English Sparkling Wines

Coates & Seely Brut Reserve NV Hampshire, England goes from strength to strength. It’s a pinot-based blend and carries a suggestion of fresh walnuts and cherries with a sappy energy and rapie...(more info)

Very fine bead. Quite fruity and accessible already but with a dry finish. This would certainly make a good party wine – not too complicated and not too tart or dry.

Passion fruit, honey and mango aromas. Broad and mouthfilling with notes of brown bread ice cream, toast, tropical fruit, creamy and generous, but with delicious balance.

A pale lemon/gold colour with a stream of fine bubbles. Aromas of red apple, almonds, honey and toasted brown bread. The palate has a fine mousse with tropical fruit flavours, zesty acidity and s...(more info)

Cracking Blanc de Blancs from Dorset. 100% Chardonnay. Aged on its lees for 18 months before disgorging. Toasted bread, spice and honey on the nose give way to a crisp green apple palate backed w...(more info)

58% Pinot noir and 42% Pinot meunier. Aged for 40 months on yeast lees.This has a gorgeously rich colour - an almost rose gold shade to it and is peppered with a very fine line of tiny bubbles in...(more info)

Pale straw with a greenish tinge. Very light, flirtatious nose. This tastes as though it has been deliberately styled to contrast with the Classic Cuvée that is a blend of different variet...(more info)

Pleasingly pale, with a fine bead of soft, well-integrated bubbles that fill the nose with aromas of wild strawberry, some perky red berries and a very gentle, soothingly doughy, autolytic note....(more info)

Good intensity, ripe citrus, quince, yellow plum with nice autolytic notes coming through, biscuit, nut and bread with just a touch of something floral. Clean and bright on the palate with rich c...(more info)

Like the 2016 Rosé this new cuvée from the young Rathfinny Eestate has been put on the list as a 'by the glass pour' at the Ritz in London. ANd it no surprise. This is a terribly as...(more info)

Cream, crisp apple and baked toast – loads of flavour here, and seriously good value as a consequence. There’s an almost nutty sort of finish – really very complex and interesting. Very good.

BEST IN SHOW - Time spent on lees after secondary fermentation pays huge dividends for English sparkling wine, endowed as it always is with high natural levels of acidity. That's a lesson triumph...(more info)