Blanc de Blancs 2020 £349.00
The 2020 vintage was the hottest and driest yet at Hundred Hills. A beautiful spring brought strong bud-burst in mid- April, and despite some mid-May frost scares, the vines progressed into a strong mid-June flowering.
Very little summer rain led to unusually small berries in both chardonnays and pinot noir, and by early September the grapes were ripening well. A cool autumn slowed things down, allowing the small berries to develop unusual intensity and complexity. Harvest began on October 5th and, with excellent, homogeneous ripeness across all vineyard parcels, was far simpler than usual.
The base wine, selected from our Hill Top Chardonnay parcel, underwent alcoholic fermentation in Rousseau oak cask and no malolactic fermentation was conducted to preserve the perfectly balanced acidity. After 6 months aging in cask, the wine was bottled and spent 43 months aging on lees at the winery before being disgorged. This Blanc de Blancs is the fourth vintage produced utilising Chardonnay 95 from our Hill Top parcel, a narrow strip of south facing vines on thin soils.
The 2020 vintage was the hottest and driest yet at Hundred Hills. A beautiful spring brought strong bud-burst in mid- April, and despite some mid-May frost scares, the vines progressed into a strong mid-June flowering.
Very little summer rain led to unusually small berries in both chardonnays and pinot noir, and by early September the grapes were ripening well. A cool autumn slowed things down, allowing the small berries to develop unusual intensity and complexity. Harvest began on October 5th and, with excellent, homogeneous ripeness across all vineyard parcels, was far simpler than usual.
The base wine, selected from our Hill Top Chardonnay parcel, underwent alcoholic fermentation in Rousseau oak cask and no malolactic fermentation was conducted to preserve the perfectly balanced acidity. After 6 months aging in cask, the wine was bottled and spent 43 months aging on lees at the winery before being disgorged. This Blanc de Blancs is the fourth vintage produced utilising Chardonnay 95 from our Hill Top parcel, a narrow strip of south facing vines on thin soils.
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Blanc de Blancs 2020
6 x Blanc de Blancs 2020
The warm and dry 2020 vintage has produced a wine with an immense concentration of citrus fruit flavours, and more specifically the satisfying oily, waxy quality of an immensely ripe lemon’s zest. There’s a sweet creaminess and toastiness introduced by oak casks too that combined with the fruit brings up memories of lemon meringue pie. Throughout all of this is a freshness and mysterious minerality that can be found in wines produced from chalky terroir.
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