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Nyetimber’s Artisan Approach to Harvest

Harvest has started at Nyetimber. It is the culmination of all the tireless work put in throughout the year, and this year, we are on the path to producing record quantities.

Nyetimber uses only 100% estate-owned and grown grapes from our eleven vineyards across West Sussex, Hampshire, and Kent. This means that we can adapt and adjust our vines throughout the year.

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Our Head Winemaker, Cherie Spriggs and Senior Winemaker, Brad Greatrix, appreciate that each small parcel has a different flavour expression, and by harvesting the vines in each parcel separately, they can give everything the ability to showcase its optimum quality.

 

 

During harvest, the team will carefully pick the grapes by hand, row by row, parcel by parcel, before emptying the fruit into small 15kg baskets to ensure they remain in optimum condition as they reach our pressing centre, located at the Manor Vineyard. Each parcel will then be transported, pressed, and fermented separately, leading to over a hundred blending components.

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Our Head Winemaker, Cherie Spriggs and Senior Winemaker, Brad Greatrix, appreciate that each small parcel has a different flavour expression, and by harvesting the vines in each parcel separately, they can give everything the ability to showcase its optimum quality.

 

 

Cuvee Chérie Multi-Vintage

“There are always a few hurdles to jump over before we can understand the final volume and, most importantly, the quality of the grapes. We closely monitor the crop over two seasons, and the warm spring last year resulted in a fruitful bud initiation. We had only minor and localised frost events in the current season, and the weather was favourable during the flowering period. This year, we will harvest a larger vineyard area of 350 hectares, compared to 325 hectares in 2022, meaning it will be an enormous team effort with over 400 pickers harvesting by hand.”

Nyetimber’s Senior Winemaker Brad Greatrix
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At Nyetimber, we craft our wines according to the traditional method, and Cherie and Brad have complete control over quality, tasting every element through development.  Creating the finest sparkling wines is a long process. It can take up to a decade from harvest to release, so our team are primarily driven by the art of refinement and becoming masters of what they do. A mindset that, combined with Eric Heerema’s vision of becoming a global British luxury brand, subsequently leads Nyetimber to believe the best is yet to come. 

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