How English fizz made its way onto wine’s top table – Thursday 23rd April

As recently as 20 years ago, it was rare to find an English sparkling wine on top-end wine lists. Yet despite competing head on with Champagne – a region with 300 years of history on its side – today, English fizz is so reputed that it is rare to find a serious restaurant that doesn’t have one on its list.

While many commentators put the category’s advance down to climate change, that would be to neglect the increased professionalism, skill and ambition of a host of dynamic owners, growers and winemakers who have driven this revolution. St George’s Day provides us with the perfect opportunity to celebrate that success via a tasting of the wines, producers and people who have shaped this journey.

Their stories will be told by longstanding friend – and Member – of the Club, wine consultant, Richard Bampfield MW. Richard has been actively involved in buying, judging – and drinking – these wines for many years. We invite you to join him in this noble pursuit…

The wines we’ll be tasting:
NV Classic Cuvée, Brut, Nyetimber, Sussex
NV Brut Reserve, Gusbourne, Kent
NV Classic Cuvée, Domaine Evremond, Kent
NV Solstice by Danbury Ridge, Essex
MV The Trouble with Dreams, Sugrue, South Downs
2019 Cuvée Minnie Charlotte, Seyval Blanc, Breaky Bottom, Kent
2019 Blanc de Noirs, Harrow & Hope, Buckinghamshire
2019 Grand Reserve, Chapel Down, Kent
2018 Preamble Rosé, Hundred Hills, Oxfordshire
2009 Blanc de Blancs, Ridgeview, Sussex (en magnum)

Thursday 23rd April
St. James’s Room
18:30 – Glass on arrival
19:00 – Masterclass starts
20:30 – Masterclass ends

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