£23.00
Matt Gregory The Red 2022
Region: Leicestershire
Grapes: Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris
Colour: Red
Bottle Size: 75cl
Alcohol: 11%
Vintage: 2022
Vegan friendly
- PRODUCER NOTES
- FARMING & WINEMAKING NOTES
Working as a wine merchant in England for more than 20 years, Matt Gregory eventually started making his own wines in Sussex and in New Zealand, where he worked alongside Theo Coles (of The Hermit Ram in North Canterbury).
Matt?s wines originate both from England and Italy, and are all labelled as ?The English Winemaker?. He has a natural approach to winemaking and allows the different terroirs to express themselves.
The English wines are produced from grapes grown at the organically farmed Walton Brook Vineyard (two hectares, south facing) on the Leicestershire Wolds. Soil includes 200 million year old Jurassic fine grained limestone (mud made up from carbonates of coral and shell) overlain with two million year old glacial deposits featuring limestone, flint and ironstone.
Early in 2022 Matt hard-pruned as he was aiming for a low yield, high quality crop. Spring and Summer was hot and dry which resulted in smaller bunches of grapes with thicker skins than usual, but the warm weather ensured perfect ripeness.
The Red is a combination of 50% Pinot Noir and 50% Pinot Gris, co-fermented. 2/3 of the Pinot Gris were pressed whole bunch and the juice was returned to the tank of de-stemmed grapes. Due to the ripeness of the fruit Matt only plunged the tank once to prevent over extraction. The wine was pressed out after 4 weeks and allowed to go through Malo, then rested in stainless steel on lees for 14 months before bottling. Only 700 bottles produced.
PRODUCER NOTES
Working as a wine merchant in England for more than 20 years, Matt Gregory eventually started making his own wines in Sussex and in New Zealand, where he worked alongside Theo Coles (of The Hermit Ram in North Canterbury).
Matt?s wines originate both from England and Italy, and are all labelled as ?The English Winemaker?. He has a natural approach to winemaking and allows the different terroirs to express themselves.
The English wines are produced from grapes grown at the organically farmed Walton Brook Vineyard (two hectares, south facing) on the Leicestershire Wolds. Soil includes 200 million year old Jurassic fine grained limestone (mud made up from carbonates of coral and shell) overlain with two million year old glacial deposits featuring limestone, flint and ironstone.
Early in 2022 Matt hard-pruned as he was aiming for a low yield, high quality crop. Spring and Summer was hot and dry which resulted in smaller bunches of grapes with thicker skins than usual, but the warm weather ensured perfect ripeness.
FARMING & WINEMAKING NOTES
The Red is a combination of 50% Pinot Noir and 50% Pinot Gris, co-fermented. 2/3 of the Pinot Gris were pressed whole bunch and the juice was returned to the tank of de-stemmed grapes. Due to the ripeness of the fruit Matt only plunged the tank once to prevent over extraction. The wine was pressed out after 4 weeks and allowed to go through Malo, then rested in stainless steel on lees for 14 months before bottling. Only 700 bottles produced.