Somborne Rondo Estate Reserve 2014, Hamshire
This is an impressive wine and has considerable depth. It delivers nuances of plum pudding with spice on the nose, while the palate is rich with a savoury characteristics and ripe cherry.
| Wine | Somborne Rondo Estate Reserve |
| Style | Full bodied red; dark fruit character and spice |
| Variety | Rondo |
| Vintage | 2014 |
| Winemaking | |
| ABV | 11.5% |
| Price | £16.99 |
Pinot Noir 2019, Sharpham, Devon
Bountiful fresh fruit with delicately balanced and warming spice; the Sharpham Pinot Noir 19 lives up superbly to its highly prized predecessors.
Winner of ‘Best Red Wine’ at the IEWA 2020 as well as English & Welsh Wine of the Year Competition 2015, this wine collects awards as if they were horcruxes, regardless of its vintage. Sharpham are one of the few estates to produce quality, award winning, still red wine in England. To our mind, this is best English red on the market!
| Wine | Sharpham Pinot Noir |
| Style | fresh yet rich, medium weight, opulent and warming |
| Variety | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Ageing | 8months in 6th use French oak barrels |
| ABV | 12% |
| Price | £19.00 per bottle |
Simpsons Rabbit Hole Pinot Noir, Kent
A super sophisticated English Pinot which shows a purplish hue, dark cherry aromas backed up by smoky oak and a mocha finish. A truly classy Pinot that will be the central talking point around the dinner table.
It’s truly is remarkable that, owners, Ruth and Charles never set out to make still wines; believing their plot would only be suitable for premium sparkling wine. Nature has a funny way of surprising us!
| Wine | Simpsons Rabbit Hole Pinot Noir |
| Style | light, well integrated tannins and a fruity complexity |
| Variety | Pinot Noir (85% Clone 115, 15% Clone 777) |
| Vintage | 2019 & 2020 available |
| Winemaking | Cask ageing: two year old French oak for four months, MFL Residual sugar: 1.7g/l Acidity: 3.4 g/l PH: 4 |
| ABV | 12.5% |
| Price | £26.00 |
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