All Angels Classic Cuvée 2017

Aromas of softly baked pastry from six years lees ageing, decadently complemented by ripe citrus grove and orchard fruit with hints of spice on the palate. Pale straw in colour with signature fine bubbles and length.

Exquisite as an aperitif, and with most foods. Try with luxury fish pie or wild mushroom risotto. This heavenly Cuvée is one for every customer.

South facing, English climate. Total size 6 ha. Prevailing SW winds. Free draining soil with a good deposit of flint - soil warms quickly.

Uniquely historic site of the Roundhead encampment before the first Battle of Newbury, views of iron age forts, Highclere Castle, Newbury racecourse and Coombe Gibbet.

Emphasis on sustainability with as little chemical intervention as possible. Most weeding done mechanically or by hand; weather stations designed to warn on disease risk to minimise unnecessary intervention. No burning of pruning but mulched instead. Mechanical canopy management but hand leaf stripping as well as hand pruning and harvesting. Frost management comprises bougies, frostguards and frost fans. Vineyard mowing minimised to reduced soil compaction and flail mower used only to mulch prunings.

Each of our All Angels Sparkling Wines is hand crafted using the “Traditional Method” for fine Sparkling Wine and Champagne, including secondary fermentation of the wine in bottle.

The wine spent a minimum 6 years ageing on the lees and has been on cork for a minimum 9 months.