English Still Wines
Hattingley Valley Entice 2025
Beautiful notes of elderflower and lemon on the palate with a delicious honeyed character and a creamy mouthfeel
Pale gold in colour, this decadent dessert wine is bursting with aromatic notes of lemon zest, honeysuckle, and tropical fruits. On the palate, ripe pineapple, mangosteen, and lychee give way to layers of pink peach and bright lemon curd. Sumptuously rich and luscious yet perfectly balanced, it ends smoothly with a long, vibrant finish.
For this wine, Hattingley harvest the grapes at a higher than usual sugar ripeness (so they leave them out for a bit longer than normal, weather permitting) then they put around 4 tonnes of Bacchus grapes in their walk-in freezer where they stay at minus 10 degrees for two weeks. Once the usual harvest is over, they take the frozen grapes out, put them in their press and press them extremely gently to extract the juice. The result is a very concentrated, pure fruit liquid that has high amounts of sugar. The benefit of using Bacchus is that the sugar is balanced out by a wonderful fresh acidity, therefore the wine is not cloying. It shows a lot of fragrant elderflower and ripe juicy pineapple. This delectable dessert wine is Hattingley’s take on ice wine (or Eiswien as it is known in Germany).
Hattingley Valley uses the latest technology and equipment from continental Europe, has sophisticated waste disposal facilities and was the first UK winery to adopt solar power. The vines are nurtured throughout the growing year with an environmentally-sensitive approach to viticulture ensuring optimum ripeness, yield and quality of fruit.
