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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…

By admin 06/03/2019 Off

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…

By admin 04/02/2019 0

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…

By admin 21/01/2019 0

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…

By admin 21/01/2019 0