Stockist/Retailer: nyetimber.com

(2026)

This beautifully packaged pink is a limited summer edition of Nyetimber's rosé. I am not 100% certain if it is the same wine as their regular N.V. rosé, also composed of estate-grown Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.

This is mostly made from fruit of the 2022 harvest with 14% reserve wines from 2021. It was bottled with 9.5g/l dosage after three years resting on the lees. Its light to medium pink colour suggests fruitiness, and indeed raspberry and redcurrant run into pomegranate aromatically, with a hint of cedar and biscuit adding some depth. In the mouth the red fruit has a pulpy sweetness, but this really is beautifully balanced, citrus acid with a twist of bitter lemon or grapefruit giving quite a gastronomic, grown up personality that is still so easy to sip, and very appealing.

(2025) Nyetimber's 1086 is their prestige cuvée, matured on the lees for almost nine years and bottled with 9.4g/L of residual sugar. The 2014 blend is 50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir with no Pinot Meunier. Eleven years on from vintage and there is a hint of burnished gold to the colour, and an incessent stream of minuscule bubbles. Aromas are toasty, with biscuit and brioche, but a clear line of lime too, and something stony and mineral. In the mouth it is riven by rippling, sheer acidity, but there is texture and weight to balance, again an invigorating lime and lightly saline freshness, with the nutty biscuit tones underpinning. An extremely stylish release with intensity and yet a natural, unforced elegance and clarity.

(2025) The Rosé bottling of 1086 is a blend of 72% Chardonnay and 28% Pinot Noir. Despite having been aged on the lees for over 60 months it is remarkably fresh and zippy. Small red fruit like redcurrant and rose-hips mingle with delicate floral highlights and a hint of brioche and vanilla. It pours with a lively and persistent mousse, a dosage of 9g/l giving it enough easy charm, but the spine of acidity and clarity of fruit is lovely, sweetness and a gastronomic berry tartness freshening the finish.

(2024) For me, the best vintage so far of one of Nyetimber's flagship vintage wines. Ambition in the English wine industry is a good thing surely, and companies like Nyetimber, who offer prestige cuvées at prices that edge toward Champagne's elite, have their heads well above the parapet. They are willing to be judged by what's in the bottle, and in this case it is an exceptionally fine sparkling wine from a single vineyard plot of Pinot Noir (73%) and Chardonnay planted on greensand. It spent a full five years on the lees, and was bottled with 9.5g/l of residual sugar. The colour has a hint of gold, the mousse is fine, and aromatically it flits between raspberry and nutty russet apples, yeasty autolysis and lime and lemon zestiness. On the palate there is that zippy, streaking freshness, but there is fruit sweetness too, quite intense, absolutely concentrated and direct, but the combination of the long ageing and thrilling acidity gives a long, energising finish.

(2024) Nyetimber's Classic Cuvée is a multi-vintage blend of the three main Champagne grapes, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. Handily, typing in the code from the back label into the Nyetimber website will reveal the precise composition of your bottle: mine has 9.4g/l dosage, was disgorged in April after almost four years on the lees, and has plenty of reserve wines in the blend: based on 2019 (77%), it also boasts reserves from every year back to 2014. Shimmering light gold, there is a pastry and biscuit character, as well as a bold golden yellow apple and quince. In the mouth it is a juicy, flavourful sparkling wine with fruit that touches on the tropical before being drawn back by English orchard apples and citrus into a balanced finish. Delightful at any time, but this special release to celebrate Team GB's Paris Olympics comes in a special livery for the occasion. Watch the video for more information.

(2024) The 2010 blend is 45% Chardonnay, 44% Pinot Noir and 11% Pinot Meunier, my bottle disgorged January 2020 after almost 10 years on the lees with 9.7gl residual sugar. This is absolutely fresh - in some ways seeming more fresh than the 2013. The foamy cushion of mousse subsides to reveal distinct biscuit and buttery notes to small, redcurrant-like fruit and citrus peel. That toasty element - rarely found in pink sparkling wines - gives a richness and softness on the palate. A much more crisply-focused raspberry and lemon thrust of fruit and acidity asserts on the mid palate, leading the way into a shimmering acid finish, the dosage just softening the edges nicely. At time of review The Wine Society's price of £120 is very keen.

(2024) From a year described as 'temperate', this comes from the best vineyards parcels, composed of 51% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir and 9% Pinot Meunier. It is Brut with 9.4g/l and spent more than five years on the lees in Nyetimber's cellars. There are immediately complex autolytic notes, pastry and a touch of toast, truffle and umami/meaty nuances. In the mouth the mousse is firm and rich, and there's an overall impression of taut minerality. Fruit is lemony and limey, a hint of spice or cedar in there, and the racy line of acidity keeps it keenly focused. A decisive wine that will relax a little more with cellaring, but is racy and thrilling now.

(2024) The new vintage of Nyetimber's Prestige Cuvée is an assemblage, with 14% still Pinot Noir joining a blend of 64% Pinot Noir and 36% Chardonnay. It was fermented in stainless steel, with old oak barrels used to age the red wine portion. It spent almost six years aging on the lees, and was held back an additional three and half years post disgorgement. Peachy-pink in colour, aromas are of raspberry and strawberry, but there's a fascinating nutmeg spice and chestnut background. In the mouth, again raspberry giving a tart, dry appeal, a streak of Seville orange acidity lengthening the finish. The mousse does add a cushion of textural softness, but this is decisive, savoury and complex wine.