The country’s leading blending house has announced the release of a new vintage of its award-winning flagship wine, the Vintage Reserve Brut, from 2014. The wine is now on-sale via Digby’s website and through itsUK distributor, Swig Wines.
The 2014 vintage saw the highest yields for English wines to date, with incredible ripeness across the board. Digby’s portfolio of vineyard partners proved no exception, with phenomenal concentration seen across all three grape varieties: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.
Digby’s 2014 Vintage Reserve Brut is led by Chardonnay grown on greensand, like all of its flagship wines,showing racy acidity and a precise structure befitting extensive ageing – the hallmark of Digby wines. Grapestaken from Digby’s Hampshire vineyard site provide energy and structure, warmed by the glowing confidence of those from its Dorset location. 12% of the blend comprises Chardonnay grapes from Sussex and Kent, which supply a purring sophistication thanks to mature and warm vineyard sites, for additional breadth and beauty. This 12% was fermented in oak barrels which, when combined with the purity afforded by the stainless steel applied to all other grapes, culminates in a lively, rounded and satisfyingly savoury wine.
Thanks to such strong ripeness in the 2014 vintage, Digby also produced a Vintage Rosé Brut (no longer available) and a Blanc de Noirs Brut (yet to go on sale). The Vintage Reserve Brut has spent eight years on lees for notable nuance and depth.
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