Hambledon Premiere Cuvée NV

Name: Hambledon Premiere Cuvée
SKU: 3343417
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

English Quality Sparkling Wine

5.0 / 5 (1 reviews)

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Bronze, Sunday Times Wine Club Vintage Festival, 2019
Silver, Wine GB Awards, 2019

From one of England’s most highly regarded producers of fizz, the Première Cuvée makes a divine celebratory glassful. It’s already received 17.5/20 from Jancis Robinson, who raved about notes of “Seville oranges, spice and meadow hay and shortbread”.

Beyond the Label

Tasting notes

Dried apricots, lemon, vanilla, salted caramel. Immensely complex

Aroma

Seville orange, toasty brioche and hazelnuts. Floral notes

More information

White - Dry
Chardonnay-based blend
Great Britain
Pale gold

12.0% ABV
9.0 Units
750.00 ml
31 December, 2021

As its name suggests, this is the flagship Cuvée from Hambledon – the first English estate to produce wines commercially. That was in the 1950s after the estate’s owner Major-General Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones planted a vineyard in a spare field. A Francophile and a wine lover, he did a good job, and Hambledon’s wines won Golds and were served at important state occasions. Fast forward to the early 2000s, and a new start with a new owner, Ian Kellett. Ian planted Champagne grapes Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, invested in a new winery and brought in one of Champagne’s best chefs de cave as winemaker, Hervé Jestin. Today their wines gain many awards. This Première Cuvée is a superb blend of Chardonnay and Pinots long aged on lees.

"If smell had a sound, this would be a cello: deep, Seville oranges, spice, meadow hay and shortbread" Jancis Robinson MW