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GENUINE ROCK STAR WINE!
Alex James, bass player for Blur, cheese maker and the curator of one of the UK’s favourite music, food and drinks events - The Big Feastival – has launched his first English sparkling wine.
Made by the award-winning Furleigh Estate, close to where Alex grew up on Dorset’s Jurassic coast, it’s a classic blend of Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay. Grown on chalk soils, with floral, peach notes and a nutty, biscuity complexity, James said it beat some of the world’s finest Champagne in a blind taste test when he was looking for the ideal sparkling wine to add to his Britpop range, which includes cider and will soon extend to other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Alex James:
“These are the golden years of British wine making and Furleigh Estate has knocked it out the park with this one – a home-grown world-beater, perfect for good times and any occasion. It makes a great aperitif or celebration wine, paired with seafood, charcuterie and particularly cheese: serve chilled or over ice when it’s really sunny.”
Matthew Jukes, Vineyard Magazine
“Britpop galivants along, high-fiving every taste bud it encounters, and it does this with style, infectious excitement and, hidden beneath the surface, extraordinary skill, too.”
Chardonnay (40%); Pinot Noir (40%); Pinot Meunier (20%).
Produced on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage site. Soil is Thorncombe Sand, a green sand similar to Kimmeridge Sand found in the Chablis Region. Produced from vines planted in 2006, harvested with minimum intervention to bring out the terroir, it has minimal additives and no oak. Time and temperature are used to stabilise the blend rather than chemicals.
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