29317387 M&S Collections Hattingley English Sparkling Wine Brut 2018

2018 was a great year for the English wine industry with a nearly perfect growing season - a very cold and wet winter that delayed bud burst, ideal conditions at flowering and a record-breaking long summer, resulted in high yields and excellent quality fruit with good concentration of sugars and balancing acidity.

The hand harvested grapes were whole bunch pressed to extract top quality juice. A portion of the total blend was barrel fermented in old white Burgundy barrels and partial malolactic fermentation took place in order to soften the wine's natural acidity. It spent over 3 years ageing on lees in bottle in order to gain extra roundness and character, before disgorgement.

A portion of the blend was fermented and aged for 7 months in used French oak barrels