TheWHITEFROMWHITE2018Magnum

A perfect and special accompaniment to any of your Christmas shindigs. Impressive and delicate.

Back in the annus mirabilis of 2018, when vineyard yields across Europe were through the roof, the harvest at Burge’s Field came to an end and, despite having loaded up all our grape supply contracts to the hilt, there were still 10 tonnes of beautiful clean Chardonnay on the vines. Now there are few things with as short a shelf-life as ripe grapes on a vine so Zam rang every winery in England trying to sell them but everyone was full to bursting… apart from Hambledon a few miles away in the Meon Valley – they were taking delivery of two milk tankers from Holland the next week. A swap deal was quickly arrived at and, a full two weeks after the end of the main harvest, we delivered all ten tonnes to the winery and in return would recieve a proportion back as finished wine whenever it was ready – and now it is… Rather sooner than you would imagine for a chardonnay-only blend, after just 5 years and two months on the lees, it is ready and raring to go – a little bottled memento of that astonishing year when quality and quantity coincided! It is what the French would call a blanc de blanc – a white wine made from white grapes so we’ve called it WHITE FROM WHITE 2018.