Blanc de Blancs 2019
£48
Sparkling · 12% · Few left
Lemon curd, Toasted almond, Oyster shell
Sparkling · Non-vintage
Classic Cuvée NV
£34 / 75cl
4.8 (640)The house sparkling wine and the bottle most visitors leave with. Three grapes, three years on the lees, a clean chalky finish.
- Green apple
- Brioche
- Lemon zest
- Chalk
In stock: ships next working day
- Tasting fee back. Buy six bottles on the day and your tasting fee comes off the bill.
- Next-day delivery. Order by 1pm Monday to Thursday; free on 12 bottles or more.
- Corked? We replace it. Any faulty bottle, any vintage, replaced or refunded. Just send a photo.
In the glass
Fine, persistent bubbles; crisp orchard fruit up front, a toasted-bread middle and the saline, chalky finish the slope is known for.
With food
Smoked salmon, fish and chips, anything fried and salty.
How it's made
- Grapes
- Chardonnay 55%, Pinot Noir 30%, Pinot Meunier 15%
- Made
- Traditional method, 36 months on lees, 7 g/l dosage.
- Alcohol
- 11.5%
- Bottle
- 75cl
- Serve
- 6–8°C, in a white-wine glass rather than a flute.
- Production
- 14,000 bottles a year
About this wine
Classic Cuvée is the wine we make the most of and the one we are proudest to pour first. It is a blend of all three traditional sparkling grapes from across the estate: Chardonnay from the upper chalk for lift, Pinot Noir from the 1979 block for body, and a little Pinot Meunier for the soft, bready note that makes it easy to drink on its own.
Each year we keep back around a fifth of the base wine as a reserve, so every bottle carries something of the vintages before it. That is what keeps it consistent from one release to the next, even after a cold English summer.
It spends a minimum of 36 months resting on its yeast in our cellar before we riddle and disgorge it by hand, in batches of 600. The disgorgement date is printed on the back label, so you can see exactly how long yours has had to settle.
“We came for the hour-long tasting and stayed three. The Classic Cuvée is better than the Champagne we brought to our wedding, at half the price.”
