Bottling has started
The wines have been in tank happily for the past 4 months and it is now time to bottle them. Yesterday we bottled over 6,000 bottles of our Nutty Wild sparkling wine, which is made from 100% pinot noir and only sits on lees for 12 months making it a young and fresh wine. The…
Lower Alcohol Wines Preferred
Lower alcohol wines are becoming more popular and preferred by many consumers to the stronger alcohol wines which can be over powering in taste and undesired when opting to drink less. Lower alcohol wines originated from Mosel in Germany due to their cooler climates which resulted in growing grapes with less sugar content and…
January 2019 New Year
THE UNDERGROUND CAVE Work on our new underground “cave’ is about to be completed. This is a wonderful new temperature stable long term wine store with space for up to 200,000 bottles. Please come and see it this summer. NEW WINES We have some exciting new additions to our range – our much anticipated Blush rose…
2018 Record Harvest
We experienced our biggest ever harvest this year picking over 50 tons of the classic champagne varietals -Chardonnay, Pinot Noir & Pinot Blanc, and over 25 tons of our Riesling style – Bacchus, Reichensteiner & Huxelrebe. Harvest started a whole month earlier than usual, in mid-September and finished 17th October. This gave us ideal warm, dry Autumn…
2018 Harvest
We experienced our biggest ever harvest this year picking over 50 tons of the classic champagne varietals-Chardonnay Pinot Noir & Pinot Blanc, and over 25 tons of our Riesling style-Bacchus, Reichensteiner & Huxelrebe. Harvest started a whole month earlier than usual on 17th September and finished on October 17th . This gave us ideal warm, dry Autumn conditions…
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