Verre Anglais

It’s a blanc de noir, made with 100 per cent Pinot Noir grapes. Produced in the traditional Champagne method and spending almost two years on the lees, it has a very distinctive flavour. Clean, fresh and full of fruit yet with some additional secondary flavours adding complexity and beautiful balance.

THE STORY OF VERRE ANGLAIS

Verre Anglais provides an answer to the age-old debate as to whether it was the French or the English who invented Champagne.

Dating back to the 16th Century, the French were producing wine and shipping it to England, but the bottles would often explode. The English are known to have then invented a bottle strong enough to contain the sparkling wine, referred to as Verre Anglais (English Glass).

Reportedly, the English were also the first to document the method of adding sugar and yeast to make the wine sparkle. The French then later perfected this method to develop the taste to be something more along the lines of the Champagne we know and love today.

So, Verre Anglais provides the fundamental element in the development of Champagne that the English can rightfully lay claim to and what makes it so different to any other sparkling wine. It has a whole lot of history at its heart.