You are here:  Home >> Your turn archive >> News from Nyetimber
News from Nyetimber
17 Dec 2004 by JR
George Biswas, UK: Jancis, I know you will be publishing your Christmas sparkling wine recommendations in Saturday’s FT [and in wine news ]. Have you tasted the 1996s from Nyetimber recently? I visited the vineyard last week and they are very excited by the quality of the ‘96s now they have a little bottle age and think that the wines are better than the excellent ‘95s which you rated very highly a while ago. The bad news is stocks of both those vintages are running very low, the next vintage to be commercially available will be the 1998 as the 1997 was a tiny crop due to a late spring frost. If you can get your hands on a...

Sorry, this page is available only to current Purple Pages members. If you're not a member, why not join today and meet a lively community of fellow wine enthusiasts?

If you are already a Purple Pager, please log in.

Contact us | Team Jancis | Site FAQs | Join now | Terms and Conditions | Privacy policy | Site map | RSS
© Copyright 2000-2012 Jancis Robinson