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2021 Chardonnay, Lyme Bay Wine Republic

2022 Chardonnay, Lyme Bay

Essex, England

English Cream & Citrus

Bright, polished and quietly luxurious, this is English Chardonnay with both generosity and grip. Custard apple, clementine and light honeysuckle open the nose, followed by ripe orchard fruit, subtle spice and a gentle creamy note that gives the wine its lovely breadth. The palate is rich but finely balanced, with pear, baked apple and citrus all carried by a crisp, complex framework that keeps everything lifted and precise. There is texture here, certainly, but the finish stays fresh, elegant and quietly mineral, making the wine feel both comforting and beautifully composed.

For when: the food is elegant, the weather is bright, and the white needs both charm and substance.
Pairs with: roast chicken, grilled seafood, creamy fish dishes, or mushroom risotto with herbs.
If this wine were a place: a sunlit English orchard in early autumn, where the air feels cool, but the fruit is perfectly ripe.

Lyme Bay Winery has become one of the most exciting names in modern English still wine, helping push the category well beyond its once modest reputation. Working with carefully sourced fruit, particularly from Essex, the winery has built a style based on ripeness, balance and precision, and this Chardonnay shows that beautifully. Elegant, lightly oaked and structured enough to age, it captures the confidence and growing quality of English Chardonnay at exactly the right moment.

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Lyme Bay Winery is one of the leading names in modern English still wine, based in East Devon and founded more than 30 years ago. While the winery began with a broader drinks portfolio, it has become especially known for helping raise the profile of English still wine, working with a network of growers across the south of England to source high-quality fruit and craft wines with real precision and character. Lyme Bay describes itself as the most awarded English still wine producer based on awards since 2021 from major competitions, including the IWC, IWSC, Decanter World Wine Awards and WineGB, underlining just how far the estate has helped push the category forward.

What makes Lyme Bay so compelling is the way it combines ambition with accessibility. The house style is built around ripeness, balance and careful winemaking, producing still wines that feel confident, polished and unmistakably contemporary, while still reflecting the freshness and energy that make English wine so distinctive. Across Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and beyond, Lyme Bay has become a benchmark for what English still wine can be at its best.

The Chardonnay grapes were hand-harvested between the 3rd and 8th of October 2022 after a beautifully hot and dry summer. Fermented in a mixture of stainless steel and oak at cool temperatures using selected Burgundy yeast strains to enhance complexity, stone fruit, floral characters and minerality. Post fermentation there was full malolactic fermentation and extended fine lees ageing with regular bâtonnage to accentuate the natural weight. The wine was aged in oak for a little over a year before final blending.