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Posted on April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 by Matt Hodgson

Danbury Ridge – sneak preview of future releases

Danbury Ridge I was invited to Danbury Ridge Wine Estate last month to see, or more importantly, taste, how their yet to…
Category: Vineyard Visits
Tags: chardonnay, Danbury Ridge, English Red WInes, English Sparkling Wine, English White Wines, pinot noir
Posted on January 29, 2022January 29, 2022 by Matt Hodgson

White Pinot Noir

Grapes English Wine Pinot Noir is one of the world’s most popular wine grape varieties, whose home is Burgundy, and which has spread…
Category: Wine reviews
Tags: English White Wines, English Wine, pinot noir
Posted on December 5, 2021January 15, 2022 by Matt Hodgson

What wine goes with gammon?

Gammon with English White Wine and English Red Wine A succulent, salty gammon joint is a real pleasure: not too heavy but, cooked correctly, melt-in-the-mouth delicious. The legendary Mary…
Category: Wine and food
Tags: English Red WInes, English White Wines, English Wine
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 November 15, 2021January 15, 2022 by Matt Hodgson

What is the best English wine?

Roebuck Estate Classic Cuvée 2014 English Sparkling Wine The best English wine? That’s a really tough question! With so many exceptional English Sparkling Wines and, in recent years,…
Category: Wine reviews
Tags: English Sparkling Wine, English White Wines, English Wine
Posted on October 15, 2021January 15, 2022 by Matt Hodgson

What to drink with carbonara

Spaghetti Carbonara Spaghetti carbonara is a great comfort food, flavoursome and rich, but relatively quick and easy to prepare. There are probably…
Category: Wine and food
Tags: English White Wines, English Wine
Posted on June 16, 2021June 23, 2021 by Matt Hodgson

Simpsons Wine Estate interview – 2020 still wines tasting

Simpsons Wine Estate English Wine Matt Hodgson, Managing Director of premier English & Welsh wine specialist retailers Grape Britannia, discusses the fabulous 2020 vintage with…
Category: Vineyard Visits
Tags: English Red WInes, english rosé wines, English White Wines, English Wine
Posted on February 20, 2021March 24, 2021 by Matt Hodgson

English Pinot Noir – still & sparkling, white, rosé & red – the most versatile grape in England

Pinot Noir grapes Pinot Noir – capable of making the most ethereal and haunting of red wines, and contributing character and body to…
Category: Wine reviews
Tags: English Red WInes, english rosé wines, English Sparkling Wine, English White Wines, English Wine, pinot noir
Posted on August 26, 2020October 14, 2020 by Matt Hodgson

August update, offers and new wines

Excited and humbledWe entered the Decanter Retailer Awards 2020 with the emphasis very much on hope rather than expectation, wondering if…
Category: Grape Britannia news
Tags: Bacchus, English Bacchus wines, English Sparkling Wine, English White Wines, English Wine
Posted on June 12, 2020June 23, 2020 by Matt Hodgson

A special tasting with Balfour Hush Heath

Balfour Mixed Case English Wine Balfour were one of the first estates we visited once the idea of setting up Grape Britannia started to become…
Categories: Vineyard Visits, Wine reviews
Tags: balfour, dessert wine, English Red WInes, English White Wines, English Wine

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Freedom of the Press Chardonnay 2020

Wild flowers, tangerine, citrus, stone, butter and honey

A classic chardonnay from a ripe vintage. A lovely gold colour, with notes of wild flowers, tangerine, citrus, stone and honey. It has a light buttery quality that comes with gentle oak ageing in mellow old barrels, lees contact, and malolactic fermentation. It has great texture on the palate, and the alcohol of 13% is just the right body to hang the flavours on. Decent – but not overbearing – acidity makes it a good food match, and a wine to age. The fruit was picked in the Crouch valley, Essex in mid October 2020 at around 93 oesechler (sugar level) – which is very ripe for English chardonnay. Four different clones were included in the batch, creating a complex profile. After a gentle press the wine was fermented in old oak using a variety of yeasts (again – for complexity) and matured on its lees for 11 months (contributing to a rich mouth feel), during which time malolactic fermentation converted sharper malic acid to the softer lactic acid. In the early months the wine was batonnaged (stirred with its lees) every week, and this reduced to once a month in spring. The wine was filtered before bottling to ensure stable long-term bottle ageing. It is closed with a Diam 5 cork, promising to be cork-taint free and having a consistent oxygen transfer rate for predictable long term cellar ageing. Freedom of the Press is an urban winery on a hill in the Cotswolds. “That makes no sense” you might reasonably say. The original plan was to establish an ‘urban winery’ in Oxford with no vineyards of their own, buying the best grapes from across the country. They would operate more like an in-town micro brewery or boutique distillery than what most people think of as a vineyard. So that was the plan – they had a venue selected and everything. That was early Spring 2020. Covid took control of everybody’s lives, and the Oxford venue fell through. But just as it looked like it was curtains for the project they found a new home, a unit on a beautiful farm above Minster Lovell in the Cotswolds, 15 miles from Oxford.

Freedom of the Press Chardonnay 2020 English White Wine
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