NYETIMBER

2009 Classic Cuvée Brut Nyetimber Vineyard

Grapes Pinot Meunier, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Colour White
Origin United Kingdom, England
ABV 12%

Charles Metcalfe co-chairman of the IWC, yesterday announced the winners of the Best English Sparking wine with Nyetimber Classic Cuvee 2009 sweeping the board to victory. The Classic Cuvee 09 scooped the highest accolade possible for the Overall Best Sparkling Wine in the UK as well as collecting trophies for the Best English Sparkling White Wine and the Gold Medal award. International Wine & Spirit Competition 2014 (May 2014)


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Delicious. This swanky, classy, biscuity and toasty fizz shows all the hallmarks of the best of English fizz, and is all the more helped by this 2009 vintage, which was one of the best English vintages in the last 10 years. Made from 55% Chardonnay, 26% Pinot Noir, 19% Pinot Meunier, it shows baked apple fruit with a brisk herbaceous freshness while a classy minerality lingers on the long finish. Even better, resist temptation now and try it again in 6-8 years' time when it has even extra development of flavour. Rating: 91 The Wine Gang - www.thewinegang.com

Best score of the non-French Sparkling wines in Jancis Robinson's 'Fizz - autumn collection 2013.' 55% Chardonnay, 26% Pinot Noir, 19% Pinot Meunier, dosage 9 g/l. Maturing, creamy nose with a lovely Chardonnay character. Great personality – full and rich, yet with pinpoint structure. A return to form after the 2008. Drink 2013-2018 Rating: 17+ Richard Hemming MW - www.JancisRobinson.com

Nyetimber

In 1988, as Lea & Sandeman was founded, the vines were being planted here in West Sussex. Few vineyards in England are better placed to exploit the similarity between the soils of the South Downs and those of the Champagne region in France than Nyetimber in West Sussex. But it took a couple from Chicago - Stuart and Sandy Moss - to bring the dream to life when they bought Nyetimber Manor in 1986. Vineyards followed from 1988 onwards, and the first vintage released was the 1992.

Nyetimber is now owned by Eric Heerema who already owned a vineyard in West Sussex when he bought Nyetimber in 2006 and had identified more land for planting. All were amalgamated into Nyetimber which now comprises some 350 acres, all planted to Chardonnay and the Pinots Noir and Meunier, making it at the time the biggest vineyard in England, and the first to use only these three Champagne varieties

Eric's greatest act was probably the hiring of married couple Cherie Spriggs and Brad Greatrex in 2007, who are both winemakers, with Cherie taking the 'head winemaker' role. The couple, who had tasted a bottle given to them by Cherie's parents and recognised the potential, have, as the Nytimber website puts it 'been integral to building Nyetimber into a sparkling wine producer that rivals the best in the world'.

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