2019 Rathfinny, Rosé, Brut, Sussex, England

Aged on lees for at least 36 months and finished with 5g/l dosage, balanced by 7.1g/l acidity.

The onion pink colour of the sparkling rosé came from blending a dash of French oak-aged Pinot Noir—creamy perfume of ripe peach, red cherry and strewed strawberry. More boiled red berries on the saline palate, yeasty red apple peel, and white pepper-spiced grapefruit provide complexity, with bright acidity serving as the spine. Spiced nuts linger until the finish.

Drink 2023 - 2028

Snappy, aloof, pithy. Blood orange and iodine minerality. Bubbles like a thousand tiny, glittering scalpels. It is quite severe and pared back – it tastes as if the dosage is low. If you weren't looking at the colour, it would be easy to mistake this for a Blanc de Blancs. It is a wine that probably needs dishes with intense lemon and salt to coax it from its rigid austerity. 

Drink 2025 - 2032