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Bought directly from Wiston Estate and is currently held in bond at London City Bond Eton Park, where it is cellared in ideal conditions and for same day deliveries small quantities are held in our London offices in a top of the range Eurocave
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2 × 75cl - 60+ from 15th Sep We keep some stock in our London Warehouse. Large volumes take 24 hours from our out of London warehouse.
Wiston Estate began its journey in to English Sparking Wines with the planting of a 6.5 hectare vineyard in 2006, making the first wines in 2008. They planted a south-east facing escarpment on the chalk hills of West Sussex, where the topsoil is only 10-30 cms deep above the solid chalk. These thin soils on top of chalk promote tiny yielding vines, giving concentration in the grapes which absorb that chalky mineral character, much as is seen in the Côte des Blancs in Champagne. The Goring family have been custodians of the estate since 1743, just 6 miles inland from the sea, north of Worthing, the sea having a moderating effect on the vineyards microclimate. An additional 3.5 hectares were planted in 2017 to the classic varieties of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and Meunier giving them now an annual production of around 50,000 bottles. From the early days Dermot Sugrue, former Nyetimber head winemaker, helped them produce some of the best wines, installing a Coquard press and fermenting some of the wines in barrel to encourage better acidity integration in the finished sparkling wine. From a tiny beginning Wiston is now a large winery, as they are also contract winemakers for many small growers. From 2021 Marcus Rayner-Ward, formerly assistant to Dermot has been head winemaker.
Weather in 2014: A dream year for UK vineyards with little frost, very good flowering weather, a cool wet August, but warm September and October. Most growers had very good crops with excellent sugars and acids. Still wines very good and sparklers up to the high quality of 2009. Total harvest 6.32 m bottles off 1,506 hectares.
Technical Information:
Grape Varieties: 65% Pinot Noir & 35% Meunier
Lees Ageing: 4.5 years
Dosage: 6 g/l
Bottling date: July 2015
Disgorged: 7th December 2021
Fermentation: Fermented in a mixture of five and six year old Burgundy oak barrels.
Drink: Now to 5 years
Tasting Note: The fruit from the 2014 harvest was of exceptional quality and the resulting wine has evolved into an excellent example of Blanc de Noir, abundant with complex character and intensity of flavour. Aromas of lemon cake and macadamia nut deliver an inviting a sense of opulence. A round and weighty texture on the palate, abound with notes of rhubarb, dried orange and greengage. Further finesse shows through on the long finish, with hints of Himalayan pink salt and electric freshness, a subtle note of sweetness of Braeburn apple. Undeniable potential to age further.
The Wiston Estate has been owned and managed by the Goring family since 1743. It took Pip Goring, wife of current owner Harry Goring, three decades to convince her husband to turn the family's turkey production into a winery. The first vines were planted in 2006 on the chalky soils of the South Downs - a land with all the hallmarks of the famous Côte des Blancs - and their 16 acres of vineyard are spread over a 6,000 acre estate.
Wiston use no herbicides on their soil and still utilise the traditional Coquard press, one of only four outside of France and the only one of its kind in the UK. With a large surface area and exceptionally gentle pressing, the Coquard enables extraction of the very highest quality juice and combined with Wiston's minimum intervention winemaking, the end product best reflects its vineyard origin and the characteristics of the vintage. Now led by famous winemaker Dermot Sugrue, Wiston are one of the frontrunners in the English sparkling wine industry.
Wiston Through The Years
1743 - Elizabeth Fagge, heiress of Wiston House, marries her neighbour, Sir Charles Matthew Goring. 1760 - Their 16-year-old son, Charles Goring, plants Chanctonbury Ring, a circle of beech trees that now crowns Wiston Estate. 1828 - Aged 85, Charles writes a poem of thanks that he lived long enough to see Chanctonbury Ring full grown. He dies the following year. 1849 - The Reverend John Goring, Charles’s son, grows the Estate to around 20,000 acres. 1926 - The Goring family moves out of Wiston House to allow it to be leased, following death duties in 1905 and 1924, which led to the sale of 40% of the estate. Wiston House today is leased to the Foreign Office (FCDO). 1940 - John Goring, one of the last men to escape Dunkirk, returns to England to modernise the Estate and join national efforts towards self-sufficiency. 1972 - Harry Goring returns from South Africa with his new bride, Pip, to take over the management of the estate. 2006 - Richard Goring, Harry and Pip’s son, and his wife Kirsty return to the Estate from Canada. The first vineyard on the Estate is planted with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier. 2008 - An original Coquard wine press is installed at North Farm. The press, made in France, is the first of its kind to be imported to the UK. 2011 - Harry and Pip Goring hand over the management of the Estate to Richard, their son, and his wife Kirsty. 2017 - The second vineyard on the Estate is planted with exclusively Chardonnay vines. 2021 - Wiston Estate wins ‘Winery of the Year’ for the third time.
Cellar Master: Marcus Rayner
Winery Location: South Downs | West Sussex, England
Annual Production (bottles): 250,000 on average
Winemaker History at Wiston Estate:
Marcus Rayner - September 2022 to current Marcus worked alongside Dermot Sugrue for 4 years and recently returned from a stint in Champagne, working with Dermot’s former mentor Jean Manuel Jacquinot.
Dermot Sugrue - 2006 to September 2022 Under Sugrue's stewardship, the West Sussex-based vineyard won ‘Winery of the Year’ at the WineGB awards in 2018, 2020 and 2021. The talented winemaker will now focus on his sparkling wine label ‘Sugrue South Downs’, which he runs with his fiancé Ana Ðogic.
Expert Reviews
96/100
Anne Krebiehl MW
“A hint of narcissus fleets before the notions of Red Delicious apple, with a lovely edge of lime zest, nougat and salted shortbread start to unfold on the nose. The palate comes in with exquisite creaminess and smoothest foam that underlines the lovely concentration of flavour, the beautiful depth, the well-proportioned roundness. Such an umami finish. Gorgeous now but will evolve. ”
17.5/20
Tamlyn Currin
“Rich, brocade, and tasting and smelling so intensely of orange that it's almost marmalade. Trace of toast. Long and deep. This is stunning. Spiced Seville-orange bitterness, but the roaring depth of that fruit and its acidity is magnificent. Don’t drink it too cold. This is a fire-sipping wine. Bring on the Comté.”
91/100
Neal Martin
“Disgorged in December 2020, the 2014 Blanc de Noirs rested on the lees for nine months before its five-year maturation sur lattes. It has a burnished silvery hue. The bouquet is unashamedly fruit-driven, featuring lemon thyme, grilled walnut and light orange blossom scents. The palate is well balanced, quite full and flavorsome, offering orange peel, light saline notes and red apples mixed with a touch of melon on the finish. One of Wiston's more intellectual sparklers. ”
