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Hambledon Premiere Cuvée NV
English Quality Sparkling Wine
View awards
- 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”.
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
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White - Dry
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Pale gold
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12.0% ABV
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9.0 Units
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750.00 ml
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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.
