Saffron Grange Sparkling Rosé

An English Sparkling Wine from Essex!

One to try if you like...Champagne

£28.99

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Description

The Saffron Grange Sparkling Rose is made from a blend of 50% Pinot Noir, 30% Pinot Meunier and 20% Seyval Blanc.  This wine has been made using the traditional method.  Therefore, you can expect a delicious, youthful wine, that has been made in the same was as your favourite bottle of Champagne – but is from Essex!  In addition, this wine has far fewer “wine miles” than wines from Champagne.

First and foremost, you’ll notice that this wine is a gorgeous salmon pink colour.  This wine is bursting with fragrant lychee and rose petals on the nose. The palate is abundant with redcurrants and summer fruits balanced with a crisp, refreshing acidity.  Undoubtedly, a fabulously moreish wine!

The Saffron Grange Sparkling Rose is just one of the wines from the Saffron Grange vineyard.  Want to see the whole Saffron Grange range?  Click here.

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Additional information

Weight 1 kg

Wine at a glance

  • Size: 75cl
  • Alc Vol: 12%
  • Vintage: 2019
  • Grape: 50% Pinot Noir, 30% Pinot Meunier and 20% Seyval Blanc
  • Region: Essex
  • Special Features: Vegan

About the vineyard

Saffron Grange

On discovering the gentle, South-facing slopes just outside the market town of Saffron Walden, Paul Edwards, owner of Saffron Grange, worked with specialist consultants to analyse the soil.

This work revealed the land, when combined with the unique climate and topography of the region, was perfectly suited to growing grapes for truly premium quality sparkling wines.

The vineyard sits on the same chalk seam that runs all the way from Northern France’s renowned wine regions, up through Sussex and into Essex.

100 million years ago, the land was deeply submerged by tropical seawater teaming with macroscopic, calcareous algae and shellfish from which decaying fragments very slowly deposited to create a deep, porous chalk bed. In more recent times a thin overlying clay-loam soil developed on the surface which just covers the flinty, upper chalk.

This rare soil formation perfectly combines with the unique climate in this little pocket of England to create excellent conditions to grow grapes.

In wet weather it provides excellent drainage, whilst holding enough moisture during the dry season to encourage the grapes’ flavour development ahead of harvest.

Centuries ago, fields upon fields of crocuses grew across Essex and Suffolk, making Saffron Walden a global centre for Saffron production.

Today, the same unique soil that enabled the crocus to flourish here is the key to growing the highest quality grapes that make Saffron Grange’s range of premium sparkling wines.

It is Paul’s vision that Saffron Grange will help revive this valuable land for generations to come.

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Please note - every effort is taken to ensure the vintage displayed on this page is the vintage supplied, but due to constantly refreshed stock the vintage supplied may vary.

This product contains sulphites