WI N E OF T H E MON TH
County Business Club Wine of the Month May/June 2022
As we come into summer and to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee I have chosen an
English sparkling wine from the Wiston Estate, which is based on the beautiful South Downs, 10 minutes North of Worthing. This wine has been produced by Dermot Sugrue who, in my view, is the UK’s most talented wine maker who makes wines for many other English wine brands. The wine of choice is Wiston NV sparkling wine which is the entry level offering of the Wiston wines and the most popular of their range.
I would say that this is the benchmark
for English sparkling wine and is made in the same way as Champagne using the
same three grapes with a typical split of 35% Chardonnay, 35% Pinot Noir, 30% Pinot Meunier. This wine was named
as Best Sparkling in the Independent English Wine Awards 2019 and, in
my view, is a benchmark for English
sparkling wine and would beat most
Champagnes. The wine has consistent
fine bubbles, with a pleasant fruity nose which is backed up with a perfectly
balanced initial green apple and citrus backbone followed by a bakery notes from the bottle aging.
Tasting notes from the winemaker are as follows;
Our Brut NV combines a purity of
green apple and ripe lemon flavours
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with a rich and complex maturity. This
Stellenbosch in South Africa. This
sparkling wine with fine bubbles, lots
specialists across Sussex, Brighton
multi-vintage wine is a highly-scented
wine is available from multiple wine
of toasty, biscuity autolysis from long
and Hove Wine Club or direct from the
lees-aging and a long finish.
vineyard.
FOOD PAIRING - Tapas, charcuterie,
Michael Yeoman,
cheese, antipasti
This wine is the perfect aperitif or
English Wine and International Wine Specialist
accompaniment to canapes. I can
Michael Yeoman produces his
Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations. Why
with Spirit of the Downs (www.
Wine Tour or Chalk Restaurant off the
with small batch local vineyards with his
platform to present these excellent
brightonandhovewineclub.co.uk)
think of no better wine to cheer on the
own range of sustainable spirits
not try a bottle or visit the excellent
spiritofthedowns.co.uk) and works
A24 which provides an appropriate
Brighton and Hove Wine Club (www.
wines and locally sourced foods?
The owner, Pippa, originally comes
from South Africa and so the facilities have a grandeur which reminds me of the 300-year-old vineyards from
