About
HARTof GOLD

Growing conditions

2013 turned out to be a great vintage in England, but it got off to a very slow start, with flowering nearly 3 weeks late. Much of the rest of the summer was warm, but not excessively hot, and by harvest time the grapes had almost caught up in ripeness, but retained refreshingly high levels of acidity.

Winemaking notes

Beautiful grapes in perfect condition were harvested in early October, and brought down to Ridgeview for whole bunch pressing and fermentation. Each grape variety is harvested separately. The base wine is then blended, mixed with liqueur de tirage (a syrupy mix of wine, sugar and yeast), and sealed in a bottle with a crown cap to being the secondary fermentation (which is where the bubbles come from). Three years in the bottle in contact with the lees before disgorgement.