Pelegrim Beats Champagne
In Blind Tasting
We are thrilled that in a blind tasting conducted by Neil Walker, founder of The English Vine wine company, sensory perception expert Dr Heber Rodrigues of East Sussex’s Plumpton College and Dr Nicolas Depetris-Chauvin of The Geneva School of Business, Pelegrim came out on top. Blind tasting results: Westwell Pelegrim NV (338) / English Sparkling Wine Nyetimber Classic Cuvée (329) / English Sparkling Wine Hambledon Classic Cuvée (321) / English Sparkling Wine Lanson Black Label Brut NV (317) / French Champagne Laurent Perrier La Cuvée Brut NV (291) / French Champagne Ridgeview Bloomsbury NV (278) / English Sparkling Wine Vueve...
Winemaker Adrian On His
Love of Sparkling Wine
There are so many things I love about making sparkling wine. With the traditional bottle method, the slow process is definitely one element I find compelling, but I also love the myriad different ways that we use to make wines at Westwell. Hopefully, people have tried the Petulant Nature wine we make from Ortega - this is made in the style of a Pet Nat with a single fermentation but is bottled towards the end of that fermentation so that it completes in bottle - trapping carbon dioxide and creating a gentle fizz. It’s a really exciting way of making...
Compost &
Nettle Tea
If you’ve ever wondered what becomes of all those grass clippings that go into your green waste garden bin at home - well - some of them end up at Westwell - please thank your lawns from us. Over time, older vines will have depleted the nutrients in the soil, so it’s important to replace these. We do this using the compost from our local green recycling centre in East Malling, which is about 15 miles from the vineyard. They take the council green waste, i.e. garden prunings and grass cuttings and turn it into lovely black, crumbly compost. It’s...
Westwell Featured on
The Wine Show
As part of the Big English Wine Good Friday, wine maestro Joe Fattorini hosted a live tasting - describing our Ortega as “a cracking wine” and our Pelegrim as “absolutely glorious”. Watch the full film below.
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