Biddenden Gribble Bridge Dornfelder 2018 English Red Wine

Off dry, light refreshing red, raspberry and summer fruit flavours – an incredibly good value English red wine. Fresh raspberries and summer fruits abound in this refreshing, light red wine. An ideal accompaniment to Slow Braised Beef Cheeks. A dish of this richness and beefiness will need a red fruit wine to deliver that warming ripe punch and the Biddenden Dornfelder 2019 has plenty of brambly fruit to do just that. A slow cooked meat such as this has melt in the mouth meat so a softer, rounder wine will be perfect and the gentle tannins of the Dornfelder will be perfect. It will also go well with Mediterranean style meals. The Biddenden vineyard is Kent’s oldest vineyard still in production and is owned by the Barnes family. The fields are in the High Weald of Kent to the south east of Ashford and soil is primarily clay loam, very different from the chalk soils of the Downs. In the past the farm produced soft and tree fruits but now concentrates on growing grapes. The historic connection with apples also means that alongside wine the estate produces fruit juices and cider. As one of the grape growing pioneers the Barnes family planted a range of varieties including Ortega and Bacchus but also red varieties such as Dornfelder and Gamay.