2023 White Field
2023 White Field
The field blend of Matt’s white varieties, everything with varying degrees of gentle infusion maceration to dial in the detail and matter - pithy citrus, blooming hedgerow florals, a light, breezy smasher tethered to the earth with a small portion of the gravity-laden 10 week macerated Solaris.
Cuvée: White Field
Style: Still
Colour: White/Skins
Grapes/Blend: 76% Seyval, 19% Bacchus, 5% Solaris
ABV: 9%
Vintage: 2023
Winemaking: Hand-harvested. Each parcel of grapes was fermented separately, given the wide range of ripening times and picking dates in 2023. Everything was de-stemmed and fermented with the skins according to each variety:: Seyval for two weeks, Bacchus for six weeks, Solaris for nine weeks. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with a small addition of sulphur.
Sulphur: 10mg/l at bottling
Soil: Jurassic limestone mud, overlain with glacial deposits: limestone, flint, ironstone and quartz
Matt Gregory farms a beautiful 3-hectare vineyard planted in 2009/10 - south facing and 100 metres above sea level: one of the highest points on the Leicestershire Wolds. Comprising 200 million-year-old Jurassic fine grained limestone mud made up from carbonates of coral and shell, overlain with 2-million-year-old glacial deposits featuring limestone, flint, ironstone and quartz.
Whilst farming is organic, due to the vineyards location in the middle of a 500-acre arable farm, Matt will not be pursuing certification.
From his rows of Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Bacchus and a mix of PIWIs Matt produces nimble, elegant wines, worked gently to allow their terroir to shine.