Nyetimber Classic Cuvée Sparkling Wine

Nyetimber's head winemaker, Cherie Spriggs, was the first person outside Champagne to be awarded Sparkling Winemaker of the Year in 2018. She was also the first woman to win the accolade.

Classic Cuvee is Nyetimber’s flagship fizz and it's made in the same way as traditional French sparkling, giving it equally complex flavours. Cherie is devoted to impeccably high standards at each stage of production. No wonder this has outperformed some of the finest Champagne in blind tastings.

It has a stream of fine, delicate bubbles and flavours of toasted brioche, golden apple, honey and sweet spice.

Nyetimber are determined that enjoying a glass  should never come at the expense of the land that they cultivate, which is why they’re committed to a sustainable and holistic approach to our land, resources and the carbon footprint involved in producing our outstanding English sparkling wines.

Around 30% of the total Nyetimber estate is natural ‘non-productive’ hedgerows, windbreaks, woods, gardens, ponds and meadows. We create wildlife corridors for larger fauna, and where possible, the vineyard team uses sonar, kites and bird bangers as a gentle way of preventing damage to the fruit.

Since 2011, sheep from a local farm have been used in some vineyard locations to graze the grass as an alternative to mowers in winter.

Pruning waste and pressed grape skins from winemaking are composted and returned to the vineyards as natural fertiliser. Their vineyards are managed on a principle of minimal intervention; vines are treated with fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides only in areas requiring them, and only once other natural methods have been tried. 

Drones are used to map, view and analyse the health of the vines on a block-by-block, row-by-row level so that any intervention can be precisely targeted to the areas that need it. Viewing vines from above can help to pick up diseases or viruses and stop them spreading, thus limiting the need for spraying to specific areas.

They're working towards accreditation with LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming).

The foil cap on each bottle of Nyetimber is made using a plant-derived laminate between two thin layers of aluminium foil, rather than a synthetic polymer.