New Hall Vineyards Single Estate Bacchus 2023
New Hall Vineyards has 40 hectares under vine and one of the largest plantings of the Bacchus variety in the UK. Winemaker Piers Greenwood has won the prestigious UK Winemaker of the Year Award in 2013, 2015 and 2016 and his highly acclaimed and award-winning wines showcase English Wine at its best. Bacchus is a grape that needs to be picked before becoming over-ripe to retain its intense and distinctive grapey flavours. The vineyard comprises London clay soils, from the Tertiary age, with chalk concealed below the clay deposits. Each of the eight Bacchus plantings were vinified separately to retain each block’s integrity and characteristics, allowing the winemakers a rich palate of Bacchus fruit to establish the final blend. A small portion of the blend was barrel-fermented in third fill French oak, followed by two months’ ageing in barrel, which added texture to the mouthfeel. A rich and flavoursome quintessentially English Bacchus, displaying complex and aromatic notes of grapefruit, pear, peach, lime layered with herbaceous overtones of nettle and cut grass.
