TITCH HILL
ENGLAND, SOUTH EAST, SUSSEX
The holiday treats continue to roll in as we kick off another week, very pleased to have a trio of new releases from Alex & Sam at Titch Hill.
Dreamhouse is an easy-drinking white, varieties pressed directly - boasting that giddy English meadow of the much-loved Love Streams pet nat, bottled summer for joyful winter drinking. God Complex is the result of Bacchus macerated on its skins for 23 days, layered and textural, bursting with peach and citrus. And marking their first foray into cider making, Bonaire is a co-ferment of 80% Dabinett apples and 20% Pinot Noir - fun, lively good-time drinking!
Titch Hill is the project of Alex Tristram and Sam Bunker, who met while studying winemaking at Plumpton in 2017. The vines are planted on a farm that has been in Alex's family for generations, with his uncle taking a keen interest in environmental restoration in the early 1980s, repairing the damage done across the UK by post-war industrial farming.
These new releases are primarily made from negocé fruit (from vineyards in London, Wiltshire and East Sussex) after a tricky second vintage. - their own vines are in organic conversion but soon to be certified. They first planted 3.5 hectares of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir & Pinot Meunier in 2019, followed by 4 hectares of 12 different PIWIs - aiming to entirely reduce any input, allowing more time to focus on soil health and diversity.
On the high chalk of the South Downs, they are among the closest vineyards to the sea in the UK. Work in the winery is as minimal as possible to allow the fruit to speak for itself, they are strictly no additions.
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WHITE/SKINS
2023 - Dreamhouse - Bacchus, Auxerrois, Chardonnay, Ortega
Varieties were hand-harvested from three UK vineyards: Forty Hall, London and Natalia Harris, Hastings (both certified organic), and a little from a’Becketts - Wiltshire (uncertified, no insecticides or pesticides). No added sulphur.
2023 - God Complex - Bacchus
Hand harvested from Natalia Harris, Hastings (certified organic). No added sulphur.
CIDER
2023 - Bonaire - Dabinett, Pinot Noir
No added sulphur.