2019 'White Cliffs' Blanc de Blancs, Simpsons Wine Estate Your Store

2019 'White Cliffs' Blanc de Blancs, Simpsons Wine Estate

Kent, United Kingdom and England

Classic, vibrant aromas of citrus and green apple are balanced with subtle brioche notes and distinctive English minerality and finesse.  White Cliffs 2017 is the first release of a Blanc de Blancs sparkling wine from Simpsons’ Wine Estate, created from 100% estate-grown Chardonnay

Simpsons Wine Estate is situated in the Elham Valley; an unspoilt seam in the North Downs of Kent where the contours of the land, the climate and the soil are excellent for viticulture. The intensely lime-rich chalk soil forms part of the same chalk ridge that stretches from southern England through Champagne and on to Burgundy. The grapes come from the Roman Road vineyard, named after the route the Romans first marched when invading England in AD 43.  They are grown on south-facing slopes, ensuring heat accumulation in the day and cold air drainage at night. The vineyard is less than eight miles from the coast, providing a crucial maritime influence insulating the fruit against intense temperature variations.

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Chardonnay 100%

£39.50
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Charles and Ruth Simpson have been making award-winning wines in the South of France since 2002. In 2012, attracted by the quality of the terroir and the opportunity to become part of one of the most dynamic wine-producing regions in the world, they brought their expertise back to the UK, establishing Simpsons Wine Estate. Aspiring to produce the finest quality English wine, they planted 30 hectares of vineyards on the iconic chalk terroir of the North Downs and built a state-of-the-art gravity-fed winery. In 2016, the Simpsons saw their first harvest. With a strong focus on provenance, they produce a highly-acclaimed range of exclusively estate-grown still and sparkling wines, including the Chalklands Classic Cuvée 2016, which won a gold medal in the 2019 Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships.

On their French wine estate, the award-winning Domaine Sainte Rose in the Languedoc region, the Simpsons have always pursued the cleaner, truer flavours of the grape, and are now bringing this savoir-faire to their English vineyards. With rootstock meticulously matched to the soil and a new world-class winery just minutes from the vines, quality is the watchword.

The estate-grown grapes were hand-picked over a two week period and the grapes from two different sparkling clones were vinified separately. The grapes were whole bunch pressed and fermented with wild and selected yeasts in stainless steel tanks, at controlled temperatures of 14 to 16°C. Malolactic conversion took place and the wines spent three months in stainless steel tanks ageing on light lees. After a series of tastings, the wines were blended, filtered and bottled to undergo the ‘prise de mousse’. Following the bottle fermentation, the wine spent 36 months ageing on the lees.

Country
England

Grape
Chardonnay

Producer
Simpsons Wine Estate

Size
750ml

Types
Champagne & Sparkling Wine, English & Welsh Sparkling Wine, Festive Fizz, Sparkling

Vintage
2019
Region
Kent

Sub-Region
Elham Valley

2019 'White Cliffs' Blanc de Blancs, Simpsons Wine Estate

£39.50

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