Want to make Sparkling Wine? It takes time.

2015

Step 1. Choose your site. This would have been the UK's largest vineyard at the time.

Step 3. 2014. Plant 61,000 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines.

 

 

Step 4. Choose a name not including the word 'Pishill.'

Step 5. Wait.

2015

2020

Then

Now

Before

After

Grapes in Mid-August 2020

Hundred Hills Vineyard, Pishill, Oxfordshire.

The first wine is scheduled to be on sale in November 2020.

Judeka Frabianco

Bought last year in Scicli, Sicily.

White PetNat from Frappato.

 

Not all whites from red grapes are as successful as this 'Frabianco' - a 'vino bianco sponatneamente mosso' from Frappato grapes.

Quite rounded and with an interesting aftertaste. Would we rush to buy in bulk? Maybe not but we wouldn't be against another bottle.