2010 NYETIMBER Classic Cuvée Brut Nyetimber Vineyard, Lea & Sandeman

NYETIMBER

2010 Classic Cuvée Brut Nyetimber Vineyard

Grapes Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir
Colour White
Origin United Kingdom, English Sparkling Wine
Classification English Sparkling Wine
ABV 12%

Superlative sparkling wine with creamy zing and the regal poise and panache of the world's finest fizz. Olly Smith, The Mail on Sunday (Aug 2016)


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Pale straw gold. Mid-sized bead. Rather broad and friendly on the nose. Golden on the palate. So easy to like! The acid seems much less evident than on most of them. Open and ready. This was the most evolved wine and least tart wine of the lot, so not obviously English! Rating: 17 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jul 2016)

Made from a blend of 51% Pinot Noir, 36% Chardonnay and 13% Pinot Meunier grapes, the vintage offers a distinct expression of the year’s harvest in the signature House style. The Classic Cuvee 2010 is pale golden in colour with gentle, fine bubbles that fill the nose with toasty, spicy and complex aromas showing wonderful development after more than three years on lees in the cellar. The palate supports these complex aromas with honey, almond, pastry and baked apple flavours.Winemaker's notes

Temperatures in the early part of the 2010 growing season were slightly lower than average, but that coincided with much drier weather as well. Flowering proceeded in excellent conditions in late June and early July with hot and dry weather producing a large, even crop. A slow, gradual ripening of the fruit has produced a fine, elegant wine with a great combination of intensity, delicacy and length. It’s a wine that we’re all very proud of.Winemaker's notes

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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