The Cottonworth Classic Cuvée is an award winning English Sparkling Wine sourced from perfectly sited, south facing vineyards grown in Hampshire's Test Valley. A blend of the three classic champagne grape varieties - Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier - this English fizz is brimming with soft aromas of apple and citrus top notes, enhanced by a pleasant bready minerality.
The Liddell family have farmed at Cottonworth, in Hampshire's Test Valley, for five generations. They planted their first vines in 2005 and the vineyard has grown ever since, along with Cottonworth’s reputation as a top-drawer sparkling wine producer. Before that, Hugh Liddell, who...
Winemaking in Great Britain can be traced back to Roman times, when every important villa had a garden of vines. However, a succession of winemakers through the ages have struggled to make successful wines in such a marginal climate and commercial winemaking was almost non-existent until Hambledon...
Pinot Meunier is a variety of black wine grape most noted for being one of the three main varieties used in the production of Champagne (the other two are the black variety Pinot noir and the white Chardonnay). Until recently, producers in Champagne generally did not...
Pinot Noir is a noble red wine grape variety that is difficult to grow, but in the right place and under the right climatic conditions it can produce the most delicious in taste, richest and velvety smooth wines in the world....
Chardonnay takes its name from a village in the Mâconnais, but has expanded widely from its Burgundian roots and is now planted around the world. The...
