rom our Vine to your Celebration - extending the happiness you feel at the popping of that cork, is our driving passion! It's the intimate opportunity you give to us when you select our wine, a chance for us to contribute something special by adding a little extra sparkle to your occasion, whatever it may be, that drives our commitment to excellence in business. High ambition indeed, so why else should you choose English Oak Sparkling Wine?
Perhaps because in a world obsessed with ‘bigger is better’, our planting and wine making remains on a scale where the character sealed
Extending the happiness you feel at the popping of that cork, is our driving passion!
inside every individual bottle still matters.
With English Oak Sparkling Wine, you are assured that the vineyard owners themselves have participated with personal loving care and attention in the creation of every bottle.
Perhaps it’s in the terroir, carefully selected
before planting to ensure our vines thrive and produce quality. Our Cru, the landscape in which our vineyard is planted in the beautiful Purbeck region, forms a natural bowl, sheltering the vines and catching every drop of sunshine for optimum ripening. The soil is particularly rich and fertile, the Dorset air clean, the climate mild, creating wines of distinct English Oak character. Our elegant Blanc de Blanc is crafted exclusively from Chardonnay vines located in our vineyard's premier aspect.
Perhaps it’s because from the outset, we understood that diversity is key to character in a wine of distinctive quality. In our 23,000 vine, 23 acre vineyard, a variety of 14 different Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay clones and rootstocks have been carefully and deliberately selected to emulate the complex and interesting blends which characterise the finest Champagnes.
Perhaps it’s our commitment to mirror closely the traditional méthode Champenoise wine making process, where concern for quality always overrides quantity. Starting with careful site selection and a commitment to low density planting, we ensure careful picking by hand and follow this with gentle pressing in a traditional vertical press where slow, progressive and regular pressure is applied to extract only the best Cuvee. Great care is taken at every step of the wine making process, the wine is aged on the lees beyond the minimum permitted time.
Ultimately, after all our personal attentive care in vine selection, planting, picking and pressing, perhaps it’s our wisdom in selecting a winemaker of exceptional skill and reputation in Dermot Sugrue to create for you the perfect blend of consistent superb flavour and bouquet.
Possibly it's the reassuring comfort and sense of involvement you get from dealing directly with the vineyard when you make your next purchace and the satisfaction gained from supporting your local economy and reducing carbon miles.
Whatever it is, our ultimate passion is to add a little something to your special moment. So let the celebration commence - enjoy our wine!
Our Wine
Engelmann Cuvee 2009
The evergreen Engelmann Oak grows 10m tall and is the northernmost species of subtropical oak. Engelmann Cuvee is equally the perfect all year round sparkling accompaniment. From finest grapes grown in this boutique vineyard, strictly limited production blends classic Chardonnay’s citrus brigh...
Chinkapin Rose 2009
The deciduous Chinkapin Oak, known for its sweet acorns, catches the eye with a classic rounded crown towering 50m tall. Crafted from the finest grapes grown in this boutique vineyard, Chinkapin Rose seductively demands equal attention, with a glamour derived from it’s distinctive blush signature....
San Gabriel Blancs De Blanc 2009
The San Gabriel oak thrives in cool clear crisp and light north American highland air. From the finest grapes grown in this boutique Purbeck vineyard, San Gabriel Blancs de Blanc occupies a similar high point, being crafted exclusively from Chardonnay grapes grown in the vineyard’s premier aspect....
Our process | Learn more about our San Gabriel Blancs De Blanc 2009
Case of Engelmann
6 bottles of your favourite blend at a great saving. Our Premier Cuvee's cepage is 54% Chardonnay, 11% pinot Noir and 35% Pinot Meunier. In the preparation of our wine, we take great care to emulate 'Methode Traditionnelle', using 14 different clones/rootstocks to mimic the typical French practice o...
Case of Chinkapin
6 bottles of your favourite blend at a great saving. Our Rose cepage is 51% Chardonnay, 16% pinot Noir and 33% Pinot Meunier. In the preparation of our wine, we take great care to emulate 'Methode Traditionnelle', using 14 different clones/rootstocks to mimic the typical French practice of blending ...
Case of San Gabriel
6 bottles of your favourite blend at a great saving. Our Blanc de Blanc is of particular significance, crafted exclusively from 100% Chardonnay grapes harvested from the best aspect of our vineyard, which traps optimum sunshine and offers most protection to the vines. Perhaps more than any other...
Menage a trois
A truly delicate threesome. One each of our blends. It's wicked! Our Premier Cuvee's cepage is 56% Chardonnay, 9% pinot Noir and 35% Pinot Meunier. Our Rose is belended in the same manner, followed by the addition of precisely the right quantity of red wine, set aside from our own vineyard, to achie...
