2023 White
2023 White
Elegant and invigorating, with that divining-rod minerality that seems to have your straw plunged directly into the limestone. A green salad of cucumber, melon, lime, bitter herbs from the garden, summer unfurls.
Cuvée: White
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Bacchus
ABV: 10%
Vintage: 2023
Winemaking: Hand harvested. 80% of the grapes were de-stemmed and macerated with the skins for 6 weeks, the other 20% were left whole bunch and carbonically macerated for 10 days before being pressed. The 2 elements were blended together, and a small addition of sulphur was made before bottling. Unfined and unfiltered.
Sulphur: 10mg/l added
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.