LOVE-YOU-LONG-TIME

Methode Traditionelle HAWKE’S BAY 2016

A long time in the making. This is one of the most challenging wines we have ever made. Imagine this... grapes picked early, when acid is too high and sugar too low to make normal wine, fermented and put in the bottle cloudy with a little sweet reserve, then fermented for the second time to make bubbles... madness. Left in the dark, cool cellar to gain flavour, balance and length before it’s disgorged, corked and labelled, FOUR YEARS LATER! But jingers it’s a lovely drink. A no-expense spared homage to great French fizz