Tasting Notes

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Jancis Robinson Tamlyn Currin - 29 May 21
Full bottle 1,274 g. Kent, North Downs, chalk terroir. Estate grown, single vineyard. Primary and malolactic fermentation in stainless-steel tanks, nine months in French oak barrels. Tasted blind. Smells like spicy, late-harvest apples – when the skins have gone a little wrinkly. Dry, lean, refined; but there is enough flesh and structure to give it shape and grace. Good oak. Good structure. Good spice. Even some minerality. With citrus pith. Pomelo. White pepper. Hay and lovage and a bit of borage. Cement-quarry dust. Very good! Real complexity and substance here – although you would not mistake it for burgundy. I wonder, idly, if this might not become a terroir benchmark for English Chardonnay… (TC)
Drinking Date: 2022 - 2027
United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The UK’s wine scene has come of age. With cool-climate growing conditions and chalky soils, southern England now produces sparkling wines that rival the best in the world. But it’s not all bubbles – Bacchus, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are making waves as still wines too. Elegant, crisp and unmistakably British, these wines reflect the precision and quiet confidence of a flourishing homegrown industry. And from north of the border, Scotland continues to define excellence of its own, with whiskies revered the world over for their depth, craft and character.