Sharpham Little Bee Wild Ferment Pinot Gris

While the majority of the fruit for this wine still comes from Sharpham Estate near Totnes in Devon, the wine is now made over the river at the winery's new home, Sandridge Barton.

From the banks of the River Dart Pinot Gris thrives in a relatively warm microclimate. Essentially a natural wine, the juice spends 3 weeks on skins before wild fermentation. An exciting wine which highlights the potential for England to develop its own distinctive styles of classic varietals. Pinot Gris is a grape we expect to see more and more of in the UK.

The wine has been made in the skin-contact, or orange style, this helps to extract colour and texture before fermentation. The result is a hazy, elegantly pale orange wine with complex stone fruit flavours and vibrant acidity.

The nose has vibrant notes of nectarine, green citrus and fennel. The palate is bursting with sour stone fruit, and it shows taught, pithy grapefruit like texture with a touch of spice and gentle tannins. The finish is clean and refreshing.