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Posted on May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 by admin

English Wine Week 2022: Celebrating the Best of British

As we move into May, it’s time to start thinking about English Wine Week 2022. This week-long event will feature…
Category: Industry news
Posted on November 30, 2021January 15, 2022 by Matt Hodgson

England and Wales 2021 vintage report: Saved by September, sensational for sparkling?

Stopham Vineyard 2021 harvest Overview The most common description of England and Wales’ 2020 vintage was “exceptional” – for 2021 it is “exceptionally difficult”….
Category: Industry news
Tags: English Red WInes, English Sparkling Wine, English White Wines, English Wine
Posted on May 8, 2021January 16, 2022 by Matt Hodgson

Bacchus: a divine grape

English Bacchus grapes “What is Bacchus?” people often ask us. Bacchus is a white wine grape variety. A fantastic name for a wine…
Category: Industry news
Tags: Bacchus, English Bacchus wines
Posted on March 25, 2021November 14, 2021 by Matt Hodgson

English Sparkling Wine Guide: key categories and exceptional examples

English Sparkling Wines Why Choose English Sparkling Wines? This article is intended as a guide to English Sparkling Wines both for those that…
Category: Industry news
Tags: Blanc de Blancs, Blanc de Noirs, Brut, Demi-Sec, English Sparkling Wine, Extra-Dry
Posted on November 8, 2020November 30, 2021 by Matt Hodgson

England and Wales 2020 vintage report: Stunning quality, reduced quantity

Nyetimber harvest 2020 Overview It wasn’t the smoothest of growing seasons, but the end results demonstrate fantastic potential. Although there were many positive…
Category: Industry news
Tags: English Sparkling Wine, English Wine, vintage report
Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 by Matt Hodgson

The 2019 English Vintage conditions report

English vineyard in summer We’re delighted to be able to reproduce this comprehensive report of the 2019 growing season, compiled by Tony Eva, of…
Category: Industry news
Posted on April 5, 2020June 23, 2020 by Matt Hodgson

#theBIGenglishwinegoodfriday

TheBIGEnglishWineGoodFriday A single Tweet from Jacob Leadley, winemaker at Black Chalk, has inspired a huge response – bringing people together (virtually)…
Category: Industry news
Tags: English Sparkling Wine, English Wine, theBIGenglishwinegoodfriday
Posted on August 9, 2019October 14, 2019 by Matt Hodgson

2019 vintage – mid-season thoughts

2019 English vintage For fifty years my wife’s father has been a milkman in the Forest of Dean, a beautiful part of England,…
Category: Industry news
Tags: 2019 vintage, harvest report
Posted on August 1, 2019October 14, 2019 by Matt Hodgson

Better than Burgundy?

English Chardonnay English Pinot Noir Better than Burgundy? That’s a pretty provocative title, and even I don’t dare publish it without a question mark at…
Category: Industry news
Tag: English Chardonnay
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Litmus Wines Element 20 2016

Rich fruit; a combination of lemon, peach & apricot; lovely toasty vanilla & mineral notes

The 2016 growing season was sensational. Perfect flowering conditions followed by August rains and a warm September led to early ripening of a good crop in the coolness of early October. The 2016 Element 20 goes back to the the usual blend of Bacchus and Chardonnay. Fermented separately in one to five-year-old French oak barriques the wine was left on full lees for eleven months before bottling. Complex, mature, elegant and stylish, this silky, rich, full bodied wine has a balancing acidity that will ensure that even further complexity is achieved in years to follow. John Worontschak is the chief wine maker, who has developed the Litmus wines range. John has been making English wine since 1988. In 2010 John decided to create the first Litmus wine, Element 20; the concept was to move away from the traditional fruity and often one dimensional English wine styles. The Litmus range is a culmination of John’s experience and the wines are designed to highlight the very best of cool climate English style wines, promoting balance, complexity and length of flavour.

Litmus Wines Element 20 2014 English White Wine
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