Rathfinny Blanc de Noirs Brut 2018, 750ml

Single-site, single-vintage, grower-producer, this is a blend of 85% Pinot Noir, 15% Pinot Meunier, aged for 30 months on its lees before release.
Fermentation: whole-bunched pressed, inoculated with commercial yeast, fermented in stainless steel tanks at 16°C.
Disgorged in September 2023. Dosage: 3.5g/l. Malolactic completed.

Blanc de Noirs is our signature Sussex Sparkling, produced from predominantly Pinot Noir grapes grown and hand-harvested on the Rathfinny Wine Estate.

Tasting Note:

Translucent saffron in colour, delivering an expressive nose of mulberry and almond blossom, a mouth-filling perlage of baked blueberry and russet pear, giving way to a lively clementine finish.