its lees for 9 months, bringing additional complexity. Due to the ideal ripeness of the fruit malolactic fermentation was blocked leaving the wine with  natural malic ‘energy’. The wine was bottled then allowed to slowly referment and age on lees for 6-8 years.

Ready to drink on release. Can be kept if stored properly – see our tips for looking after your bottles at home…

• Blend 66% Pinot Noir, 34% Pinot Meunier
• Vintage 2014
• Bottling Our wines are bottled the summer after harvest, which is the moment they begin their second fermentation, which gives them their bubbles and evolved character. 2015
• Alcohol 12%
• Dosage The dosage indicates the amount per litre of sugar in the 'liqueur de dosage', a mixture of wine and sugar added to the bottles when they are disgorged at the end of the ageing process, to ensure balance and harmony in the final blend. 8 grams per litre
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