Winemaker Adrian Pike commented on Ortega Skin Contact 2020 "The 2020 harvest was an interesting one. Yields were down but the flavours were up. As a result, we only have just over 1000 bottles produced of the 2020 Skin Contact. This year, it’s fantastically textural with a delicious intensity. It’s full of fruit in the mid palate and finishes with the signature Westwell orange peel and salinity". The Skin Contact cuvee demonstrates the adaptability of this variety (in some vintages Westwell can make up to 5 different styles with Ortega from the same block). 120 bottles from CWM. Be quick! Fermented on skins slowly using indigenous yeasts, then aged in old Burgundy barrels for 9 months before bottling - unfined & unfiltered.

A really excellent example of Bacchus grape and how well suited it is to the English climate. Lowish alcohol but loads of bright citrus flavours and great length too. A summery joy.

Something of Pouilly-Fuisse in the style here, a banana-custard rich nose, but on the palate linear, mineral and refined. Elegant, broad and complex, so unlike other English chardonay. Super-premium estate sited in the warmest, driest corner of England, near the coast and Malden (of posh salt fame). This south-facing ridge enjoys an exceptionally long warm growing season - so rare in England. Our old friend John Atkinson, Master of Wine, who is an expert on cool-climate viticulture, is enthusiastically involved. Winemaker is Liam Idzikowski who boasts long experience in English wine-making; backed by owners the Bunker family, the winery is an astonishing no-expense-spared jewel in the crown for English wine.

Silver IEWA Winner. Produced from the oldest & largest Bacchus plantation in England, this internationally acclaimed wine shows intense aromas of elderflower, apple & conference pear. On the palate, tropical fruit flavours of melon & pineapple prevail leading to an elegant, crisp finish.

From an exceptional south-facing single vineyard set high on the North Downs. Without question the best still English wine I have tasted. It’s mouth-fillingly fine with rounded, supple peach-like fruit and an ever so slightly toasty, vanilla finish thanks to nine months in French oak. If you like serious white Burgundy or Chablis, you’ll love this.

A crisp, dry, fruit-driven white showing pear, grapefruit and lemon with notes of honeysuckle and English hedgerow on the nose. Supple roundness with a slight saline minerality gives a mouthwatering, refreshing finish.

Pelegrim means Pilgrim in middle English (circa 12th century) and recognises the history of our forbearers that walked the Pilgrim’s Way above our vineyard for centuries on their final leg to Canterbury. This wine replicates this tradition in how the grapes are grown, selected and fermented. The Pelegrim NV is a traditional bottle-fermented sparkling wine that is made from Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay with reserve wines from previous vintages to give further complexity and a consistent extra dry non-vintage style. The wines are lees-aged in bottle for 36 months to give depth and biscuity aromas which only bottle-fermentation can deliver.

Made from unusually old vines by the charming Charles Humphries. Fresh and nettly with good fruit and character.

Quintessential English Bacchus with a twist of the new world, made with fruit from various vineyard locations on the estate, including some of the oldest vines in the country. Intensely aromatic with grapefruit, pear, peach, lime, and herbaceous vegetal notes of nettle and cut grass. rich flavoursome mouthfeel with slight savoury notes on the finish due to partial barrel fermentation.