Wines In The Press

Fizz

Camel Valley Cornwall Rosé Brut 2012

Ridgeview Grosvenor Cuvée Merret Blanc de Blancs 2011

This week Olly Smith suggested to readers that they should “Celebrate St George's Day with a glass of English fizz.” The Mail on Sunday's wine man recommended two GWW fizzes - Camel Valley Cornwall Rosé Brut 2012 and Ridgeview Grosvenor Cuvée Merret Blanc de Blancs 2011.

Olly called  Camel Valley’s Rosé “spendidly summery” while saluting the “award-winning zesty glory” of Ridgeview’s Blanc de Blancs.

As Olly says, “my personal collection of English sparkling wine stretches back beyond the year 2000 and I’ve been a believer for many years that we can produce bottles to rival the world’s best fizz.”

Make English bubbly your go-to fizz this St George's Day - it's a great celebratory wine to toast the occasion on its own, but is also a brilliant accompaniment to that other British classic, fish and chips.

White

Trimbach’s Cuvée Frédéric Emile

The Telegraph’s Nick Trend reported back on the joys of a wine-tasting holiday to Alsace in his article Alsace wine tour: In search of the world's greatest white wine.  

He said he was, “full of anticipation because, about 20 years ago, I tasted a wine which, because it was so unexpectedly delicious, has lodged in my memory ever since.” The wine in question was Trimbach’s Cuvée Frédéric Emile which he described as “steely dry” with “an almost ethereal freshness.”

Red

Poliziano Vino Nobile de Montepulciano 2011

Wine Enthusiast magazine has just given this trusty Tuscan a score of 90 points – no surprise for the folks at GWW HQ who have been shouting about it for some time now. Montepulciano is situated in the Tuscan hills on soils with a higher percentage of sand than the limestone-dominant areas of Chianti Classico or Brunello. In the hands of superior producers like Poliziano, the sandy soils and warmer climate here can create ethereal, deeply aromatic wines like this one. It’s rich and well structured, with an intense perfume of juicy, ripe, dark fruits.

By Chris Penwarden