We are very excited to have just received Lucie & Jules at Ham Street Wines new CARBONNAY!
It's a wine we've been eagerly anticipating since we first saw the fruit arriving at Nicola & Daniel Ham's Offbeat winery where the wine was produced.
The 2022 vintage was a brilliant year for Lucie & Jules, with plenty of sun through ripening leading to fruit with wonderful phenolic complexity, and good yields - they wanted to try and push the possibilities of their Chardonnay, to see what alternative expressions they could tease out of the variety. Photos of the Carbonnay process are below.
Grown organically and regeneratively, they decided to give the Chardonnay a 23 day whole bunch carbonic maceration in stainless steel before being basket pressed to a single amphora and aged for 10 months, with a further 12 months in bottle.
Spontaneous fermentation, no additions, all movements by gravity and to the biodynamic calendar.
It's a brilliantly unique wine, a proper orange with texture and grip and we only have 252 bottles - get some whilst you can!
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Ham Street Carbonnay 2022
Carbonnay In The Making
Jules picking Chardonnay at their Ham Street vineyard- him and Lucie have four hectares of mixed varieties, farmed organically, regeneratively and (certified since 2023) biodynamically.
A late-night Chardonnay drop in October to 2022: Lucie & Jules (Ham Street) driving their fruit up to the Salisbury winery of Nic & Dan Ham at Offbeat Wines to help make the 2022 releases.
Whole-bunch Chardonnay before its 23 day carbonic maceration...
... and whole-bunch Chardonnay after its 23 day carbonic maceration.
Nicola Ham (Offbeat Wines) inspects the just-opened tank of Carbonic Chardonnay.
Daniel Ham (Offbeat Wines) giving the Chardonnay a little battonage before pressing.
Nicola getting the Ham Street carbonic Chardonnay through the basket press before it is aged in amphora for the next 10 months - the final day of vintage 2022.