Chapel Down Kit’s Coty Bacchus 2018 English White Wine

The Chapel Down Kit’s Coty Bacchus 2018 is a very ripe style of Bacchus and has lychee, peach, and ripe melon aromas with background oak influence. The palate is rich and generous with more tropical fruit flavours and a long, crisp finish. An ideal pairing to white crab meat salad, asparagus risotto and lightly smoked fish. Kit’s Coty vineyard is a 95 acre vineyard on the North Downs of Kent. The southerly aspect ensures the vines capture the sunshine all year long while the warm, free-draining chalk soils provide the perfect terroir for producing well balanced, intensely flavoured fruit. Restricting yields and maintaining vine balance allow vines to fulfil their potential, producing fruit that truly express their identity and the unique qualities of the soil. Josh Donaghay-Spire, Chapel Down’s Winemaker, loves to experiment and this Bacchus, harvested by hand in late September and the grapes whole bunch pressed before undergoing wild fermentation in third and fourth use French oak barrels for nine months, adds complexity and richness to the wine. Chapel Down is part of the Wine Garden of England and one of the country’s largest wine producers. The Kits Coty brand is their premium brand, are much harder to come by and limited by volume.